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Hello Dugaboy ! Sorry for the late answer, I didn't check this thread for a while. My Krieghoff was a standard Classic 9,3x74R with adjustable muzzles, regulated with RWS factory ammo with 293 gr TUG-bullets.As I wrote, I had to go back to the factory to get it regulated and sighted in on my cost, despite the nice-looking original sighting-in target I once relied to. This left a bad feeling with that gun. This was not the last visit at the Krieghoff factory but the bad accuracy remained. Since I am living just an hour drive from Ulm, I know several other hunters from this area that had the same experiences and eventually got rid of their costly guns as well. Then I heard the story of a Krieghoff Classic Big Five in .470 when on safari in the Zambezi valley. The double shot very good when new, so the owner locked it away until about six months before his next big game safari to Africa. When he went to the sooting range to practice with the rifle, he soon discovered that regulation was going away quickly. The first two rounds were OK, about two or three inches apart, after cooling down of the gun five inches, then ten and so on. The poor guy went to his gunsmith to find out what was going on and it looks like there were severe tensions left in the barrel steel when processed and regulated. Who knows. But I think now that producing a high quality double rifle that shoots and regulates as can be expected is not an easy task. The inherent high price is tempting to make some quick money with modern methods of production, CAD, CNC and such. But this doesn't work with doubles, a high level of craftmanship can't be replaced by machines. Just my humble opinion !

Kalunga

"Always stand still and shoot at whatever animal is threatening You most is what I have found to be the best plan." W.D.M. Karamojo Bell

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