Gentlemen,

In India the Paradox/Explora/Fauneta guns were used to take virtually all the game available there. The combination was so popular that even mass market manufacturers like Harrington and Richardson produced single barreled shotguns with the front of the barrel rifled for farmers and aspiring brown sahibs who might be invited on a hunt with a maharaja or a zamindar. I am no expert on dangerous game - have never shot any and most probably never will, but even with my old smoothbore Savage 12 bore in India I found that large boars would go down very fast if hit in the right place at the ranges typical there - 20 to 30 yards. The 12 bore with ball may be considered a low powered round compared with most rifle rounds but I have seen boars hit with 30-06 and 7mm rifles which have not dropped any faster. As a matter of fact it is my clear recollection that they game dropped faster when hit with my shotgun. A Paradox would have done the job much better.

African game is, perhaps, much tougher than Indian game, and that is why I don't know if it could be hunted with PAradox guns. That said, for most other hunting, these old fashioned guns should be perfect at moderate ranges. One of the Italian gunmakers (I forget which one at the moment) makes a Paradox 12 gun these days but with only one barrel Paradox rifled. I wish they would offer it in the USA with both barrels Paradox rifled. It would be a very nice deer gun in the shotgun for deer areas in the Midwest.

Good hunting!