I guess if need alone were the defining criteria for ownership of a double rifle, then we would probably have never got beyond .303; .30/06 and maybe the archetypal NE round the .450 31/4", thankfully our forefathers also did not feel the need to be restrained by need for few calibres hence we have the choice today of many different but in many ways similar performing cartridges. As Dan rightly says whether you enjoy owning and shooting the smaller calibre doubles or the shoulder wrenching big bores, and for that matter if you like to shoot Dangerous game or just punch holes in paper with them it matters not, that you enjoy owning and using them is what matters.

For my part I enjoy reading on this forum of the uses each and every one makes of their own rifles and how they enjoy owning them, as we all have different wishes and thoughts then that is what matters most.

The picture of "Pop" with the Rigby was especially pleasing to see, thank you for sharing it, i suspect you are right that Mr. Seyfried is unlikely ever to part with it.