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alexbeer
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Do you hunt with your DR?
      #104678 - 10/05/08 04:51 PM

Hello

After looking at the gorgeous "bellies" posted by Curl, I wondered if your DR's are collector items or if you take them out into the hunting arena?
If you take them hunting, what do you hunt and where?
Is there a problem taking them into and out of Africa?
I am curious, as the DR would seem to be perfect for hunting BIG game where you might need a second shot in a hurry! Then, these are thoughts from a wife married to a mad DR owner, hunter, fisherman, etc. I have never hunted myself, so I apologize if I have asked silly questions.

Married into the business,

and enjoying it!

Laura

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PS-REally like this site!

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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: alexbeer]
      #104681 - 10/05/08 05:38 PM

Hi Alex,

I hunted big game for the first time last September at age 62 when I hunted Buffalo in the Northern Territory with Australian Buffalo Hunters, Graham Williams.. I took my Chapuis "Brousse" in .375 which performed beautifuly with the Federal 300 gn TSX Cape Shock Ammunition and yes, the second shot puts them down for keeps.

I flew by Qantas after getting their "Letter of Authority" for carrying Dangerous Goods and was a Breeze. I now have a renewed letter to fly with them for when I go to Africa which will hopefully be in May 2009. I have been advised that it is fairly straight forward but have a "Meet and Greet" guy organised at JoBerg Airport that does all of the paperwork on the ground. This is in addition to the paperwork provided by the hunting outfitter.

There are no silly questions, only answers you do not know of.

Cheers for now.

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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: CHAPUISARMES]
      #104683 - 10/05/08 05:58 PM

Hello, Alex:
I hunt with my doubles from several years ago. Strictly, my first double, a Merkel in 9,3x74R, was adquired with that purpose. Later I bought a Francotte in 450 BPE and it too has gone hunting, and a great experience it was. It is wonderful returning to its intended use a rifle of 85 years. It is also wonderful the face of your hunting buddies when they realize your old double still works fine!
In Spain, where I live, we have not dangerous hunt; but in our driven hunts of boar and stag, when one boar (or more than one) running ahead of dogs crosses a "cortadero" (a 20 yard opening in the bush), the DR two shots are really handy!
Use your doubles, they are very practical tools!

Antonio Molins, Spain.


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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: herrdoktor]
      #104685 - 10/05/08 10:20 PM

Hunt with doubles pretty-much exclusively, except for official cull-hunts where a scoped 6.5 to .308 is mandated.

Check the hunting page of my web-site.

Doubles are just so damn correct for hunting boar and buff in the Australian tropics. Assume similar for Africa, both plains game and DG, but yet to embibe!

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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: Marrakai]
      #104688 - 10/05/08 10:55 PM





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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: ozhunter]
      #104695 - 11/05/08 02:16 AM

Hunt with a DR? What else is there? If you ain't hunting with a DR, you just ain't hunting!



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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: CptCurl]
      #104700 - 11/05/08 03:26 AM

Of course. Why have them if you can't hunt with them.

Currently my favourites are 303, a 9.3x74R and a 450/400. They are the most practical for what I do now. I have used my Faunetta for Grouse and Chukars but no game. I have also used my 10 bore Paradox for Turkey, Geese and a couple of feral pigs. An 8 Bore for two whitetail Does.

I also have a few bigger rifles tucked away that I have used in the past and, maybe, will again one day.

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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: mickey]
      #104705 - 11/05/08 05:57 AM

Cap: Love those camouflage suspenders. I hear bears are color blind. Now, I can't speak for their taste in attire, but good thing you shot him before he could offer an opinion. Dave

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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: dnovo]
      #104714 - 11/05/08 08:33 AM

Hunting is the reason I bought mine.I got it several months before going to Zimbabwe and shot most every weekend before we left.I am in the process of looking for another good deal on an African hunt now because my rifle want to go back after other game.

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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: WVFRED]
      #104723 - 11/05/08 10:34 AM

I collect guns and shoot a lot, but have not been big game hunting yet. I would love to go sometime if work schedule and $$$ permit.

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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: bigdog]
      #104737 - 11/05/08 02:42 PM

I have been hunting since I was six with the game and rifle size growing as I did.

No doubles in the safe yet. The $$$ means are just coming now for such high end guns.

I think Iwant to hang around here and learn a bit before I buy.

Landy


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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: bigdog]
      #104739 - 11/05/08 02:51 PM

Gentlemen, I think Laura Beer is asking the question!





Laura,

I'm not a collector at all. All my firearms are for hunting. Except I have more than I need for just simple hunting.

I tend to prefer my rifles including doubles to be plainer and simpler, as I am not the kindest person to them and believe a tool exists to be used, not babied.

My Jeffery .450 No.2 Nitro Express, "Zabardast", has been used on a variety of game, including elephant, water buffalo, donkeys, boar, warthog, fallow deer, scrub bulls, among other game. Oops forgot the last beast to fall to "Zabardast", banteng - photo added above.

My Tikka/Valmet 9.3x74R has been used on a water buff cull, scrub bulls, boar, warthogs, deer, donkeys, wild horses, and some other game.

