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Shooting a Blaser double rifle
#394142 - 02/11/25 03:07 PM

Shooting a Blaser double rifle

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Re: Shooting a Blaser double rifle [Re: NitroX]
#394158 - 03/11/25 07:20 AM

Interesting, I wonder what calibre it is?

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Re: Shooting a Blaser double rifle [Re: 93x64mm]
#394161 - 03/11/25 09:31 AM

Does Blaser list this rifle on their webpage? I'll need to take a look. That's a lot of capacity!

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Re: Shooting a Blaser double rifle [Re: fjrdoc]
#394167 - 04/11/25 01:51 AM

Special order for a Middle East customer.

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Re: Shooting a Blaser double rifle [Re: NitroX]
#394172 - 04/11/25 03:31 AM

Looked like 9.3x64's to me.

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Re: Shooting a Blaser double rifle [Re: DarylS]
#394175 - 04/11/25 07:04 AM

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Looked like 9.3x64's to me.

Awesome! Finally someone got it right.....TWICE!

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Re: Shooting a Blaser double rifle [Re: 93x64mm]
#394176 - 04/11/25 07:26 AM

Probably not inexpensive. Might be somewhat heavy.

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Re: Shooting a Blaser double rifle [Re: 85lc]
#394183 - 04/11/25 02:54 PM

While I see these as a gimmick, IF IF IF they were reliable and reasonably balanced, and well regulated, such a rifle in a .400 calibre might be very useful. in a .450 or .500 deadly but very heavy.

Maybe a .416 Rigby, or a .404 Jeffery would be better.

Would be great if accurate enough for plains game shooting as well as big dangerous game hunting.

If I was a uber millionaire. I might consider one. Just for the sake of it.

Not sure of the Blaser platform though.

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Re: Shooting a Blaser double rifle [Re: NitroX]
#394184 - 04/11/25 02:57 PM

6 in the magazine, 2 in the chambers.

Glad to see the shooter knows how to reload the rifle, working the bolt at his shoulder after firing.

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Re: Shooting a Blaser double rifle [Re: NitroX]
#394198 - 05/11/25 08:19 AM

John,

I agree. That gun looks like a gun to promote Blaser's engineering and gun making skills.

The shooter makes the rifle seem like a doable big game rifle, firing 8 shots fairly quickly from the shoulder. It takes a very good DR to shoot 8 large caliber shots quickly without the barrels moving due to heating, ruining a group.

If money wasn't an issue, I also would like one but in a mid-range caliber (like 7x64) to cut the weight down and, frankly, there are very few wild elephants or even hippos in Georgia or even elsewhere in the USA where I hunt and fish. (of course, excluding obese people)

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Re: Shooting a Blaser double rifle [Re: 85lc]
#394200 - 05/11/25 11:06 AM

A 4 shot (in the magazine) version makes more sense to me.

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Re: Shooting a Blaser double rifle [Re: DarylS]
#394205 - 05/11/25 06:43 PM

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A 4 shot (in the magazine) version makes more sense to me.

Extended 20 round magazine underneath please!

Which Blaser model is it? R93 but no external magazine. R8, I s assume, where the magazine and trigger is one detachable unit. 2 or 3 cartridge capacity I believe in a normal R8.

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Re: Shooting a Blaser double rifle [Re: 85lc]
#394206 - 05/11/25 06:54 PM

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John,

I agree. That gun looks like a gun to promote Blaser's engineering and gun making skills.

The shooter makes the rifle seem like a doable big game rifle, firing 8 shots fairly quickly from the shoulder. It takes a very good DR to shoot 8 large caliber shots quickly without the barrels moving due to heating, ruining a group.

If money wasn't an issue, I also would like one but in a mid-range caliber (like 7x64) to cut the weight down and, frankly, there are very few wild elephants or even hippos in Georgia or even elsewhere in the USA where I hunt and fish. (of course, excluding obese people)

The target bullet spread doesn't look too good though.

Lots of spread lower left side, some in the black, half in the white, However he was firing fast over the shoulder.

Funny comment about the human hippos.

I dream of water buffalo, Cape Buffalo, and elephant culling. A.404 Jeffery bolt action double rifle firing 400 or 450 gr .423" bullets would be useful. Certainly would have lots of quick follow up shots available.

I did get a small water buffalo cull on the edge ofcArnhemland. 14 water buffalo I think it was. I used my 9.3x74R Tikka double rifle with 286 gr Woodleigh Weldcores. Other than brain shots, more than one shot was usually required. The Tikka has ejectors, fast reloading, empties shooting off over my shoulder.

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