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Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?
26/08/04 03:38 AM

A Paradox is a choke rifled gun made by Holland & Holland. Other makers made them under various names, but today, the tendency is to refer to them all collectively as Paradox guns much as we tend to call all facial tissues a Kleenex. They can be a single or double barrel, but nearly all the ones I've known about were doubles.

The concept is to make a gauge sized barrel that is rifled in the last few inches where a shot gun would have its choke. hence the term "choke rifled". If a gauge sized rifle cartridge (Not a shotgun slug load, the gauge sized rifle cartridge is a rifle cartridge in every sense of the term.) is fired, the choke rifling imparts spin to the bullet as in a conventional rifle. If loaded with a shot cartridge the main part of the barrel is smooth bored and does not disturb the shot charge. The last few inches of rifling impart a relatively small disturbance to the shot charge so the pattern is decent. The idea is to have one gun that can be used as either a rifle or shot gun.

Of course some compromises have to be made and such guns tend to be more rifle than shotgun. One compromise is the stock, as a rifle wants more drop than a shotgun. You have the same compromise with a gun with two sets of barrels, one for a rile, the other for shot. Others peculiar to the rifled choke gun is that you are stuck with a fairly open shot pattern and the barrels are a bit heavy for a shotgun.

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Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	NitroX	04/11/04 01:09 PM
Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	470Rigby	04/10/04 04:31 PM
Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	500grains	26/08/04 05:13 AM
Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	Marrakai	26/08/04 01:29 PM
Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	500grains	26/08/04 03:43 PM
Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	Marrakai	26/08/04 08:09 PM
Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	mickey	27/08/04 04:49 AM
Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	AdamTayler	27/08/04 04:28 PM
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Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	ALAN_MCKENZIE	27/08/04 11:07 PM
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Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	Photog	28/08/04 05:57 AM
Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	mickey	28/08/04 11:22 AM
Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	NitroX	28/08/04 12:35 PM
Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	mickey	28/08/04 02:21 PM
Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	vigillinus	09/09/04 12:47 PM
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Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	NitroX	26/08/04 11:58 PM
Re: The Paradox - is there a modern place for it?	Marrakai	27/08/04 10:40 AM
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