Here�s something I�ve seen or heard of before, a bolt action double rifle!! A double rifle with a magazine (2-3 shots per barrel), and a bolt action � a double with 6 or 8 shots!!
And not in some �Mickey Mouse� calibre either - .458, .470 etc.
The bolt operated both barrels, regardless of whether both had been fired, so you could eject an un-fired case, but you�ve got lots more. They were also fitted with double triggers.
And they could be had in �side by side� or �over and under� configuration.

I don�t know if they are still being made � doubt it. A Hungarian who was living in Canada, by the name of Joseph Szecsei, was making them.
He apparently was only making them (8 off at the time of writing) for fun, and not commercially, seemingly though there were �other interested parties� who wanted to take them into production. I wonder what happened to them.

I read about it in the 1995 Gun Digest � 49th edition, that someone lent to me.

Bush baby

I saw an advert for them in a recent edition of the Hatari Times. They look odd.

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Regards

Richard

They were made a while back, and only 8 or 10 were ever made, and each was different than the others. IMO, they never got passed the proto-type stage. They were as heavy for caliber as a 3 ft section of railroad iron, and again, IMO, they were nothing but an accident waiting to happen. Give me a well ballanced S/S double rifle chambered for anything from a 450/400 3", to a 500 NE, and I will take on the baddest biter on Earth! I can't immageon anything more dangerous than a push feed rifle, with two barrels, and two magazines, and two jam prone actions, plus a mad Cape Buffalo! JEEEZZZZ!

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DUGABOY DESIGNS
Collector/trader of fine double rifles, and African wildlife art

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yes, they are now in production and are very expensive and about as usefull as tits on a bore hog.....

For those wierd individual that must always have something different contact:

Gerhard Fuchs 43(0)512-58-7267, A-6020 Innsbruck/Austria
OR
Joseph Szecei o11-(519)-966-1234 Windsor, ONt. N8X 3Z1, Canada

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Ray Atkinson

ray@atkinsonhunting.com
atkinsonhunting.com

Here is the web page.

http://www.jagdwaffe.com/

cj

I handled one, too, at SCI '99. They are a machinest's tour de force, a veritable wonder of mechanical design and absolutely too weird to imagine. And yet, while I was standing there wondering to myself "What ARE they thinking . . . with?!" one of Ray's weird individuals who just have to have something different wrote out a check for $30,000! That's no typo, there are four zeros after that three. Amazing

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Got on the website and after bumling through the German I found the pictures. It would appear to be an over/under with offset barrels to make possible the magazines. The left/high barrel must have a full depth magazine and the right/lower a shallow magazine. Below the picture it said U.$ 98,000.