Older Brno Super Express Double Rifles

[m1008]

Check out TGS outdoors on YouTube. Lots of info on British and other European guns

 

[sgt.rock]

I built the range, so tend to shoot there a lot, ....... still Chief Range Officer, .......... give me a call and I'll arrange a viewing of lots of doubles!

Barry

Hi Barry, Haha. I have been to your house before and bought primers and 357 brass from you! Just didn't know your CGN handle. Maybe I'll drop over some evening with Timmies and donuts for a quick ogling of the beauties!

 

[Arctic]

Hi Barry, Haha. I have been to your house before and bought primers and 357 brass from you! Just didn't know your CGN handle. Maybe I'll drop over some evening with Timmies and donuts for a quick ogling of the beauties!

Give a call and plan to come early or like most, you'll suddenly realize that it's midnight and there's more to see1

 

[medvedqc]

O/u doubles don't get the respect they deserve. Blame the British. They set that style. I actually prefer the O/U configuration in both rifles and shotguns. It's interesting to me that the shotgun sports have recognized the superiority of the O/U configuration in double guns, but in the rifle world, side by side gets way more attention. I feel that is the triumph of nostalgia over function. Nobody keeps track of target scores shot with a double rifle. I have O/U and SxS in both rifles and shotguns, and like them all. But an O/U rifle is almost always underpriced for what it actually can do. They are easier to shoot accurately, easier to regulate, and are slimmer in the hand. They respond to mounting a scope much better without shifting point of impact so much.

i agree with all you wrote but the world is telling for double express than over under are really harder and longer to refill with the second batch of cartridges ... not that i agree with that but seems the aristocracy is into that look how heym as to come with the british look to have a wider audience.

 

[Longwalker]

Yes I always laugh when I re-read the often repeated and untrue opinion that a side by side rifle is "quicker to reload" than an over / under. My experience with shotguns proves to me anyway that there is no practical difference. I've shot a lot of flocks of incoming geese 4x with an O/U shotgun, ( take the first two, reload, and get two more before the flock departs) and have done it quite a few times with a SxS shotgun too. If there is a microsecond of difference in reloading speed, I haven't been able to tell. Neither can the geese. Nobody's explained to me why rifles are different than shotguns in reloading speed. So I believe there is no difference. Just supposition, tradition, and bias.

But that said, I do like the look of Heym's new SxS Model 89B double rifle, it's best of both worlds - German engineering and British style nicely combined.