| DUGABOY1 |
| (.400 member) |
| 26/11/04 03:57 AM |
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Re: Using your double to its fullest
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I am not at all uncomfortable with the notion that some (perhaps most?) double rifles can be made to regulate with a number of different bullet-weights and loads. My question would be...Why?
Are you seriously telling us that a .400 NE, for example, will kill pigs, goats and deer BETTER with a 300-gr bullet than a 400-gr bullet? ..when the rifle is regulated and sighted for the 400-grainer? ..and the trajectory of even a round-nose 400-grainer will deviate no more than ONE INCH from the line of sight, out past 125 yards or so?
Marrkai, there is a very good reason WHY! No 1 is, because premium bullets for doubles are expencive, and some are not lucky enough to be where WOODLIEGH bullets are cheap, and available over the counter. The fact is, if the cheap bullets regulate the same way, you can shoot a lot more with your Double. That can only pay off when you are on a Buff, and things happen fast. Woodliegh bullets here in the USA are $75 US for 50 bullets, in common calibers, and go up to $100us for fifty in the odd calibers. The little Hornady's are $25 Us for 100 bullets in the smaller calibers, and about $30 us for 50 bullets in the larger calibers.
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What happens when your bopping along through the bush with your .400 double happily stuffed with 300-gr loads, and the buffalo of your dreams steps out at 20 yards!?
There isn't much chance of running into a water Buffalo in Texas!
Maybe a Texas long horn, but they are pets, and land owners frown on anyone shooting there cattle. When we go where the bulls bite, we take the regular softs, and solids used for that purpose. Since they group the same the hold is the same, so no adjustment in hold. If we did all our shooting with premium bullets, we wouldn't get 1/10th the practice shooting we do with the cheaper bullets! When you are a poor working stiff, it kinda makes sense, don't you think! 