DOUBLE GUN OWNERS (please respond as you would wish):

-- how many double rifles do you now own (please specify s-by-s, o-u or drilling), and in what calibres;

1: SxS Chapuis, in 9.3x74r
-- how many double rifles did you previosuly own (please specify barrel configuration and calibres);

None
-- do you hunt with your double rifles; if so, what type of game; if not, why not;

Yes: black bear, boar, whitetail deer,
-- how long after you took up the sport of shooting/hunting did you catch the double gun 'bug/disease' (no known cure):

Always had the double gun disease. Actually double rifles and double shotguns is what brought me into shooting smokeless powder, I was a dyed in the wool black powder man until I got into double guns. Other actions just don't do it for me.

-- do you also shoot smooth bore doubles; if so, in what configuration (s-by-s or o-u) and bores;

Oh yeah!

Shoot a SxS, old French 12 guage, beautiful, made by a Seytre. And as a yound lad, a Stevens 311!!!!

-- do you hunt with your smooth bore doubles; if so, what type of birds/game;

If there were any wild upland birds in the mid-Atlantic region... Grew up shooting ruffed and spruce grouse in Alaska. Love pheasants!! Also those REAL wild chukkars in Hawaii, not that tame preserve crap.

-- do you also own other actions (turnbolt, single, lever, pump, etc.); if so, in what calibres;

I have an old Ruger 77 30-06 that I am currently fixing up. Nice rifle for a bolt...

-- would you say that you have followed the natural progression of 'less-but-better' over the years;

Yep. Getting rid of that old crap, and working down to only about 3-4 guns, two rifles and two shotguns.

-- the three top double gun makers are;

Gaston Rennette, Purdy, Boss

-- the three top double gun hunters/ph's (any generation) are;

Elmer Keith, John Taylor, ...???

-- the three top double gun reference sources are;

Wrights' "Shooting the British Double Rifle," anything by Ross Seyfried, and GT Garwood

-- my next double gun will be (please provide time frame for purchase);
Just coming in, my SxS Seytre shotgun. After that I'll have to hold off for quite some time. Though I thought it might be interesting to have a 7mmx16x16 drilling one day...

-- my ideal double gun has the following features;

SxS, double trigger, well regulated, and fits me.