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bulldog563
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Claude Bouchet DR's
      #46615 - 14/01/06 07:43 PM

Whats up with these. I saw a few on doublegunhq.com and they range in price from 75K to 200K, in weight from 4.5kg (7X57) to 10.5 kg for a 577 T-Rex. Other calibers available are 300 Wby, 378 Wby, 460 Wby and 500 A Square. Pretty unusual.

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Re: Claude Bouchet DR's [Re: bulldog563]
      #46643 - 15/01/06 04:22 AM

They're only for looking at. The Weatherby calibers wouldn't stay on face long enough to get them zeroed. The .460 is 20 lbs - singularly useless.
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Re: Claude Bouchet DR's [Re: 400NitroExpress]
      #46674 - 15/01/06 11:58 AM

Yes also they cost as much as a new Holland and the are really ugly. Do people actually buy them?

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Re: Claude Bouchet DR's [Re: bulldog563]
      #46684 - 15/01/06 03:02 PM

This Bouchet is HUGE!



He must have melted down a whole Peugot to make it.

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Re: Claude Bouchet DR's [Re: 500grains]
      #46688 - 15/01/06 04:10 PM

They all seem to be ridiculously big. Even the 275 Rigby looks big. What a waste. Anyone who wants to buy one should just give me the money and I will give them a swift kick in the nuts. Figure it should be about the same as what they would have gotten. And they deserve it.

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Re: Claude Bouchet DR's [Re: bulldog563]
      #46691 - 15/01/06 05:57 PM

I had some correspondence with the French gunwriter Raymond Caranta through the offices of Gun Digest, the only American magazine that he writes for. Claude Bouchet is a recluse who lives on a huge property in France and makes guns to his own designs. At the time I corresponded with him through Mr Caranta (Bouchet did not talk to anyone directly unless he knew them very well) he was working on building double rifles that did not break down after firing the 500 A Square and similar chamberings. The rifles that have appeared for sale are not his original rifles which were featured in Gun Digest some years some years ago - those were U/O designs but still very sleek and conventional in appearance. That is why I have no idea whether the present guns are early experiments or later "strengthened" versions of his designs?

Claude Bouchet was planning on retiring from his business - one of the largest agricultural machinery manufacturing businesses in the world as well as from hobby gunmaking at the time and he was also clear that he would not sell his guns to anyone. He must have changed his plans for reasons that only he knows... In all my correspondence with Mr Caranta, both men were clearly perfect gentlemen and brilliant though eccentric in their own way. Bouchet was proud of the fact that he did not and never had owned a car...

As my good friend here MacNaughton would say, gunmaking is a field where brilliant eccentrics were responsible for many innovations. Considering that Bouchet's uglier creations are on sale now, hopefully, his "better looking" designs would also come on sale. Just check out old issues of Gun Digest - I cannot immediately recall which annual the article was in, but it featured two more brilliant French eccentrics - Christian Ducros and Alan Vaussenat.

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Re: Claude Bouchet DR's [Re: mehulkamdar]
      #46846 - 18/01/06 04:08 AM

There was a discussion about this monstracity about a yr ago. some dealer in Oregon, was toughting them. It seems the double barrels have both bores drilled through one piece of steel, with no soldering at all. This dealer claimed this thing was regulated without any hand work from a regulater at all, but drilled properly by a machine! Yeah, right!

I find this thing to be a hogg, with engraveing, and simply a fancy, polished piece of railroad iron, with a nice piece of wasted stock wood! ....................................PUKE! The only double rifle I find to be uglier is the BOLT ACTION, PUSH FEED, FUCH !

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Re: Claude Bouchet DR's [Re: DUGABOY1]
      #47394 - 22/01/06 11:12 AM

GOOD LORD.

Is it for shooting, or clubbing a beast to death?

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