Most PH that are involved in the shooting of 40 or more Buffalo every year along with elephant, Lion and Leopard, get experienced pretty quick and about every year they have an incident or more...Most get mauled, several times in a lifetime and some get killed every year..

The simplicity of a double is one of its big assets, one does not have to be life time trained to pull a trigger twice up close and personal and that is what the PH and his double is all about...Another advantage is you have the instant option of a soft or a solid with a double and that is a real plus hunting dangerous game.

You just cannot apply logic that applies to pumps, auto and bolt guns to the double rifle...

I do believe that any professional hunter should be able to operate as well with one type of gun as another, he should be well versed in all manor of hunting rifles just like a soldire should be well versed in his military weapons to survive..I cannot imagine otherwise...I, personally can pick up any hunting rifle and operate it with the same effeciency and my pet Mauser...I never have bought off on beware of the one rifle man, all that means is he is not well trained, does not like guns as much as I do and probably hasn't hunted much....