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mickey
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Re: Please Tell the Story of Your First Double Rifle
01/04/05 03:59 AM

I had a Ruger #1 in .375 that continually slipped the extractor over the rim. It also kicked too much.

At a local gun show a fellow had a 450 Nitro for Black that he wanted $900.00 for so, thinking that anything was better than the Ruger, we traded. I had to throw in a old Redfield wide angle though.

I had no idea what a Nitro for Black was but had hunted with a 470 Wilkes that belonged to a PH I knew a couple of times when I was in Africa. I had never shot anything other than a Mopani tree with it though.

The rifle was a Patton, made Scotland and was regulated for a 360 grain bullet, I believe. It was a sweet litttle rifle weighing all of 8.5 lbs with a horn butt.

I traded it for a H & H 465 that was trashed but had good barrels. A good trade but I wish now I would have worked harder at raising the $3,000 for the Holland and kept the Patton.

The person I traded it off to sold it to a PH in Zim who couldn't hand load or find ammo so he used 480 grain Kynoch. He shot it off the face in a couple of years and ended up selling to some farmer.

I tried to run it down once when in Zim but the farmer had died and no one knew what happened to the Patton.

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Mick

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Please Tell the Story of Your First Double Rifle	CptCurl	31/03/05 12:50 PM
Re: Please Tell the Story of Your First Double Rifle	NitroX	01/04/05 02:43 AM
Re: Please Tell the Story of Your First Double Rifle	Rell	01/04/05 03:31 AM
Re: Please Tell the Story of Your First Double Rifle	mickey	01/04/05 03:59 AM
Re: Please Tell the Story of Your First Double Rifle	foxfire	01/04/05 06:10 AM
Re: Please Tell the Story of Your First Double Rifle	Marrakai	31/03/05 02:01 PM
Re: Please Tell the Story of Your First Double Rifle	NitroX	31/03/05 02:44 PM
Re: Please Tell the Story of Your First Double Rifle	Marrakai	31/03/05 09:06 PM
Re: Please Tell the Story of Your First Double Rifle	bonanza	01/04/05 02:08 AM
Re: Please Tell the Story of Your First Double Rifle	Chasseur	31/03/05 01:55 PM

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