| DUGABOY1 |
| (.400 member) |
| 07/11/06 10:34 AM |
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Re: WTK: Reducing "Felt Recoil" from your Double Rifle
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I'm really sorry that I don't understand the specifics of recoil but then I don't understand the preference some people have for strawberrry ice cream or why some people require more pain killer than others . I think it's the heigth of egotism for someone to tell me what MY tolerance for pain is.
Zimhunter I have to agree with you that your tolerance for pain is a very personal thing, and nobody else can tell you what hurts you, and what doesn't.
However, I don't think that was what anyone is doing! The dynamics of recoil are the same for everyone, and the cost of what is done to relieve the recoil can be better or worse, depending what you do to change it! The fact is, it is a little surprising when talking of double rifles to discribe a 9.3X74R as "vicious" when discribing it's recoil, even in a very light Chapuis. I'd never have thought someone without a serious enjury, would need a Murcury reducer. That is the reason I didn't reccomend it for either of those two rifles. On the 375 H&H bolt rifle it have no effect on the rifle, but the potentual for disruption of regulation in a very light double does exist, and I would be remiss to not say so, to someone asking about that! Don't you think?
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As to knowledge of firearms I have been a gunsmith for over 50 years (school trained) and probably owned 15 double rifles from 8mm thru 470. I DO NOT like recoil and see no earthly reason to contend with it if I don't have to.
I agree whole heartedly, that is your choice, as it should be!
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For some reason the double rifle seems to make some people believe it is a living thing that cannot be criticised by a mere mortal and under no circumstance can it be changed from it's original configuration especially if it is of English origin. I for one don't hold to this belief.
I agree again, some do hold English doubles as nothing short of God's own invention, and any change is sin, and a double rifle made in any other country is automaticlly inferior! I don't hold that view either.
I see to the collector this could be the case, but to me a double rifle is simply the best designed rifle for certain purposes, nothing more, and I couldn't care less who's name is engraved on it,or what country is made in, as long as it is what I want. Senseable changes like the proper mounting of a QD scope on some doubles only makes sense, and if done properly, is not blastphemy to me, but an inhancement.
50 yrs of gunsmithing doesn't make anyone an expert on double rifles, and their idiocyncrcies. I know several well known gun smiths who build some of the best bolt rifles I've ever seen, but they know crap about double rifles, and they wouldn't lay a hand on one of mine! However, haveing owned 15 double rifles from 8mm to 470NE, and being recoil shy,you know something noone else knows, or you have been very lucky, indeed, if you have placed Murcury reducers in them without a problem with regulation, and/or balance!
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Sorry to have offended the sensibilities of some of the readers with my views.
I don't think anyone's sensibilities were offended for reason, or percieved reason, other than your's! It seems you percieved DISAGREEMENT, with you as a afront to your opinion, and they may have been meant that way, but that wasn't the way I read the comments.
If mine were disconcerting to you, or if this post has somehow stepped on your toes, then I'm very sorry about that! I simply don't see the problem, however!
