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Here's what I learned; NEVER - NEVER - NEVER, set BOTH triggers of a double rifle! When you do this, the recoil from the first shot, drops the "hair-sear" of the second trigger. This resulted in getting 400 grains of recoils as both barrels fire simultaneously, at the same time.

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An old friend (now deceased) of mine had a Krieghoff Teck O/U double rifle in caliber .458 Winchester Magnum which he loved to blast away with using full power loads. Once he was engaging in this pastime, shooting from the sitting position, when it occurred to him that he had been shooting the front trigger first the whole time, so for a change he decided to try shooting the rear trigger first. Unfortunately he forgot that he had already set the front trigger. The resulting double discharge slammed the scope so hard into his forehead that it bent the tube. Undeterred, he bandaged up his wound and kept shooting!

Incidentally, the recoil on a doubling double rifle is four times that of a single discharge, since the weight of the gun remains the same, while the bullet weight and the recoil velocity are doubled. As the energy of the recoil varies with the square of the velocity, two squared equals four.

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