lets see your thick bush guns!
- Thread starter Canadiankeeper
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Yep..... Great for carrying indeed....
The 600 was designed as a guide rifle to be carried on a horse in a scabbard, in case your client or yourself was attacked by a bear the rifle could aimed like a shotgun for a quick shot. That was the theory in 1964 the rifle was discontinued a few years later bang goes the theory in this case
- Location
- Central AB
Nothing gives you 2 faster shots than a double. And as it is essentially 2 rifles attached, you have redundancy should a spring, firing pin etc break on one side, the other will still go bang.
I remember reading about a father/son team that hunted bear commercially early in the last century. They rendered them down to make gun oil. At the time bear oil was considered to be the best gun oil available, it didn't gum up, and resisted freezing better than anything else.
I can't recall exact numbers, but they were killing 30-40 bears a year. The father was absolutely convinced that hitting the bear with a very fast second shot was imperative, giving the bear no time to collect itself from the first shot before hit with the second one. He believed that given a few seconds between shots bears tended to rally and be much tougher to knock down, so accordingly believed a double rifle was superior for bear.
For their second season his son opted for one of the new fangled lever guns, believing that the extra follow up shots would be a bigger advantage, and traded away his double.
Anyway, after a season of having to shoot bears a half dozen times, while his dad never used more than two shots per bear, the boy sold the lever gun and bought another double.
Likely a good part of the issue was due to the lever gun being chambered in 44-40 and not having the energy to get deep penitration. But they were solidly of the belief that nothing was better than two lightning fast hits.
I remember reading about a father/son team that hunted bear commercially early in the last century. They rendered them down to make gun oil. At the time bear oil was considered to be the best gun oil available, it didn't gum up, and resisted freezing better than anything else.
I can't recall exact numbers, but they were killing 30-40 bears a year. The father was absolutely convinced that hitting the bear with a very fast second shot was imperative, giving the bear no time to collect itself from the first shot before hit with the second one. He believed that given a few seconds between shots bears tended to rally and be much tougher to knock down, so accordingly believed a double rifle was superior for bear.
For their second season his son opted for one of the new fangled lever guns, believing that the extra follow up shots would be a bigger advantage, and traded away his double.
Anyway, after a season of having to shoot bears a half dozen times, while his dad never used more than two shots per bear, the boy sold the lever gun and bought another double.
Likely a good part of the issue was due to the lever gun being chambered in 44-40 and not having the energy to get deep penitration. But they were solidly of the belief that nothing was better than two lightning fast hits.
Not grinding ya, but not likely to see a shotgun with a quarter rib and front sight.............just not used to seeing doubles I guess. The very first double I handled, I thought was a very heavy 410 until it was pointed out to me that is was a 450 NE............
Id think a semi offers just as fast a follow up, its ready to go again way before you are. You still need to aim.
- Location
- Central AB
I rarely hit the range with my double that someone doesn't ask if it's a 410. If it was a 600 nitro they'd be asking if it was a 12g.
Wasn't the guy telling the story Ned Roberts? I remember that story, and I think it took place in Northern Maine, if memory serves. Can't remember which book it's from. Single Shot Actions maybe?
Can honestly say I have never seen a semi in a 375 H&H or anything larger.........especially a 470 NE
- Location
- Central AB
No reason it can't be done, maybe based on the M2 browning, lol. But back to being serious, semis have a long action length, and this results in longer overall lengths. Whereas the action length in double rifles is very short, thus one of the reasons they are so quick handling. But for someone who's never used one, it's hard for them to understand just how quick and handy they are.
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Brno 602 rechambered to .375 Ultra, 22" barrel, NECG front and rear, McMillan stock . . .
FN-Winchester M-70 .458, 21" barrel, Nightforce 1-4X . . .
Ruger Vaquero in .44 magnum, dehorned, and front of trigger guard contoured by Bumblebee Custom Machine . . .
FN-Winchester M-70 .458, 21" barrel, Nightforce 1-4X . . .
Ruger Vaquero in .44 magnum, dehorned, and front of trigger guard contoured by Bumblebee Custom Machine . . .
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Pounder had a BAR built in .458, while it was a gentle shooter considering the horsepower, I found that the barrel was a bit heavy balance wise. I doubt it would shoot any faster than your Merkel, which doesn't have to wait for the gas to cycle the action.
Somebody modified a bar to shoot .416 taylor and did a write up on it in one of the american gun rags a few years ago.
That's the biggest civilian shoulder shooter sa I've ever heard of.
- Location
- The Conservative part of Ontario
Nothing wrong with the great old 99Savage either
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Now that would have made a good story wouldn't it.
Unfortunately the sequence wasn't nearly so dramatic . . .
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