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444 · April 25, 2013, 05:12 PM

I am really interested in hearing about your trip to the range.

That is a good looking rifle. I too have looked at those in the catalogs for years and thought it was very cool. Like you, I have always been intrigued by double rifles. But, I can't justify buying one. I will settle for hearing about yours. I think my facination with double rifles stems from when I was a kid at the local sportsmans club. A guy showed up one day with a MONSTER double rifle (cartridge rifle). I was too young to know what cartridge this gun fired, but as I remember, he had three rounds of ammo. They were far bigger than a 12 guage shotgun shell. He fired ONE round, missed badly, and put it away. It was a very fine, high end, British double rifle, probably intended for an elephant safari in India. I would imagine that today, that rifle is worth six figures.
Not that this matters, but this was (and is) a red neck club where you almost never see any kind of high end gear and if you do it is almost certainly a shotgun for trap shooting. This express rifle was VERY out of place.

April 25, 2013, 05:12 PM	#13
444 Senior Member Join Date: November 20, 2000 Location: Ohio Posts: 3,968	I am really interested in hearing about your trip to the range. That is a good looking rifle. I too have looked at those in the catalogs for years and thought it was very cool. Like you, I have always been intrigued by double rifles. But, I can't justify buying one. I will settle for hearing about yours. I think my facination with double rifles stems from when I was a kid at the local sportsmans club. A guy showed up one day with a MONSTER double rifle (cartridge rifle). I was too young to know what cartridge this gun fired, but as I remember, he had three rounds of ammo. They were far bigger than a 12 guage shotgun shell. He fired ONE round, missed badly, and put it away. It was a very fine, high end, British double rifle, probably intended for an elephant safari in India. I would imagine that today, that rifle is worth six figures. Not that this matters, but this was (and is) a red neck club where you almost never see any kind of high end gear and if you do it is almost certainly a shotgun for trap shooting. This express rifle was VERY out of place. __________________ You know the rest. In the books you have read How the British Regulars fired and fled, How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard wall, Chasing the redcoats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.