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470Rigby
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Re: Is the current double craze just a fad?
17/07/04 02:22 PM

The British Gunakers' double rifle trade was essentially underwritten by the Indian rulers up to the start of WW2. Sure, some wealthy Englishmen bought doubles to take out to the Colonies when taking up civil service postings. I'm not sure of the figures, but at a guess, I'd say 80 percent of the British doubles in circulation now would have come out of India. After the war, the Indian rulers just didn't have the readies to resume their former lifestyles of opulence, and the Indian Government with the withdrawal of their priviledges certainly put paid to any aspirations they might have had. Besides, the gunmaking skills just were'nt available after the war, and half the British Gunmakers were bombed out of existence anyway.

Sure, hunting was banned in places like Kenya, but IMO, Africa was never a major destination for doubles, and neither was ammunition for them, since magazine rifles were more in vogue there due to the more limited means of Game Departments, and the few sportsmen that hunted there in the years immediately following the war.

The Indian rulers had known no such financial limitations, but their post-war demise and limitations placed on them by the Indian Arms Act was eventually the death knell for Kynoch, and with that came the "near death" experience for doubles.

Curiously, it was India that led to the resurgence of Doubles, when Jim Bell (Bell Brass) and another Aussie guy went there as Peace Corps worker(s) in the 1970's and were given doubles by former rulers that had no use for them.

Jim Bell, finding that ammo was scarce went into the casemaking business, and due to the importation of rifles by the Aussie to Australia, local interest was kindled, ultimately leading to Geoff McDonald starting up Woodleigh bullets.

The rest, as they say, is history.

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Is the current double craze just a fad?	500grains	29/06/04 01:35 AM
Re: Is the current double craze just a fad?	bonanza	20/07/04 05:44 AM
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Re: Is the current double craze just a fad?	DUGABOY1	16/07/04 03:08 AM
Re: Is the current double craze just a fad?	470Rigby	18/07/04 01:51 AM
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