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Paul

Nor did I , that is why I wrote "regulate" rather than "shoot"

I was not suggesting either to the poster, or to "New Guy" the Heym chap, that there was anything amiss with his gun. Simply that a double without information as to the correct load for which the rifle was regulated is as much use as tits on a fish. I imagine that "new guy" supplied the required info in a few minutes.

DR's are not designed for handloaders, they are built for one load and that load alone.
The fact that with a lot of messing around they can sometimes be made to shoot with another formula is irrelevant and should only be necessary with rifles for which the original load is unavailible.

If one knows in advance of ordering a rifle that factory loads are going to be unacceptably expensive and some other concoction of propiatory head and powder and primer is going to be used, then it would be best to supply these to the gunmaker and regulate the rifle for the "homeload" in the first place and save a lot of tears.


Regards

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I just have to disagree with this post. It is such little issue to find two or three loads, often with different bullet weights and profiles, that shoot well in most double rifles that it begs to be done. And that doesn't even account for softs vs. solids, which ussually require different loads.

And there is the "75% Rule", which can make shooting a big bore both more affordable and less trying.

JPK

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