EricD
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There are several odd double rifles out there, but this new one made by Steinkamp-Waffenbau seems to be the oddest I've seen in quite some time.
It's a "Shorty" double rifle, where you open the rear part of the buttstock to reload.
Steinkamp SW1:
A synthetic stocked version is of course also available. 
http://www.steinkamp-waffenbau.de/produkte.html
They are made in the following calibers:
* 5,6x50R Mag
* 7x65R
* 8x57IRS
* 9,3x74R
There's a little video on this page: http://www.steinkamp-waffenbau.de/start.html
I personally can't see the reasoning behind the design of this double rifle, and from what's seen in the video, it doesn't seem very practical. 
Not to mention that it's even weirder than the Blaser R93 Duo/Hamed double. Which I thought would be difficult to achieve.
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My God, doesn't that Blaser look nice  Ugh, best, Mike
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Nighthawk
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It has a single trigger, so I guess most purists won't like it 
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If you look at it dispassionately, it makes sense if you want and ultra-portable DR for the fast follow up second shot, with 9.3X74R a well known and respected cartridge. Charm? Zero. Aesthetics? Zero. Easy to use and shot? Great. Reloading? Awkward. Market share? Who the hell knows. Dave
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The butt stock on that "shorty-double" would make a nice emergency canoe paddle ...
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peter
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looks aside(please take them away) i think it would handle like a brick, the handling is why a lot of us buys dbl. rifles in the first place. but man! they are fugly
peter
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I didn't say I thought it was 1) good looking or 2) good handling. I also did not say I'd buy one, I sure as hell would not. Dave
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peter
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no worrys dave, i dont think any of us would buy that thing, or admit to it if we did. i do wonder how it shoots though  .
peter
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I could not see either of these in my gun cabinet; but I could see the shorty rotating among my flight bag, the box on my DS bike, and the toolbox of my old Rover.
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Erik,
Would the gunmaker have any reasoning to offer for thie design? Is it supposed to fulfil any specific function? Looks odd to say the least...
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EricD
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Erik,
Would the gunmaker have any reasoning to offer for thie design?
Mehul,
Your guess is as good as mine! 
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Landy
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I am not Erik, but I will venture that this design is aimed at making the most compact multiple shot rifle or shotgun. The same could be done with a single, I guess. This thing even with ful length barrels is shorter ready to shoot than many takedowns when broken down.
This inventive design is not patently flawed, but it is not at all what is in the minds eye when thinking of double rifles. A special purpose tool not a fine sporting arm.
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The bullpup/shorty design probably would be quite quick and snap pointing in close confined areas (eg military applications) but would not swing well or balance well on running targets.
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Back in the sixties "BULLPUPING" was very popular and Styer made a bullpup magazine rifle that was a good design with the magazine in the buttstock. The rifle was no longer than a submachinegun, but sported a 22" barrel.
The double pictured here is just about as ugly as I've ever seen, but in a tight crawl-in to sort out a cat in in the rock cravases of a kopge it may have some merit. Another application is a survival rifle for bush pilots comes to mind. The rifle could be chambered for anything up to 458 Win mag, but I'd leave the barrels exposed from the trigger guard forward!
Not my cup of tea, but still it has some aplications that make sense, IMO!
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I realy like the scopemount, makes a good handle to carry it also.
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Dipling
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Good morning forum members.
I think I have to introduce myself at first (and apologize for my poor English).
I am the head of the gun building department of Steinkamp Maschinenbau.
The SW1 was never meant to be in one class with a fine side-by-side express rifle.
Development began as a survival rifle for pilots but some hunters asked for a double rifle version.
Like a good drilling machine for a craftsman it is meant as a tool for the hunter, nothing else. It is build for compactness and precision, not for the elegance of a fine side-by-side.
For the SW1 design follows function or in this case: compactness.
And definitely: It is not the most elegant but the most compact double rifle on the market.
So, if you need a compact and rugged all-day rifle where you don´t need white gloves to touch it, have a look at our SW1.
The "high" scope mount was built on customers request. The normal solution we deliver as a standard for every rifle are solid spacers in three different heights to raise the weaver rail.
You can use any standard weaver-type scope mount with this solution.
