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Poster: Peterb
Subject: Re: Searcy double

You forget that the improvement of the double rifle CONTINUES. Butch is using better materials than the old Brits had. They are simply TOO HEAVY. They are about two pounds heavier than they should be. Theirs cannot shoot monolithic solids. The Brit gunmakers are no longer gunmakers but clothiers. The big names are owned by fashion companies. Their shotguns are very nice but I am personally not interested in a $50,000 shotgun or a $100,000 double rifle than cannot shoot modern bullets and is two pounds heavier than it should be. I'll take a Searcy over anything out there.

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Peter

I need to take exception to some of your points. While Searcy is using better steel than the old Brit rifles the new Brit and Euro rifles all use comparable steel to Searcy.

I find that the Searcy are the heavier rifles in caliber, not the Brit rifles. I think it comes from using the same size action for all calibers instead of the size that best fits. There is also a lot of extra metal on Searcy rifles. Is it because of the reliance on only two locking lugs?

Why would it matter if a rifle can shoot a monolithic solid? What exactly is so great about them? What is wrong with the old tried and true bullets that have been in use for 100 years? Are they not any good?

Until Tyra Banks or Coco Channel start filing barrel flats and timing ejectors who owns the companies is irrelevant. It is the workers who determine the quality. By the way, who is it that owns Winchester/Browning now?

Searcy rifles have come along way since he screwed barrels into Jap Browning actions. They get better feeling and slimmer every time he modifies them. In a few more adaptions he might get to the point where they point and feel like an extension instead of a protuberance.

Of course at that point they will no longer be the entry level tool they are now but be a mid to high priced weapon and people will be touting the next guy to come along and make a cheap and serviceable rifle.

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