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.500 Hambrusch double
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Pics are not so great, but here it is.
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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Nice Rifle. How much does she weigh and what loads are you using? Has she been to Africa yet?
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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That is a beautiful Double.I don't remember seeing the name Hambrusch before is it from Germany or England.I would love to have a not over done,but beautiful 500 NE or 450 NE.I will in a few years I can't wait.Dave
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CptCurl
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20/01/07 01:20 PM
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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Nice rifle 500!
Curl
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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This is an 11 pound rifle. I use 110 gr IMR 4831 with a 570 gr Woodleigh or 103 gr H4350 with a 570 grain GS Custom FN solid. The rifle has plans to go on elephant duty this year in Zim.
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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The Hambrusch website is http://www.ferlachguns.com/
They also make bolt action repeaters up to .700 NE, drillings, vierlings, etc.
Bolt action .600 NE:
3 barrel combo gun which can be built as a 3 barrel 9.3 x 74R or 3 barrel .470:
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EricD
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20/01/07 06:32 PM
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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That's a beautiful rifle 500grains. How does this one shoot compared to other 500NE's you've owned or shot with?
Erik
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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Accuracy is good, but felt recoil is less because of the stock cast. As this rifle recoils, the stock moves away from my face. The worst feeling double I have shot was a Thys .470 that knocked me square in the cheekbone every shot because the cast was wrong for me (but it was probably right for someone else).
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EricD
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21/01/07 02:55 AM
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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Do you know if Hambrusch also makes more basic guns, or just higher end ones? I presume his doubles start at a far higher price than the typical Chapuis/Heym catagory?
Erik
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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I do not know where his prices start but his website does show a new basic 8x57 on a new M98 action, so he probably has some offerings for less than 10K.
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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Interesting that the Hambrusch regulates with the same load as a Searcy 500.
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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Hambrusch uses Kynoch ammo to regulate his guns, but Searcy's load regulates in it just right.
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NE450No2
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22/01/07 03:41 AM
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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I have shot 500gr,s 500 Hambrusch. It is a well made double and shoots very good.
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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A couple targets that I shot with it.
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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500 Grains,
Very nice rifle! Good hunting!
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Sunshine
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01/02/07 10:49 PM
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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I have a Cape Gun, 16/65 - 9,3 X 72 R, made in 1919 by Peter Hambrusch's grandfather. A beautiful gun indeed.
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degoins
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(.333 member)
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02/02/07 04:13 AM
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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very nice!!!
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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It is beautiful looking and I'd enjoy shooting
it I'll bet. You shoot it well Dan. Is it built
with 50% of its weight in the center 33.333% of
it's length as is the U.K. pattern, or is the
weight distributed 33.333% forward, center and
rearward, European pattern?
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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Jack, I do not know what the weight distribution is.
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Grizzly
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25/02/07 08:13 AM
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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Beautiful rifle!
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bwanamrm
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26/02/07 12:52 AM
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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Beautiful rifle Dan! And, judging from the target, beauty is as beauty does!
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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Thanks for the compliments! Hopefully the rifle will see some action this year.
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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Quote:
or is the
weight distributed 33.333% forward, center and
rearward, European pattern?
BFJ,
Is it really possible to have that sort of weight distribution on a double?
Come to think of it, I do remember a double which had been built from a shotgun and the rifle barrels were sleeved full length inside the shottie tubes.
It was a 444 Marlin chambering and I reckon that double may have had close to equal weight in the forward, center and rear thirds.
My .470 is a European double and it's proportions and style are similar to many English doubles.
The Hambrusch sure shoots nice. 
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Greener
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04/04/07 03:28 PM
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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Humbrush is the greatest gunmaker and offer gun for a good price:
double rifle boxlock ~20 000
sidelock ~ 45 000
bolt action ~9 000
the prices for an entry level gun in euro. Its good offers!!!
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NE450No2
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04/04/07 03:51 PM
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Re: .500 Hambrusch double
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I shot 500Grains 500 again a couple of weeks ago.
The shots were fired at 25 yards off hand, in the snow no less, and they hit side by side almost touching, the shots perfectly in line wih the sights.
It is one perfectly regulated and sighted in double.
It handles very nice as well.
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