doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Two more (Gasp) Continental doubles

Those who know and tolerate me would usually credit me with being as blindly loyal to Brit guns as possible. Sure, bolt actions are an exception since the Brits only ever made one family (Enfields) and they didn't make up too well into hunting weapons, but doubles???

It seems it's my month for broadening horizons. First, there was the Bruchet/Darne that Ted so exactly identified and which I quite like.

Now, it's a rifle. Last year, there were two double rifles in 9.3X74R going at Christie's. Since they were adjacent lots, I listened to both, bid and got them at astonishingly low prices. I had rather expected this, since these are not especialy popular guns in the UK. The first is a single trigger Chapuis SxS BLE fitted with a Schmidt & Bender 1.5X5 scope in claw mounts. The second in a Krieghoff Ultra O/U BLNE with double triggers and a giant 2.5X10 Zeiss on pivoy mounts that only a Teuton could love.

Well, I took them out to the range and, after a bit of fiddling with the scopes, both would shoot sub 2" groups at 100 yds with Norma factory loads. Let's just say I have some "names" that don't do that.

The most surprising is the Chapuis. It's light and beautifully balanced, swings like a good duck gun. Both are good, but the Chapuis is a real keeper. Be great for plains game or large NA game. It opens itself and comes right onto aim on my shoulder. What more could a lad ask?

Let's see, I already like French wine, cheese, ...., and even some French Opera. Now it's Darne and Chapuis. If anyone is looking for me, I'm off being fitted for a beret.

I think about the only thing you've left-out are Jerry Lewis movies?

A good friend of mine has a Chapuis BLE in 9.3X74R with a scope in pivot mounts. He's taken it to Africa twice as a second rifle to a .450 No. 2 double (he's never taken a bolt rifle to Africa) and is headed off to Zim again with the same pair next month. It's very accurate. He's taken plains game with it out to 300 yards, in addition to elephant and giraffe. They're amazing little rifles and are an incredible value for the money.
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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

Slugs are difficult.....

There are particular (and onerous)licensing requirements that most people wouldn't want to go through. Gaining a rifle licence is pretty easy and straightforward.

Having no very large game in UK, slugs don't really figure these days. Even when things were much easier on the legislative front, they were never much seen. In those high and far off times I used buckshot (Special SG) for fallow deer; now regardeded as all very unsporting and infra dig.

Have fun with the new toys.

Eug

Slugs are difficult.....

There are particular (and onerous)licensing requirements that most people wouldn't want to go through. Gaining a rifle licence is pretty easy and straightforward.

Having no very large game in UK, slugs don't really figure these days. Even when things were much easier on the legislative front, they were never much seen. In those high and far off times I used buckshot (Special SG) for fallow deer; now regarded as all very unsporting and infra dig.

Have fun with the new toys.

Eug

Slugs are difficult.....

There are particular (and onerous)licensing requirements that most people wouldn't want to go through. Gaining a rifle licence is pretty easy and straightforward.

Having no very large game in UK, slugs don't really figure these days. Even when things were much easier on the legislative front, they were never much seen. In those high and far off times I used buckshot (Special SG) for fallow deer; now regarded as all very unsporting and infra dig.

Have fun with the new toys.

Eug [/QB][/QUOTE]

Eug,
Just where in Wales are you? I go over to Powys once a year to shoot high birds with Gwyn Evans. It's a truly beautiful part of the world and I spend much of the year longing for my next trip back.
Leo

Congratulations, Leo. If 'ya decide to peddle the Zeiss, let me know. I've a VZ 24 in .257 Roberts Ackley Improved that needs 'glass. I'm a bolt guy myself. With a laminate stock, Timney trigger, Dakota 70 style safety, Redfield mounts, Brownells barrel, bolt, and sling, this one is accurate out to yardage that should be illegal. It isn't really anything to look at, however.

Never mind Thorny, he's still sore from taking it up the pipe so badly on his Paris sidelock before he discovered Americana implement guns. Wish I had known him then, I'd have screwed him without even kissing him either, same as the other dealer did.
Best,
Ted

Thats a little ruff Ted!
I think you have a future writing modern romance novels tho

If the truth be known, I once took a girl to a Jerry Lewis movie. But that was in another country and.............
:rolleyes: