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Originally posted by JOHAN:
Overkill,

the only advantages, to my mind, a double has compared to a bolt action is that you have two separate actions in one, and that you can fire two rounds fast. To me doubles are stoppers/crushers and not much more, they are not ideal for long range shooting or to use a variety of loads. You mostly work up one softpoint and one solid.

It's made for close range fighting and should be easy to aim/fire by instinct. I'm a bolt action man soo, if I should choose a double it would be something like a 577 Nitro. The heavy 577 bullets have better SD than bullets from a 600. More work with less fuss

/ JOHAN

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Johan, you are quite correct in your assesment of where a DGR is used, up close! Because animals are only dangerous when they are close and angry, one must use what is most effecient up close! I believe the question was "How can people use a double rifle for dangerous game"

,The answer to that question is simply nothing is better, for that purpose! The features you list, as the only thing better in a double, are what makes it the best choice for DANGEROUS GAME!

I use a bolt rifle a lot, and you are right again, if one wants to plink at 300 yds on game, there is no better rifle made than a very accurate Bolt, or single shot rifle with a quality scope mounted, and adjusted to perfection. However, lets not get snipeing, and dangerous game hunting confused as being one thing, because they are not, and require different tools. As I said before game is only dangerous if close, and about to do you harm. Shooting Cape Buffalo, at 300 yds, or even 100 yds is NOT dangerous game hunting, but I can kill a cape buffalo as far with a double as you can with a bolt rifle! You shouldn't fall for this misconception, that a double rifle is only accurate at close range, I can ring the gong at 300 yds with any double rifle I have ever owned. That is simply a matter of knowing your rifle, and being able to shoot it, no different from shooting you bolt rifle. I watched a PH kill an Impala out past 250 yds with a 470NE double rifle, with one shot from the right barrel, but he had been shooting that rifle since he was a kid, the rifle belonged to his father before him.

Johan, nobody is puting bolt rifles down, I happen to own over 70 bolt action rifles, so I guess one could say I like them, where they are best. Dangerous game simply isn't their best use, given what constitutes DANGEROUS where game is concerned!

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Originally posted by JOHAN:
MacD37

No hard feelings chappy
Is everything crystal clear

/ JOHAN

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There weren't any hard feelings from my end, and I didn't think there was from your end! I guess I'm going to have to place a lot more smiley faces in my posts! It seems a lot of people take my matter 0f fact way of saying things as anger. Nothing could be farther from my intention!

I simply like to answer a question with as few routes for confusion as possible, and that comes out a little dry, I suppose. It makes little difference if anyone agrees with me or not, that is not my purpose in answering a question, that I know the answer to. The answers ,opinions, and examples I present, are sold for the price the reader is willing to pay. The tag isn't high, because I only paid in time to learn them from someone else.

[ 10-01-2002, 00:08: Message edited by: MacD37 ]

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Simi autos are prone to jamming, they are not allowed by law in ANY African country for hunting purposes....

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I agree they should be called "jamomatic" and be fitted with bayonet lug from factory. I guess the only chance is to have bayonet on or use it as a club if it jams

I have never owned a jamomatic for hunting and will never do soo.

/ JOHAN