500 grains,

As someone who is only an interested amateur as far as guns are concerned and cannot afford a double rifle at all, this is my 2c. I have never liked hard kicking rifles and have always hunted with small rifles and 12 bore shotguns but the romance of a double rifle fascinates me. If I could afford one, and I hope to save money for a couple of years to buy a lower end one (as my present Non Resident Indian status allows me to buy guns and bring them back to India when I return as a Returning Resident) not for anything but the fact that it is a superb hunting tool and it would give me many years of happiness just looking at it as well as add a little spice to the pigs I hunt with it.

I guess we hunt only for a small fraction of the time that we own our guns and that is where the pleasure of owning a double would make much more sense than owning a practical, hard as nails bolt action in stainless steel with a Kevlar stock or something of the sort. I presume all those people who have placed orders on doubles forward ordering them into the next half decade think the way that average guys like me do.

Good hunting!