Hello All,
Here are a couple pictures of the locks on this double rifle. The reason I removed them, is that today while shooting I had the rifle
"double" on me. When I fired the right barrel, BOTH barrels fired. This happened on the 4th pair. WOW ! !
Normally the recoil from shooting this 8-1/4 pound rifle with a 325g bullet traveling 1560 fps, is about 17.7 ft/lbs. That's not bad from an 8-1/4 pound rifle. However, when it "doubled", the recoil spiked to 71 ft/lbs. This is the first time this has happened in over 100 shots, but 71 ft/lbs of recoil really hurts from an 8-1/4 pound rifle.
This is why I removed the locks. I thoroughly cleaned and oiled them, and tightened a few loose screws. I'm hoping that this won't happen again.
