Older manufacture - The H&H design was copied by some UK and continental makers after the patent expired, Webley & Scott apparently among them. Westley Richards made something similar (Explora, Faunetta) but, as I understand it, they favored the rifle purpose more than the shotgun purpose and weighed a bit more accordingly. My personal belief is that H&H Paradox gun strikes the best balance between rifle and shotgun.
As far as new manufacture - I don't think so. At least I haven't heard of any other than H&H. Westley Richards was supposedly working on something in the 20 bore but I don't know the status of their project.
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Until the appearance of the Paradox, "ball & shot" guns had been either good with ball and poor with shot or good with shot and poor with ball. The Paradox was such a great success because it did so well as BOTH a shotgun and a rifle - paradoxically. So, when the man said comparable to the Holland's Paradox I immediately discounted numerous and various general "ball & shot" guns and designs that appeared before the Paradox patent expired.
Again, I focused on the word comparable ("...other comparable firearms out there?").
Londonhunter, did I misinterpret the question?
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Originally posted by Fallow Buck: IIRC i saw something similar at sci last year by an american maker . they also had a 20b double rifle that i thought would make a great pig gun.
maybe dig will remember the maker. they were not expensive and were selling really well.
