I have a Searcy and its my first American made double, I have always used British doubles in the past...

This gun is the PH model in a 470 N.E., it is slimmer and trimmer than the old searcys.. It will shoot a 500 gr. bullet at 2245 FPS, that's its regulation load from the factory, and it will also shoot to the same POI as a 500 gr. bullet at 2020 FPS and a lead 500 gr. bullet at 1700 FPS and all will touch two bullets at 50 yards. It will shoot any 500 gr. bullet to same POI also, and you can shoot BarnesX or any monolithic bullet in it, and I have never heard of one shooting off the face...I have not seen any other double come close to that.. To top that off Butch borrowed it and walked away with first place at the National double Rifle shoot off in Sacramento last week....

Needless to say which one I like, but 500 grs. who posts here says the same thing about his, as will the good judge very soon...

As to a working rifle, the Searcy simply cannot be beat, and if something goes heywire, just send it to Butch and he will fix it.... I have owned enough doubles to guarentee that..

Before this rifle I was a dyed in the wool English rifle person, but I have come to realize that 99.9 percent of them are made of poor steel and are simply worn out, been blacked umpteen million times, most have a certain amount of wood decay and most have bores that don't look so good..Few of them shoot worth a flip and most are simply worn out as a 100 year old rifle should be..But they do balance very well indeed, and are a great investment if one knows his double rifles..I have always made big bucks off most of my English double rifle investments...

I have now slayed the sacred cow! and expect to be defamed, gilflurted and Swighaultered without mercy or even the least bit of consideration, but so be it, its time to bring all you old duffs into the light...