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I have, and use a wide variety of the Valmet System guns and barrels. Tikka did make a double trigger receiver; I have one. I used in Tanz with 9,3 o/u barrels and 320 gr Woodleighs to take a decent buffalo. I just told the game scout it was a 375 Flanged. He didn't know the difference. Neither did the buff...ran off 30 yards and gurgled loudly...died. My 416 Rigby doesn't kill'em any deader.

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Luv2safari, did the 320 gr Woodliegh bullets, in your Tikka 9.3X74R, require much change in the regulation adjustment? I've been thinking of working up a load for this bullet in my Merkel S/S, but it doesn't have adjustable regulation, so it may be a real deal getting a load that will shoot to the regulation of my rifle! If your rifle did not require a great amount of change, the load should be fairly easy! Woodliegh Bullets are expensive here in the States, so I don't want to waste any more than I have to, working up a load!

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"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!"

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You have just described how your SxS method of loading both the O/U chambers does not work very well, true?

Part of my original statement was.......

" perhaps you should try a different loading technique".

My point being that it may not be a fault of the O/U but really a fault with the technique used to load the O/U!

Perhaps if you don't want to take my advice on doubles you may prefer to take some of your own.

Like regarding SxS & O/U chamber loading......

"Loading technique can,almost always, be improved on"
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"If one needs improveing, they usually both do"!

Good advice indeed!

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4seventy you have made quite a few comments on your loading technique being a better system, but you don't give any details! I for one would like to hear how this system works! If you have a better system to load both barrels similtaineously, than the one I described, on the S/S I would be particularly interested! I can think of no way to load both barrels at the same time with an O/U. My system works beautifully for the S/S for me, and the two rounds between the fingers was not invented by either of the people you have credited with it. It was practiced by Tayler, and many before him. Not only with double rifles, but with shotguns as well, and came origenally from the bird fields on Engalnd, Scotland, and Ireland!

I will have to follow my own advice, as you say, now as my left hand doesn't work so well after all the nerve damage done by the cancer, and the resulting surgery!

It makes little difference what is done, when loading one barrel at a time, all that has to do is, be conventient to YOU, but the butstock, or regular belt shell holders only works for one barrel at a time loading! I have always loaded with my left hand,both barrels at a time, keeping my right hand on the pistol grip of my rifle!

for the second reload, I use a little gadgit called
"DOUBLE DUTY" sold by TRADER RICK, and made by GALCO. It holds two rounds held by a little flap & post. When it is flipped open it unfolds on a henge, and drops two round into the left hand, primers down in the palm, bullets up like your fingers, giveing you control for the second two barrel reload.

With the two in the barrels, two between the finger, and two in the DOUBLE DUTY, you have six of the most convenient shells for quick reloading, and that system has worked very well for me for fourty years, except for the DOUBLE DUTY, which only came out about ten years ago, but is seldom needed in the field.

It seems, now, that may have to change my way of reload, because of hand problem!

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"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!"

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Like blood from a stone!

You've hinted at it several times, TELL US!

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Nitro,
I seem to remember a long long time ago someone on the forum tantalizing us with a post called "Hellfire and Double Rifles"!
Two can play this game ya know!

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You've hinted at it several times, TELL US!

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Nitro, all in good time ol'mate, all in good time!
Or as Sir Humphrey would say, "In the fullness of time Minister"!

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Wrist ammo holder?

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

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