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Henrik
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Re: The light to medium calibers?
30/05/05 11:33 PM

Thank you NitroX,
in Europe you will see two very different views and types of doubles.

The british guns which primarily are seen as guns for dangerous game and it will be a safe bet to say that these guns where never intended to be used on any game in the british isles. But back in the days when then never set on the british empire there was plenty of opportinities for the british hunter/officer/gentleman to hunt dangerous game in different parts of the empire.
But when the empire started to shrink and there where less opportunities to hunt dangerous game, these kind of double guns started to lose there market share. These guns are perfectly suítuated if you are going after beasts that might bite back under the african (or australian or indian)sun. But they where never intended for European game (of course I'm not saying that they cannot be used on european game). There has always been and always be a certain nostalgia surronding these guns.

The continental european double gun on the other hand has always been made primarily for european game (I am fully aware of all the exceptions to this rule). Here we are talking og guns that has been chambered for chamberings like 7x57R, 7x65R, 8x57 (jr or jrs), 8x60 rs and 9x74R among others. All these chamberings are fully adequate for game like moose, deer and boars of any kind.
My point here is that continental DG sort of ends at 9.3x74R which is the starting point for the british DG (as in 400/360).
There's a lot of really nice continental DG from places like Germany, Belgium and France, and they are often chambered for something smaller then 9.3x74R and the are often scoped as well

I suspect that the one place in the world where you are most likely to see someone use a DG of any sort would be on a driven hunt in continental europe...And a very substansial amount of these guns would chambered in something like 8x57 jrs or 7x65R...

After all this is said is still think that there's something special about a big bore british DG

Regards,
Henrik

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