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Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations
04/08/06 07:13 AM

The question is not how much pressure will double rifles take, but rather how much pressure will YOUR double rifle take? Doubles have beeen built to handle pressures all over the map just as bolt actions have been. There are doubles that take the 458 Winchester or the 375 H&H. There are bolt action rifles that would be converted into hand grenades at those pressures. A given cartridge will run the same pressure in double or bolt rifle.

Cartridges designed specifically for singles or doubles ran rather low pressures for the simple reason there was no need for high pressures. There is no constraint on case length as there is with a bolt action. The 458 Winchester is an outstanding example of a cartridge running high pressure because of length constraints.

Today we have doubles chambered for high pressure cartridges like the 458 Winchester, not because the high pressure is really needed but because of the ready availability of the 458 Winchester cartridge. A 450 3-1/4 would be a better choice in every way except for the fact that you can't buy cartridges at your corner gun shop.

Lower pressures do make for easier extraction, and it has to be admitted the double does not have the extraction power that a good bolt action does when you have a sticky case. But this is not a question of how strong the action is or what it would take to blow it apart.

Edited by unspellable (04/08/06 07:16 AM)

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Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	Grizzly	31/07/06 07:43 AM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	400NitroExpress	31/07/06 09:42 AM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	Marrakai	31/07/06 06:24 PM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	hoppdoc	01/08/06 09:38 PM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	400NitroExpress	02/08/06 12:58 AM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	Marrakai	02/08/06 06:23 PM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	Rusty	02/08/06 11:02 PM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	Marrakai	03/08/06 09:07 AM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	Grizzly	03/08/06 10:26 AM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	unspellable	04/08/06 07:13 AM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	Marrakai	04/08/06 09:32 AM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	hoppdoc	03/08/06 10:48 AM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	Rusty	03/08/06 11:25 AM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	unspellable	03/08/06 07:16 AM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	4seventy	02/08/06 11:25 AM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	Double_Trouble	02/08/06 01:41 AM
Re: Double Rifle Pressure Recommendations	Rusty	02/08/06 10:23 AM

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