In reply to:

---

4seventy,
It isn't about knockdown, it's about hav'n fun.

And we had great fun!

---

True, and I might add, Tony and his wife were not useing little rifles, Tony was shooting his 450#2 NE, and his wife was useing a 450/400 3 1/4" both with full hunting loads!

I'll be useing a 500/450#1 Exp with 28" barrels for my shooting!
That should give me an advantage With those long barrels I can simply wait till he gets to 3 yds, and let both barrels go! Or........I guess I could just shoot light loads in my little 9.3X74R


--------------------
..........Mac >>>===(x)===>
DUGABOY1, and MacD37 founding member of DRSS www.doublerifleshooterssociety.com
"If I die today, I have had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"

Post Extras:

In reply to:

---

4seventy,
It isn't about knockdown, it's about hav'n fun.

And we had great fun!

---

Rusty,
I have no doubt that it is a great fun shoot.
Yes I agree that it is NOT "about" knock down.
It IS about having fun and by factoring in the Taylors KO my mates found that it could be even MORE fun.
I think that most would agree that a low recoil double is easier to shoot accurately than a big, hard kicking gun.
The KO system just tends to even things out a bit.
With the standard system, a guy using a 22 High Power double could win the "Charging Buffalo Event" by just one point over a guy shooting a 500 Nitro!
Who do you think should really win?
I reckon they BOTH should!

Post Extras:

In reply to:

---

I hope you and your mates have fun with Taylor!

---

Rusty, sorry but neither myself or any of my mates are that way inclined!

Post Extras:

In reply to:

---

Sounds all too technical to me.

---

Apparently some others have trouble understanding it as well.
Queenslanders and Territorians don't have any trouble with it though!

Post Extras:

In reply to:

---

Queenslanders and Territorians ...

---

Ha ha. Good one.

If I manage another double discharge, does that mean I get a double score (at least) plus a bonus for stupidity.



--------------------
John aka NitroX

...
Govt get out of our lives NOW!
"I love the smell of cordite in the morning."
"A Sharp spear needs no polish"

Post Extras:

In reply to:

---

If I manage another double discharge, does that mean I get a double score (at least) plus a bonus for stupidity.

---

Post Extras:

In reply to:

---

Of course, the best double rifle practice used to be the good old bomb-up of feral pigs and goats.

---

I agree.
My 470 for example has fired over 200 shots since I've had it.
Doesn't sound like much.
But then only 10 of those shots were not at animals.
I shot 6 checking regulation and sighting and another 4 over the chrony.
Regulation was perfect, sighting was easily sorted and the velocity was good.
So then I took it hunting!
I have other doubles as well as the 470 and some of these have shot many hundreds of hunting rounds and they rarely see paper targets of any kind.

Incidently, the fellas I referred to in the top end do have a lot of fun at their shoots but I should add that a couple of these guys have shot more NT buff with quality rifles than anyone on this planet!
These guys were into SERIOUS double rifle useage long before the current rebirth of DR interest.

Post Extras:

In reply to:

---

Personally shooting a bunch of numbered circles does absolutely NOTHING for me. I like to hunt with my rifles and prefer to shoot game targets. Photos or cut-outs of a deer, or pig, or buffalo.

---

NitroX,

I definatly agree with you. But I do sometimes shoot at circular targets, usually only when sighting in a scope etc. And because I still have quite a lot of small, 30 meter circular targets I "borrowed" from the military.

Most shooting I do is on fullsized Reindeer targets (the standard used when taking the yearly "big game shooting test" we have here in Norway). Or fullsized roedeer targets.

Once a year, before the moose hunt starts, we have a shooting competition between our "hunting team" (10 people), and our nabouring "hunting team". This is at various animal figures, such as reindeer, badgers, roedeer, hare, and fox. 5 shots at each target, and 5 differant targets (a maximum of 125 points is possible). The distances vary from 100 meters to 40 meters, and all shooting is done while sitting on cut up tree stumps (to simulate shooting while sitting in the forest). The targets are set up in 5 differant locations along the side of a road we use (towards a safe backround naturally), and 5 guys go off at a time up the road and rotate/continue to the next target area when finished with the targets they were shooing at. So you get to walk a bit too, which is good as it gets the pulse going a little.

2 of us use our 375H&Hs, while the rest are the common moose caliburs of 30-06, .308 and the odd 6.5x55. The funny thing is that the 2 of us that use the .375 usually win, or come in second place.

Since this yearly competition began some years ago, the level of marksmanship has risen a lot amongst our hunting team members. The reason is simple; the object is not to personnally win (although that's nice too!), but for our team to beat our nabours team! It's a matter of honor!

It's not bigbores or doubles, but at least it's towards animal shaped targets!

Erik

Post Extras: