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The William Douglass rifles that I had been talking about, were chambered in 450 no.2 Nitro Express. It turns out that the chambering reamer that was furnished by the owner to me was cut incorrectly, short in the neck area by many thousands of an inch. This caused a HUGE spike in pressure,before the bullet could be released to go down the bore. Did not notice this when i fired the gun, only on checking the fired brass was this found. If anyone has one of these guns, marked William Douglass,London on the bottom, with an Elepahant on one side and a Cape buffalo on the other, in silver plates inlayed into the sides, these guns need re,reamed with a good reamer.
I just said what i was told by William Douglas, and Mr.Sargent about the guns, as I wanted him to know about the problem of a potential problem with a firearm that had his companies name on it. He told me that he only made shotguns now, or so I was led to beleive. I may be mistaken, and not understood him correctly. He said the kits were made for shotguns, not double rifles. I guess I did not convay that well in the previous post.
I am sure that a William Douglass firearm, made by the company is a fine firearm, and well capable of handling any load recommended for it. My concern is the Kits that were sold by Cape Outfitters, that were of the type that I had delt with. No offence was intended to Mr.Sargent, the Wiilliam Douglas Company, or any one who owns one of these original fine firearms.

The guns were falsely marked anyway, and stamped with British Proof Marks,or so I was told, by the person that I made the guns for.He claimed to have the O.K.from the British Government to do this. I cut out the association with him when I found this out, as it is fraud, pure and simple, and I did not want any part of it.
When these guns were fired, it almost took you off your feet, and dislocated a friend of mines neck,sending him to the chiropractor,ater it was fired. It sent a 500 grain bullet out at 2700 fps. I thought this was an overload by Superior Ammo, and called them. I owe them an apology.
Yes, I am a gunsmith, and a very good one. But we all can get snookered time to time.
I just wanted to relay a warning on these 2 guns.
Oh By the way, I must have done the lock well. No doubling even at that recoil level.

Edited by gunsmith (18/01/10 04:42 PM)

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