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Taos
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Double rifle ranges
#21697 - 05/12/04 03:18 AM

You folks seem to really love your double rifles down under. I would really like to have a couple of them also. I have had several in the past but out here in the western U.S our ranges tend to be over 200 yards when hunting. The doubles that I have owned were not very accurate at those distances and were weeded out of my safe for something that would work for most of my hunting. What ranges do you shoot them on game down there? Do you use them for all your hunting?

I will be the first to admit that most are fine examples of the gunmaking art but for me they need to be usefull also.
I don't mean to be blaspheming double guns but just airing some thought rolling around in my mostly empty head.

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DUGABOY1
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Re: Double rifle ranges [Re: Taos]
#21766 - 06/12/04 04:37 AM

TAOSThe double rifle is as accurate as any iron sighted rifle! The key is to learn how to shoot them. The sights, with multiple leaves in them, marked for different ranges, are there for a reason. With the proper load, and bullet weight, and shape, they will shoot to those sights easily. The problem is, one has to find out how the sights, for a particular double rifle, are to be used. Some will regulate both barrels to the sights all the way out to the end of the sight range, while others are designed to be used with both barrels only at 50 yds, and 100 yds, while the longer ranges are to be used with only one barrel. That barrel will shoot to the longer ranges, but not the other barrel.

In any event, any double rifle will have one barrel that will group tighter than the other, once you find the barrel that is the most accurate, you learn where to hold with that barrel for long range, sort of like shooting long range with a Ruger No1. The one,two punch is only needed at close quarters, but at long range only one simply uses the rifle like a single shot.

I don't think you would want to stand at 300 yds hopeing I couldn't hit you with any double I own.

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ThomasEdwards
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Re: Double rifle ranges [Re: Taos]
#21781 - 06/12/04 12:45 PM

...fully agree with dugboy...a scoped double (especially in o/u configeration) should be as accurate as any turnbolt if used as a single shot at 150+ yard ranges...at < 100 yard ranges, it does 'double-duty' as a formitable hunting tool for dg...imho...

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unspellable
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Re: Double rifle ranges [Re: Taos]
#21890 - 08/12/04 12:42 AM

Double rifle cartridges such as the 275 H&H Flanged (The venerable 375 Magnum case necked down to 275.) were meant for long range shooting such as stag in Scotland. One presumes they must have had the long range accuracy to accomplish what they were intended to do.

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NE450No2
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Re: Double rifle ranges [Re: Taos]
#21899 - 08/12/04 04:03 AM

Taos
I am not from "down under" but I have hunted quite a bit with my doubles.
My longest shots on game are as follows:

With my 450 No2 I have taken deer at 85 yards with 350 grain bullets.
I shot a bull elephant at 120 yards with 2 480 grain Woodleigh solids.

With my 450/400 3 1/4" in Alaska I shot one caribou at 85 yards and one running full speed at @125 to 150 yards. [Sometimes you just get lucky

] This rifle has a 50 yard standing leaf, I had flipped up the 100 yard leaf for the shot.

With my 9,3x74R [scoped] I have shot a coyote at 271 yards, lasered after the fact, and hit him with both bbls.
In Africa I shot a Kudu at about 300 to 325 yards. I hit him with 3 out of 4 shots, I did not hold high enough on one of the shots, it hit right under his chest.

I have shot the iron sighted doubles on a rock at 200 yards with the 200 yard leaf flipped up and both rifles were dead on and seemed to regulate well.

Comparing iron sighted doubles to iron sighted bolt rifles and scoped doubles to scoped bolt rifles in similar calibres, in the feild I have not found their to be any great accuracy difference, and I much prefer the 2 quick shots of the double rifle.

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atkinson6
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Re: Double rifle ranges [Re: NE450No2]
#22779 - 29/12/04 06:13 AM

I can shoot a double with iron sights as well as I can shoot any rifle with iron sights...I would say 200 yards is a near cinch and 300 yds is pushing my luck...with a double or a bolt gun with irons.

Most of the game I have shot with irons has been 125 yards and under, mostly about 50 to 75 yards.

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