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AzGuy
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What Was Your First DR
#79070 - 21/05/07 03:49 AM

I think most of us would agree that the decision to purchase a DR is a combination of romance, nostalgia, reading too many old African books/stories, and being a reasonably educated "gun nut".

I'm guilty of all of the above. Based on my experience, I'm thinking more people buy Big Bores (40 cal +) than small to medium bores as their first DR.

My first DR: 470 Searcy

What was yours?

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Savuti_One_Shot
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Re: First DR [Re: AzGuy]
#79072 - 21/05/07 04:02 AM

Wilkinson BLExt in 450/400 3 1/4" NE.
And for exactly the same reasons.

SOS

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500Nitro
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Re: First DR [Re: Savuti_One_Shot]
#79075 - 21/05/07 04:43 AM

Holland & Holland Underlever Hammer 500/450 3 1/4" NE

It used to be Graeme Wright's old gun that
is written up in his book.

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mickey
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Re: First DR [Re: 500Nitro]
#79080 - 21/05/07 05:52 AM

Paton 450 light nitro.

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dnovo
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Re: First DR [Re: mickey]
#79088 - 21/05/07 10:16 AM

Holland & Holland 8 bore. Dave

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hoppdoc
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: AzGuy]
#79091 - 21/05/07 10:47 AM

470 Merkel, same reasons--

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Raff
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: AzGuy]
#79096 - 21/05/07 12:23 PM

577-3" BPE Alex. Henry.
Been infatuated with hammer doubles ever since.
Raff

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Chasseur
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: AzGuy]
#79098 - 21/05/07 12:52 PM

Same as mine today:

Chapuis UGEX, 9.3x74r.

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AzGuy
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: Chasseur]
#79103 - 21/05/07 02:09 PM

Chasseur,

Is that the same rifle or the same caliber?

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Nighthawk
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: AzGuy]
#79108 - 21/05/07 06:22 PM

Blaser S2 in 9.3x74R

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zimhunter
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: Nighthawk]
#79147 - 22/05/07 10:34 AM

Cogswell & Harrison 450/400. It was available and first double I'd ever seen. I was 16 years old.

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CptCurl
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: zimhunter]
#79149 - 22/05/07 10:45 AM

Well I have previously spilled my guts on this very same topic:

Please Tell the Story of Your First Double Rifle

Curl

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hoppdoc
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: CptCurl]
#79152 - 22/05/07 11:22 AM

I had read about Doubles for decades and wanted one because
I had finally decided to hunt Africa.

I wanted one so bad I bought a Merkel 470 NE sight unseen over the internet from a fellow 3000 miles away.Thank God the references, work info,etc and deal worked out. I sweated getting that gun like crazy until it arrived.

You have to have the hots pretty bad to risk sending Thousands of dollars by cashiers check to an individual you have only spoken to a few times over the phone--

I call it Doublemania!!

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bigdog
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: hoppdoc]
#79154 - 22/05/07 11:50 AM

A 700 nitro express Searcy double, 2nd double will be a Ken Owen 4-bore, should have by December.

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AzGuy
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Loc: Prescott, Arizona, USA

Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: CptCurl]
#79162 - 22/05/07 01:34 PM

Curl,

Thanks for sharing your perivious post.....great story, well written and brought back memories of lots of my own "trades"...

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AzGuy
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: bigdog]
#79164 - 22/05/07 01:39 PM

BIGDOG,

You are really into "BIG"..... a 700 ??? For your first DR?!?!

It would take alot of Jack Daniels (somebody else buying

) to even get me to "think" about shooting a 700!!

Hope you like it!!

Thanks for sharing.

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Marrakai
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: AzGuy]
#79167 - 22/05/07 01:53 PM

My story is up on Curl's link too, couple of posts down from his.

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bigdog
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: AzGuy]
#79168 - 22/05/07 02:04 PM

Arizona, I had been wanting one for along time and there was one avialable for trade early last year, so I got it. I have been shooting big bores for about 25 years. I do like it. You know when you have been shooting with it. It is doable once you get used to it.

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AfricanHunter
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: AzGuy]
#79231 - 23/05/07 08:32 AM

My first one was a beautiful mint Cogswell in .450 3.25 BP. C&H wanted to reproof it to Nitro. Well, it failed, then got stolen from ginshop operator in New York recommended by no less thjan Jack O'Connor. Never did get to fire it.

So, my really first one was a Boswell 450 #2. I used it on my first safari to Tanzania 35 years ago, taking elephant and buffaloes with it.

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Chris_Smith
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: AfricanHunter]
#79236 - 23/05/07 10:39 AM

My first, and likely only, is a G. Little 500 Black Powder Express 3 1/4. It belonged to my best friend. He passed away in December and I bought it from his family. I am begining to learn how to handle it and have gotten it and myself to shoot well enough that I feel mostly confident that I can make a wild boar have a bad hair day. Thats about the only semi dangerous critters around here excluding snakes.

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AzGuy
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: AfricanHunter]
#79237 - 23/05/07 11:08 AM

AfricanHunter,

Do you still have the Boswell?

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450
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: AzGuy]
#79243 - 23/05/07 11:46 AM

Baikal 9.3x74R and no regrets. Now that it is scoped and regulated it will be my main hunting rifle for all deer. Heading to Northern Territory in October to hunt pigs, buffalo and a scrub bull. Loaded with 286 woodlieghs it will do the job.

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Bramble
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: 450]
#79304 - 24/05/07 09:26 AM

The one I've just built. (450#2)

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bouldersmith
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: Bramble]
#79307 - 24/05/07 10:45 AM

Willam Evans super magnum paradox, I havent shot it yet. Working on my second now, an Alex Henry in what I believe is .360bpe, 2 & 7/16" case. Fun stuff.
Steve

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Rustyzipper
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Re: What Was Your First DR [Re: bouldersmith]
#79329 - 24/05/07 07:57 PM

Valmet 412. 12x12 and 9.3X74 o/u. RZ

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