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Beautiful background/setting!

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A more than adequate elg/moose rifle!

What part of Norway is this lovely countryside?

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Looking at that photo makes me feel like going into debt...................

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Maral,
good choice. Chapuis manufacture nice guns that are well made and reliable. They are by far the most popular brand of new double rifle at the BGRC with a number of members owning several. They seem to be well regulated and accurate. We have a number of double rifle events which get shot regularly so we fire a significant number of rounds each year and the Chapuis have proved to be excellent guns.
I have purchased a Chapuis myself in 9.3x74R which will be my first. Unfortunately due to Covid it has taken much longer to be made than normal but is supposed to arrive in April or may which will be over one year in the making. Apparently they have had several workers pass away due to Covid which has slowed production somewhat and the on again off again lockdowns hasn't helped. They are however contactable and as they are now owned by Beretta you can ask questions through them as well. I did and this worked fine at least for me.

Hope this helps, Matt.

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Matt,

Does Chapuis make their rifles to your specified dimensions?

I think they are quite well-made factory rifles, but like one of the posters above, I have found them generally too high in the comb for me. I get that slap in the face.

I hope you are doing well. I would like to return to the Vic BGRC Little River range at some point. It was good seeing you there. Here I am in August 2018 trying to hear your range commands with my deaf ears!




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Thanks for the input guys!
The photo was taken in my hunting terrain in Romsdalen, at a driven hunt. The current owner and his wife was visiting for a weekend of deerhunting. Romsdalen is in the northwestern part of Norway. About 25kms from the town Molde. Close to "trollveggen".

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Thanks for the reply.

A lovely area of Norway. I looked it up on the map. Isee Molde is where that long high bridge is well spanning some islands.

Three times to Norway and never seen much except for Oslo and the area a little to the North inland where I hunted with Erik from these forums. Then over to Sweden for more hunting.

Was the wrong time of the year for a tourist holiday, and always planned to return in a better month with my wife to do a "cruise" up the coast on the ferries getting off and on as appropriate or desired. Haven't seen the fjords other than Oslo Fjord which doesn't really count! The cost of Scandinavia makes a tourist holiday a little more daunting, and a reason for the much delayed return. But one day really want to return and visit friends in Norway and Sweden and see tourist sites.

Really lovely countryside in your image, with the snowy mountains behind. Must be magnificent to hunt with that backdrop in sight much of the time. Thanks for posting that image.

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Assuming that is left barrel to the left and right barrel to the right, I wish my doubles had such clear regulation. Well done.

Hopefu;;y the heavier scope doesn't affect the regulation. As a guess, if it does, it might make the two barrels shoot slightly more apart. Speeding up the loads slightly might compensate. Or something else happen. Ha ha.

Once tested with the new scope and if it is regulating OK, I'd love to see a "regulation" target shot with NO scope in place. To see how in your rifle it might be different, or not.

The 1x lower variable setting should be excellent on a big nore rifle. Especially in the brush. And great for largest dangerous game.

Up to 4x excellent for longers, more precise shots, a nice red stag at a 120 metres maybe, that tiny roe buck about to get hit with a 500 gr Woodleigh!!! The moose running by the stand should crumple nicely with such a large projectile, indeed might zip straight through with little expansion.

What reticle does your new scope have?

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Ooops..I had a Zeiss V4 1-4x24 with illuminated reticle at the shelf, and after looking through my "bits and pieces-box" I found som parts to convert the 1" scope rings to 30mm. The Leupold that was on the rifle has gone back to the past owner, and the Zeiss has been mounted. Hopefully this will not affect the regulating of the rifle, but it do look like it belongs on the Chapuis. If everything works as planned, I will sight the scope at 100m, and let the 470 have a swing at som red deer and elg this fall.

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The price is quite acceptable, I think.. In the $4000 range, included scope, Rcbs dies, 50 Norma cases and 150 Woodleigh WC bullets.

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BTW just looking back to your bridge image the link which has dropped off, that price, WOW! I would buy three at that price! Very well done. Usually second hand Chapuis here go for at least $7000. $8000 or a lot more. Very well done. And a "cheap" way to get into double rifle owning and shooting, with an extremely useful and valued chambering.

Your posts have perhaps made me consider one day a Chapuis in .375 as my future .375 double rifle, I have desired for many years. If scoped it performs like yours, it could become my main hunting rifle for anything medium game where a longer range shot may not be required.

One member on NE had unfortunate results with his Chapuis, same time I was in France. I forget the circumstances. But generally most people I know with them are happy. One or two have had negatives, but sometimes self caused, such as shooting unbanded mono metal solids through their rifles. But generally I think it is a cheaper DR brand which can be purchased with a fair amount of confidence, that it will do what it is supposed to do. I have been put off by the beavertail forend, but perhaps it can grow on me. I certainly will keep my eye out for a suitable pre-owned .375 H&H Mag or preferably a .375 "Mag" Flanged.

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