Worth a look, just for the photos. Double Rifles And Why They Matter - GUNS Magazine
The photos at the link above are mostly from Westley Richards, but that isn't a problem. And they have included photos of a couple of Nitro Express rounds, including the massive 700 Nitro Express.
The photo I've included at the top/right is from the Purdey website, and includes a closeup view of the sort of engraving you often find on a double rifle.
Doubles are expensive, usually starting in the five-figure range and promptly adding a zero when you move into the better-known English maisons such as Purdey, Holland & Holland or Westley Richards. Perhaps because the mechanics of building one make them so expensive, doubles are often finely engraved and built with stunningly beautiful wood since a buyer who can afford $50,000 for a rifle can probably manage the extra expense to make it pretty. It’s ironic to think of hunters caked in dirt, low-crawling through thorns, while clutching a rifle which belongs in an art museum. Chalk it up with the other paradoxes of Africa.
Anyway, click thru and enjoy. (Hat tip to Keep and Bear Arms.)
How they are made. Enjoy.
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Thanks for that... but I have this thing about links
DeleteSo here is the Holland & Holland video linked above
For a double rifle of functional beauty, take a look at Jim Corbett's 400/450 double. It looks as if it was sold "in the white", but there is bluing under the fore-end. The man carried it and used it so much that all the outer blue was worn off. (He killed ten verified man-eaters: eight tigers and two leopards)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdjulia/item/1038-373/ Here's a link to some pictures of the rifle I mentioned. Should have done that sooner, sorry.
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