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Your comment is what I have been told. They handle like a game gun and that is the reason I would want one and would use it as that. The pig killing part is the bonus and 100-150 yds. with the standard, WR Explora round, would be plenty for me.

The 24-26" of freebore is the reason the slug doesn't create much recoil in a 7 lb. gun.

What is not to like?

docbill,
If you found a drilling "clunky" for a shotgun,I would bet "a dollar to a donut" that your experience was with a 12 ga(maybe even with long barrels in 30-06).In my limited experience with a paradox (handle only,not "use")I found it "clunky" and "muzzle heavy".I suggest, before you spend the exorbitant price of a real Paradox, you give a 16 ga drilling with 60 cm (23 1/2")barrels a try.Every time I investigated a complaint that a Drilling is "clunky",too heavy, "gawky", or "unhandy"; it turned out that the drilling they tried was a 12 ga(usually also in 30-06 or 243).
Mike

I have an Evans Paradox which was built just after the turn of the century. It is a 2.5 inch gun which shoots Ross Seyfried's load into a LxR/LxR 2.5 inch group with almost boring regularity. It firest the new H&H loads into a 4 inch overlapping group. A few years ago, in Namibia, I rolled warthogs and shot sand grouse with it at the same water hole (It throws beautiful modified patterns).

Should you decide to buy one, inspect it very closely. Many have seen the attention of gun butchers who one way or another have destroyed the rifling or regulation. I saw one in the Fort Worth Cabelas not long ago which had clearly had the rifling bored out of it.

A drilling with a quick dismountable scope is hard to beat for the work you describe. The same investment will get you an almost new condition drilling in a useful caliber. Most will have claw bases, and someone like JJ Perodeau at Champlin Arms can make a set of rings to fit. The good ones are quite light, and even with a cheek piece, tend to be natural pointing guns.

I have an Evans Paradox which was built just after the turn of the century. It is a 2.5 inch gun which shoots Ross Seyfried's load into a LxR/LxR 2.5 inch group with almost boring regularity. It firest the new H&H loads into a 4 inch overlapping group. A few years ago, in Namibia, I rolled warthogs and shot sand grouse with it at the same water hole (It throws beautiful modified patterns).

Should you decide to buy one, inspect it very closely. Many have seen the attention of gun butchers who one way or another have destroyed the rifling or regulation. I saw one in the Fort Worth Cabelas not long ago which had clearly had the rifling bored out of it.

A drilling with a quick dismountable scope is hard to beat for the work you describe. The same investment will get you an almost new condition drilling in a useful caliber. Most will have claw bases, and someone like JJ Perodeau at Champlin Arms can make a set of rings to fit. The good ones are quite light, and even with a cheek piece, tend to be natural pointing guns.

"IF" you get the same weight of bullet out the end of the barrel @ the same speed, don't count on that free bore cutting out any recoil.

Wow the puzzling paradoxes, muzzle heavy, punishing recoil, failure to regulate and... costly. Now that is a paradox, isn't it.

Aptly named, heh?

What is the Ross Seyfried load? I have an explora in 12 I would like to load for.

Thanks

For perusal;

Ross published an article in either Handloader or Rifle in 2004. From memory is is 21 gr. Unique, an over powder card, 2 felt wads and the cast lead bullet. All of this in a Fed. paper hull. Look up the article for exact loading and particulars.