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JPK
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Re: Double Rifle Survey
02/12/06 09:21 AM

I think an open sighted double rifle is by far the best choice for elephants so I beleive that your double rifle ought to be first an elephant rifle. That means 450+ to me.

Nothing wrong with using that elephant rifle on buff either, though here a scoped rifle will proove more versitile. I use my elephant rifle for buff, but if I were purely out to shoot the biggest set of horns I would be carrying a scoped rifle with a reasonably flat trajectory and the tracker would be carrying my big double - or vice versa.

If my preference were reversed and instead of elephants being my prefered target and buff a fun to hunt distant second it were the other way around, I might drop the 450+ and settle on a 450/400 weighing no more than 9 1/2lbs shooting North Fork flat nose solids and cup points, equiped with a good scope in claw mounts.

My second rifle will always have to be a legal and wise choice for elephants. For me right now its a bolt 375H&H.

JPK

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Double Rifle Survey	hoppdoc	02/12/06 06:19 AM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	bonanza	02/12/06 10:41 AM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	NE450No2	02/12/06 07:00 AM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	JPK	02/12/06 09:21 AM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	NE450No2	02/12/06 12:06 PM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	bonanza	02/12/06 12:33 PM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	NE450No2	02/12/06 04:35 PM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	hoppdoc	02/12/06 10:08 PM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	Rusty	03/12/06 12:42 AM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	JPK	03/12/06 05:31 PM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	Marrakai	04/12/06 09:21 PM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	JPK	05/12/06 05:07 AM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	NitroX	02/12/06 10:06 PM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	hoppdoc	02/12/06 10:46 AM
Re: Double Rifle Survey	bonanza	02/12/06 11:01 AM

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