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Marrakai
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Re: New Steel vs Old steel
21/05/07 01:39 PM

Some strange assumptions here....

Brit doubles, and the better 'continental' offerings, were traditionally built to the correct weight for comfortable recoil management and muzzle control when close to DG. The idea that a lighter-weight gun could not have been built a hundred years ago because of material strength limitations is simply incorrect.

The truth is that makers at the time knew what the customer wanted/needed in a time when most DRs were hunted on foot against DG on a daily or weekly basis. The artificial PH-backed one-shot safari of today might permit a light-weight double-rifle shooter to happily survive his encounter with DG, but a light-weight heavy calibre DR would have gotten you killed sooner or later during the 'heyday' of African and Indian hunting.

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New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	19/05/07 01:07 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	mehulkamdar	19/05/07 01:17 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	mickey	19/05/07 04:25 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	mehulkamdar	22/05/07 04:38 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	19/05/07 07:07 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	dnovo	19/05/07 09:09 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	AzGuy	19/05/07 11:59 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Marrakai	21/05/07 01:39 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	400NitroExpress	23/05/07 02:22 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	23/05/07 11:17 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	400NitroExpress	24/05/07 03:06 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	24/05/07 06:53 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	bonanza	24/05/07 07:22 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	400NitroExpress	24/05/07 06:01 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Grizzly	24/05/07 08:02 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Will	24/05/07 08:46 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	400NitroExpress	24/05/07 06:15 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Will	25/05/07 12:33 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	mehulkamdar	25/05/07 07:07 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Will	25/05/07 08:30 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Grizzly	24/05/07 12:11 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	CptCurl	24/05/07 11:57 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	400NitroExpress	25/05/07 01:11 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	25/05/07 10:27 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	bonanza	25/05/07 03:26 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Chasseur	24/05/07 12:27 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	bonanza	23/05/07 10:17 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	24/05/07 02:37 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	AzGuy	21/05/07 02:05 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Marrakai	22/05/07 01:03 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	NE450No2	22/05/07 04:08 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	19/05/07 11:22 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	mehulkamdar	23/05/07 01:28 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	empirevr	19/05/07 09:49 PM

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