| 500Nitro |
| (.450 member) |
| 12/05/08 02:48 AM |
Re: William Douglass DRs
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About William Douglas double Rifles.
William Douglas sold a bunch of actions to Cape Outfitters in the 1990's. Some of them were made by private individuals or unknowing gunsmiths into double rifles, they were shotgun actions,period. William Douglas never made a double rifle.Only shotguns. They will not continually take the pounding of the 470, or any other high pressure rifle round. They have no 3rd lock. And the Mono block is too thin for the cartridge. You may fire 10 shots, but number 11 is going to be your last.Period.Maybe you will live, probibly not. If you sell this peice of crap, get ready to be sued. They were made in Holland, barrels made in Italy, and assembled in the U.S.A. with no proofs. If there are proofs, someone else stamped them in the U.S.
Call Rigby and they will tell you the same thing, or call Ken Owen, in Tennessee.
Well mine has been shot a fair bit, it is very accurate - and I have not known one that wasn't, it is light, well balanced and easy to carry and doesn't have any of the BS you have above.
I couldn't give a rats arse if the barrels were made in Timuktu, as long as they are good barrels. As as to your references to Holland, Italy, well I think they have a long, long history of making fine firearms - especially barrels -
so in my view that could be seen as a positive.
BTW, mine has proof marks - UK one's.
And if you want to sue me, go ahead, we don't have fucked up laws in this country like you do in the US so you wouldn't get very far. And finally, when I buy a gun, it gets the once over check from the gunsmith and if anything needs doing, it gets done then and there, before I go and stand in front of dangerous game.
And finally, if or when I sell a gun, Unlike some US sellers, I tell the potential buyer of ALL the pros and cons that I know of so no hidden agendas or issues come back to bite me - or the buyer.