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mehulkamdar
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Re: Strongest Double Reciever?
10/04/06 02:05 PM

I had posted Graham Greener's explanation on the strength of the Greener Facile Princeps action here some time ago though I could not locate the thread just now. It was considered the strongest break open double rifle action in the golden days of British gunmaking before WW-2 broke out. Some consider it ugly and the problem that Greener faced was that it was extremely expensive to manufacture and they lost a lot of money making them becaue no one wanted to pay as much for a boxlock design (which is what the Facile Princeps was in the end) as they would pay for a sidelock. Greener recently reintroduced the design and have made the first Facile Princeps actioned double rifle (a 375 Magnum, I think) since the war but I have also heard that they are concentrating more on sidelock rifles as they seem to be facing the same prejudiced that they faced in the past. Sad, and I hope that the design does not go into cold storage as it did post WW-2.

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Strongest Double Reciever?	starman	09/04/06 11:21 AM
Re: Strongest Double Reciever?	mehulkamdar	10/04/06 02:05 PM
Re: Strongest Double Reciever?	DoubleD	16/04/06 05:44 AM
Re: Strongest Double Reciever?	mehulkamdar	17/04/06 11:57 AM
Re: Strongest Double Reciever?	A10ACN	15/04/06 11:29 PM
Re: Strongest Double Reciever?	CptCurl	10/04/06 06:00 AM

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