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One piece of advice I'd offer if you do buy a double is learn to shoot it properly...... I reckon at least half of the guys who arrive with doubles to hunt with me, can't shoot them as well as they should and/or as well as they think they can. - Don't be afraid to fit a scope with QD mounts as part of this....... it might not look as classical as an unscoped double, but it helps a great deal in the (esp first) shot placement..... and trophy fees are expensive.

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See that a lot too at our DRSS hunts. Double discharges, yanking the same trigger a second time for the next shot, always firing the left barrel first because they haven't mastered double triggers yet and are afraid of a double discharge, etc. The first double rifle for most guys is a .470, and that's usually a bad mistake. Too often the result is a guy who is trying to learn double guns in general and heavy double rifles in particular at the same time - with a gun they can't stand shooting enough to get them through the learning curve, so they never really master them. They end up in the field with a capable rifle that just isn't second nature.

Far better to start with one of the lighter mediums, say .400/.350 or similar, and use it exclusively for ordinary game at home for a few years. Then the heavy double will be far easier to master and much more likely to become second nature as it should be.

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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

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