My .58 Black powder DR has to yet be blooded.

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If I was a rich man I would have an extensive collection as well.



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alexbeer
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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: NitroX]
      #104743 - 11/05/08 05:20 PM

Gentlemen,

Thanks so much for your replies.

I am trying to learn as much as possible about rifles and hunting, seeing as I married Alex, a custom rifle maker and a keen hunter. So I appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions.

Nitrox, will we see you at the Shot Expo? We are in booth 34 and will be running a Special Expo Package!

Sincerely,
Laura
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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: alexbeer]
      #104752 - 11/05/08 11:32 PM

Laura--

Welcome to the website---great folks here!!!Alot of Double owners and prospective owners as well!!

Doubles are great guns to hunt with--I have a Merkel but haven't bloodied it as yet--Maybe soon on a pig hunt!!

Would love to see your guns under construction and the finished product!

Cheers

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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: alexbeer]
      #104795 - 12/05/08 05:10 AM

I have always been enamored with double rifles, and have collected them since the age of 21, and I'm now 71 yrs old! I collect any firearm with more than one barrel, but always with the idea of what I can hunt with them!

I hunt everything from jackrabbit to Cape Buffalo, and back friends on Elephant, with double rifles of one chambering or another from 22 Hornet, to 577NE! I see no reason to own a gun unless there is a purpose for it beyond self defense, or hunting!

The double rifle is the only firearm in my view that started life as a hunting rifle! All others long, or short, were origenally designed for self defense, or warfare! Regardless of the dressing on a double rifle, it is still a hunter on the inside, and that is what I use mine for!

Welcome here! and though your company is far away from my Texas home, most of my rifles have come from places just as far away! Hunters, in Texas, or OZ, are brother, and sisters under the skin, and it makes little difference, where they come from, or the language they speek, and the common thread is the tools,and the animals, in this case the double rifle, and big game!

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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: DUGABOY1]
      #104802 - 12/05/08 05:57 AM

Welcome to the site..and YES...I do hunt with mine--primarily use it in Africa and plan to use it again for elephant...using a W/R .470...

Ripp

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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: Ripp]
      #104890 - 12/05/08 09:51 PM



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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: 93mouse]
      #104932 - 13/05/08 07:44 AM

Use them every chance you get.





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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: new_guy]
      #104940 - 13/05/08 10:23 AM

Oh Yes









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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: Bramble]
      #104952 - 13/05/08 11:56 AM

Great stuff, John!

I don't even own a double but after looking at this hombre wadin' out in that slush I want one real bad, and a plane ticket and a seat on the mule to wherever this hunt took place...



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alexbeer
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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: DUGABOY1]
      #104956 - 13/05/08 01:30 PM

Hello gentlemen

Thank you so much for the replies and the photos! I am really enjoying this site. I wake up in the morning and look forward with much excitement to who has posted what.

I really appreciate what Mac from Texas said...
Quote:

The double rifle is the only firearm in my view that started life as a hunting rifle! All others long, or short, were origenally designed for self defense, or warfare! Regardless of the dressing on a double rifle, it is still a hunter on the inside, and that is what I use mine for!




To me that sums up the elegance and tradition of the DR.

Plus I thank you for your lovely welcome. I am liking you gentlemen more and more every day.

Laura
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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: alexbeer]
      #104971 - 13/05/08 06:00 PM

Viewing these great photos of doubles and the wide variety of game taken with them, I'm having to review my thoughts on doubles.

To me, they've always represented the ideal stopper for all game at close range and the big bores fascinate me the most. Probably a result of reading a lot of Africana! However, the thought of a lighter double is fast beginning to appeal to me for general hunting and I have a pleasant but nasty feeling where this is going! So much for my bank balance!

Alex and Laura, we are going to have a chat at the SHOT Show...a big chat!


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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: Bighammer]
      #104973 - 13/05/08 07:22 PM

Doubles can be great for the dangerous Klipspringer...


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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: 9.3x57]
      #104976 - 13/05/08 08:17 PM

Quote:

Great stuff, John!

I don't even own a double but after looking at this hombre wadin' out in that slush I want one real bad, and a plane ticket and a seat on the mule to wherever this hunt took place...




Ha, you will have to speak to Matt Graham whom hunts at Gan Gan in Arnhemland. I am sure he could find you some wetlands to wade in.

It was a fun hunt, the bull was shot at very close range with Matt and I in up to our thighs at less than 20 yards away in a thin strip of paperbarks about a 100 to 200 metres from shore. The bull was zig zagging through the swamp feeding on succulent shoots and I waited until he turned towards shore before shooting, in case he made a run for the deeper water behind in the photo. Story here.

Thanks for the modified photo. I may use that! I might have to modify the banteng one in a similar way to remove from hot red face in that photo.

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Re: Do you hunt with your DR? [Re: NitroX]
      #104989 - 13/05/08 11:30 PM

Great hunt, John.

You guys keep working on me and my budget and that budget might be a little tighter...

BTW: I had no idea banteng were such a beautiful animal. Really stunning coat and color scheme.

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