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Todd Wouldn't it be funny. Shitaway puts all of us on ignore and we all have him on ignore. Would make for a very interesting thread read !!! Previously 500N with many thousands of posts ! | |||
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I've put him on "ignore" a couple of times, but it then became very difficult to make any sense of threads that contained missing posts from him. Of course, removing him from "ignore" and thus restoring the posts made those threads even more incomprehensible. | |||
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I put the little psycho on ignore a couple of days ago. It's like having an irritating squeal removed from your environment.. Very nice. | |||
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Promises, promises.. Don't go away mad! just go away! NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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Shootaway, the short answer is Westley Richards! The long answer is I like all QUALITY double rifles! If it means anything I have owned many different double rifles by many different makers and Westley Richards is simply my favorite! .....................................................................BYE  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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Everyone likes Holland, Purdey, and WR so I'll put in my vote for Lang and Wilkes. Cal _______________________________ Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska www.CalPappas.com www.CalPappas.blogspot.com 1994 Zimbabwe 1997 Zimbabwe 1998 Zimbabwe 1999 Zimbabwe 1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation 2000 Australia 2002 South Africa 2003 South Africa 2003 Zimbabwe 2005 South Africa 2005 Zimbabwe 2006 Tanzania 2006 Zimbabwe--vacation 2007 Zimbabwe--vacation 2008 Zimbabwe 2012 Australia 2013 South Africa 2013 Zimbabwe 2013 Australia 2016 Zimbabwe 2017 Zimbabwe 2018 South Africa 2018 Zimbabwe--vacation 2019 South Africa 2019 Botswana 2019 Zimbabwe vacation 2021 South Africa 2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later) ______________________________ | |||
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Okay, I understand now.
My favorite was a little Manton & Co. that was built by Webley & Scott. It was originally chambered for .22 HP (Savage) but had been rebored to 25-35 Win. I liked it because I couldn't shoot it as fast as my AR-15 so it never got too hot. It was small and light and much easier on the hip then my .454 revolver, though I had to spend extra to special order a custom double rifle Kydex holster. I found a very easy way to clean it. I would run a long piece of Hoppe's soaked yarn through one barrel, back through the other barrel, and back again several times. Then I would light the end of the yarn with a match, put my foot on the barrels, and yank with all my might. With one good pull the barrels would be cleaned, lubed, and cauterized to new condition. Try that with your Westley or Rigby! The metal work was superb and it never rusted, even after that time I got stuck with a breakdown in the Adirondacks and had to use it as an expedient axle for an old Land Rover. The stock had a tremendous amount of figure, especially for dogwood, and it was checkered in a traditional 2 point basket-weave pattern and adorned with exquisite carvings of barnyard animals. I was nearly always able to shoot two 1" groups side-by-side at 100 yards with only 18" between them. The sights were traditional British but only had 1 sitting and two laying down - none were standing. Part of the reason the rifle was so accurate was because I had an old Etruscan gunsmith fit it with a scope made out of the handlebars of a Schwinn Typhoon bicycle. There was no glass in the scope but the aperture was small enough that it provided just the right amount of clarity and magnification without a wide and bothersome field of view. Anyone who has done any amount of shooting at all knows exactly what I am talking about. I took many animals with it and most of them are dead now. Unfortunately, I sold it several years ago while having an unexpected attack of personal economic crisis. I let it go for a handful of what were purported to be special beans but I even lost those when they accidentally dropped between the floorboards of my cabin one rainy night. What happened that night and the following morning was a true adventure but I'll have to save that for later discussion because it is beyond the scope of this thread. | |||
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We have a winner!! ___________________________________________________________________________________ Give me the simple life; an AK-47, a good guard dog and a nymphomaniac who owns a liquor store. | |||
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NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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Well thought out and well articulated. But some may wind fault. | |||
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I want to hear more about the special beans.  And who the band will be at SCI!  | |||
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OK, I'll bite: Hartmann & Weiss  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” ― Rudyard Kipling | |||
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Not a bad choice, they make beautiful guns. Previously 500N with many thousands of posts ! | |||
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My Famars 450#2 Africa Express. Rifle fits me supperbly. It is a unique double, Loading 450gr, 480gr, 500gr same load it puts them all in the same place. No tweeking of loads necessary. Mike  | |||
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Here is a good picture of John Sharp's 470 Rigby, made circa 1926:  USN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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Great photo, great rifle. Looks like a real ph rifle with no bluing left on the forward part of the right barrel. ...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men. -Edward, duke of York ". . . when a man has shot an elephant his life is full." ~John Alfred Jordan "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand Cogito ergo venor- KPete “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.” ― Adam Smith - “Wealth of Nations” | |||
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Are there no supporters for the Webley-Vickers 50.80? According to Thurber it is an excellent piece  | |||
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Pre 1900 - Alexander Henry/ Webley & Scott Post - H&H / WR Makers and retailers are often confused | |||
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Hi Mike, I sure like the FAMARS, very nice double. | |||
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+1 Very nice. | |||
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That Farmars looks great with such voluptuous fences, Retreever. Are the velocities of the different loads all the same? | |||
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