After years of thinking about getting one, I finally settled on and bought a double rifle in 470 NE. While it is the ultimate “love em or hate em” model; I am truly very, very happy with it! As you may have surmised, it is a Blaser S2 (Luxus actually). It has super wood (IMO) & it even came at a great price. I have experienced zero problems with learning famous cocking safety routine (with a few “snap cap” sessions for practice prior to live firing, it was easy to develop some muscle memory). She shoots spot on and dumps the empties right out without issue. I am now even considering adding a set of barrels or three in 30/06 (my favorite “everything else” caliber), .375 H&H (my favorite medium DG / large plains game round) & even a double 12 or 20 gauge when they offer it.

I know someone somewhere must be thinking: “Why in heavens name did you buy a Blaser?” Well the short answer is; I just really liked the blasted thing! I was blessed with task of picking it specifically out of 4 other S2’s that were in that shop. In my search I was fortunate enough to handle and in a good number of cases even fire a wide range of high quality ‘doubles’ including several from the famed brit houses. They were all really superb rifles and each had its strong / weak points. Interestingly the two that stand out most were an H&H and a Searcy (both build one heck of a gun). But alas in the end the S2 just felt, shot, and yes even looked like what I really wanted. It just had the “I’m your rifle” feeling with it. BTW if you have never had this feeling then you simply need to buy more guns; it will happen eventually.

Now I just need to find some loading stuff/dies for 470 NE and a ‘recipe’ similar to the Federal factory loads and I’m good to go. The one good thing about buying the bloody Federal factory stuff off the shelf is it really makes the money I spend on match grade 50BMG ammo seem cheap! However even a dyed in the wool Mauser action DG rifle guy like me could get to like this “twice rifle” thing at this rate.