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mickey
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Re: Is the current double craze just a fad? [Re: 470Rigby]
#17168 - 25/07/04 04:15 PM

I am going back down there tommorrow and will see if I can get some more info. Unfortunately they do not allow cameras so no pics.

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Re: Is the current double craze just a fad? [Re: mickey]
#17179 - 25/07/04 10:41 PM

I shot and owned Brno Express, Cogswell and Harrison,W&C Scott, Heym, RB Rodda, W Richards,Antonio and Angelo Zoli,and a BSS Browning convert.When the new gun laws came to Canada I sold my doubles for fear of them being worthless and taken by the goverment as I had a rather large investment. During those years you would seldom see a double for sale here. Now at the gun shows I see doubles turning up for sale and they seem to be selling.Prices are high. I now have the BSS and the Antonio Zoli. The English guns I expect went to the States. I called Cabelas about a rifle and they told me there was no way to get it to me. I had purchased a rifle from Champlin years before before.

There is nothing like shooting a double although they can be a pain to load for.

Some of the people a getting back into doubles since the gunlaw scare as once a double shooter always a double shooter.

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NitroX
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Re: Is the current double craze just a fad? [Re: canada]
#377483 - 23/06/23 01:26 AM

Ancient thread. Is it?

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Re: Is the current double craze just a fad? [Re: NitroX]
#377504 - 23/06/23 08:46 PM

It seems to have cooled somewhat. However, I'm still at it!

Curl

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Marrakai
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Re: Is the current double craze just a fad? [Re: CptCurl]
#377512 - 23/06/23 10:27 PM

Buying more vintage British double rifles has cooled a bit for me personally, for the simple reason I can't afford the covid tax demanded nowadays...

...but like Curl and others here I am definitely committed to wearing out those that are currently in my custody!

Or trying to...!

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Ahmed577
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Re: Is the current double craze just a fad? [Re: Marrakai]
#377513 - 23/06/23 10:30 PM

Will soon have a Holland Purdey and Boss 600 in camp. That about finishes me.

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NitroX
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Re: Is the current double craze just a fad? [Re: Ahmed577]
#377520 - 24/06/23 02:54 AM

A post from almost twenty years ago. Hundreds of doubles rifles, both old and new have been sold through interest from the NitroExpress.com forums.

I think it is not a fad. But their use a well tested formula.

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Re: Is the current double craze just a fad? [Re: NitroX]
#377521 - 24/06/23 02:59 AM

I bought my first around twenty years ago, my Jeffery .450.

My second the Tikka/Valmet 9.3 about back then.

Since a second set of barrels. Four others since then.

A modest collection. I'd like to use them more however in recent years.

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Re: Is the current double craze just a fad? [Re: Ahmed577]
#377522 - 24/06/23 03:05 AM

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Will soon have a Holland Purdey and Boss 600 in camp. That about finishes me.

Colin's been keeping three makers busy for twenty years.

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