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It's interesting that almost every India or Africa shooting book published between 1900 and 1910 or so contains praise of the Paradox. It looks almost like a miracle that this wonderful weapon was almost competely out of use just a decade or two later...

Not if you consider the reasons behind or for the development of the paradox gun in the 1880's and the popular uses of the paradox (the 12 bores) after 1900. Originally a gun to carry when searching for food for the pot and not knowing what game might be encountered including DGame which might make a meal of the hunter. It did fulfill that purpose. In India it was used extensively for snap shooting driven game from the Howdah. The two world wars changed the world, India in particular and Africa. It would be interesting to know the number of double rifles in general built after 1945

The Indian Maharaja's and Nizam's used the paradox and continued to order them until the 30's. These guys lived and breathed hunting. You didn't pull the wool over their eyes.


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All of that is agreed. Mixed bag hunting including things that could eat you was the order of the day and Injua was the home of that more than Africa.

This is exactly why I want to get one.

And for anyone interested a new set of dies, regulator, nose pins, and crimper are available from Steve Coker.

The amazing thing is how long it took to reinvent this capability, and then, not so well as originally done. My Evans is a 2.5 inch four-shot grouper at 100 yards and still throws modified patterns of no. 6 shot. A RBL "Professional" (20ga sxs rifled slug gun)will be lucky to shoot a four-shot group that tightly and won't shoot shot in any sort of usable pattern.