Greetings from germany,
Jörg
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peter
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hi jorg
wellcome to NE.com, please dont be insulted by our remarks, your design is just so different from what we normally run into and discuss, that it was bound to get a hard rewiew.
i still wonder as to the handling, have you done it so that the weight lies a bit forward so it can swing ?
best regards
peter
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Dipling
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Hi Peter,
thank you for your welcome.
Eyery remark is welcome. If everyone would have the same sight of things life would get boring...(and we wouldn´t have built this gun...)
The handling is definitely differing from normal rifles. Its difficult to describe. The centrepoint of weight is at your shoulder and is supported by the shoulder so it handles like a very light gun. Therefore it doesnt really "swing" but it is really fast, faster than a normal gun.
I think one would have to handle it to understand the SW1 "behaviour".
Best Regards,
Jörg
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Hi!
I hope i didnt sound to sarkastic with my remark on the scopemount, if so my please accept my appology. Its just that compared to a conventional rifle it looks high, and i realise that with the unusual stock the line of sight would be higher. If its a handyrifle why not a holosight that one could flip up and that way ceep the rifle as slim as possible. Also people who do a lot of tracking of wounded animals could benefit of the design, the are usually wanting to use short rifles.
And i would rather have the bulpup rifle than the blaser R93 duo.
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What is it really for? Cleaning out a crack house?
I would rather have a Steyr Aug.
It ain't no double rifle, and that's a fact.
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Dipling
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It ain't no classic double rifle, and that's a fact.
Curl
If YOU talk about a double rifle i think you could mean something like this:
http://freenetfoto.de/userwebsite;jsessionid=57n2ey9h6i3m.freenetapp12?act=15&pos=5
But this is a future project...
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Edited by Dipling (20/06/08 04:25 PM)
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EricD
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Jörg,
Welcome to NE. It is always interesting to hear about guns directly from the source.
I tried the picture link you provided, but it automatically brings us to the "Freenetfoto" main page, and not the picture.
Erik
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Dipling
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Hi Erik,
thank you for your welcome, too.
I don´t know what happened to the link but try this one: http://freenetfoto.de/album/doppioristretto/
I hope this will work.
You will find some pictures of a prototype, the SW1 serial standard and on picture nr. 6 you´ll see one of our future projects.
Jörg
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Edited by Dipling (20/06/08 05:49 PM)
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Dipling,
First let me welcome you to the forum.
Now let me atone for my blunt comment of yesterday. It was not my intention to disparage your product, and I apologize if my post gave that impression. Subtlety on the internet is hard to achieve, and nuanced remarks often play wrong. My butchered grammar was intended to connote facetiousness, but seeing the remark in today's light makes me realize my effort failed.
The only real seriousness in my post does deserve some discussion, so let me present it properly. Would you please expound on the ideas behind this design? Is it intended as a sporting arm?
Beyond those basic questions, I would be interested to learn more about the design, how it operates, techniques of manufacture, cost, and availability. More detailed photographs would be welcome also.
Again, my apologies, and my welcome to you.
Curl
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Dipling
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Curl,
thank you very much for your welcome and for your interest.
The idea behind this design is very simple: Building the most compact double rifle.
We try to combine some of the advantages of a double barreled rifle with the compactness of a bullpub-design.
Advantages of a double barreled rifle in this case are the fast second shot and the possibility to combine a shotgun and a rifle caliber or a big and a small rifle caliber. We are building not only double rifles.
Advantages of the bullpup-design are the compactness and the speed of getting the gun on the target.
If a bullpup gun is carried muzzle down, buttstock already at the shoulder it is faster than any other conventional rifle.
Parts are besides some exceptions completely CNC-milled from high-quality steels.
The trigger-system is attached to the upper barrel and carries the weaver-rail.
The barrels are free floating for thermal lengthening.
The barrels are adjustable for windage and elevation.
The rifles locks are cocked by the underlever and automatically decocked by operating the opening lever beneath the trigger.
Cases are ejected by opening the spring-opened buttstock end cap. If you open it manually the cases are only extracted.
The action is a falling block action operated with the buttstock end cap.
The suggested retail price incl. VAT here in Germany is 3200,-€.
Our customers are hunters, especially professional hunters. Some of our customers already used the SW1 for driven hunts with great success.
The next SW1´s will be availible in August, all in 8x57 IRS besides some rifles in 9.3x74 R.
Combination guns will be made on special order.
I hope my english is good enough to provide you some information.
Jörg
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