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livinus
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Reged: 12/06/06
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are express rifles accurate?
14/06/06 08:35 AM

Being a new member to this forum, I would like to discuss a recent article in the French magazine "Armes de chasse". This article concerns the accuracy of new over/under rifles in the 2000-4000euro price range. The rifles tested were "shelf" specimens from various gun dealers, not the extra selected ones that gun writers often receive for test reports. The rifles were tested from a sitting bench with 3 different brands of ammo (RWS, Norma and Sellier et Bellot).
Distance 50 meters, open sights.
In Europe the accepted norm for double rifles is 5.0cm at 50 meters. Not all rifles met that criterium however.
As could be expected, most rifles did best with a specific brand of ammo, but at least one rifle proved exceptionaly acurate with all three brands of ammo. Here are the results, in order of merrit.(with smallest/largest groups) Sabatti Luxe (1,0-2.2cm!);Verney-Carron (0.7-5.5cm);Fabarm ((0.7-6.0cm)
;Zoli Focus (1.0-9.5cm);Fair Safari (2.5-11.0cm);Beretta 686 (2.5-14.5cm);Chapuis Super Orion (4.5-8.0cm);Blazer 2000(3.5-11.0cm);Browning 525 (4.5-13.0cm);Heym 2005 (5.0-14.5cm). Let me know what you think of these results.

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are express rifles accurate?	livinus	14/06/06 08:35 AM
Re: are express rifles accurate?	mehulkamdar	28/06/06 02:50 PM
Re: are express rifles accurate?	DUGABOY1	17/06/06 07:24 AM
Re: are express rifles accurate?	333Jeffery	17/06/06 10:35 AM
Re: are express rifles accurate?	DUGABOY1	18/06/06 04:45 AM
Re: are express rifles accurate?	Grizzly	18/06/06 09:01 AM
Re: are express rifles accurate?	NE450No2	18/06/06 03:43 PM
Re: are express rifles accurate?	unspellable	24/06/06 04:02 AM
Re: are express rifles accurate?	DUGABOY1	24/06/06 08:44 AM
Re: are express rifles accurate?	bulldog563	14/06/06 09:30 AM
Re: are express rifles accurate?	unspellable	17/06/06 06:59 AM

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