Curl,

Thanks to you and everyone else for your comments. I like your idea about testing the barrels, I want to do everything possible before I start out with another double.

As was said lets use this to try to prevent this happening to anyone else, the next one might not be so lucky.

Shame to have a rifle ruined, but hey if it had happened later I would have been in front of a very big elephant who might have decided he did not like my looks.

CFA