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Gents: Just curious as to the animals you have taken with double rifles, and with what rifles? I'll begin: 4 water buffalo, 2 wildebeest, 4 hippo, 3 cape buff, feral pig, white tail, javelina, 2 bison, 4 caribou, leopard, lion, croc, nyala, warthog, grizzly, giraffe, eland. The double rifles used were: .500 Mortimer black powder express (1890), .450-400 Harrison and Hussey box lock ejector (1920), .450 no2 best quality Lang box lock (1904), .600 Wilkes (1914), 4-bore Hughes (about 1890). What say you? Mention your rifles to differentiate between vintage UK, European, and modern, please. And, of course, caliber. Thanks. This should make for some interesting tabulation. 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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Water Buffalo (too many to count), Scrub Bull (a couple), Pig (quite a few / 20+), Fox (1), Dingo (10+), Kangaroo. Westley Richards Boxlock 500 Nitro, Army and Navy Boxlock 500 Nitro Westley Richards Boxlock 500/465, Merkel 470 Merkel 375H&H Others that have been on the same hunt or in use at the same time. Army Navy 577 NfB Simpson 318WR Jeffrey 450/400 English Back action sidelock 450 NfB and a few others. That's what I can remember. Previously 500N with many thousands of posts ! | |||
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Four cape buffalo, a tuskless elephant and an eland. Searcy Deluxe .470NE Searcy Classic .450/400 Searcy Field Grade .500NE | |||
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Cape Buffalo, Zebra, Elephants, Kudu, Impala, Kongoni, Black Wildebeest, Warthogs, Feral Hogs and some Whitetails... Westley-Richards .450/.400 3 1/4" pre-WWI, apparently for India since it had a tiger and guar engraved. Cogswell & Harrison .475 3 1/4" between wars (made for an Indian DSC holder and MajGen, eventual first Commandant of Indian military academy. Cogswell & Harrison .375 2 1/2" pre-WWI, Frank Beller has it, alas! Lyon & Lyon .450/.400 3" , made for India trade and in pristine condition (sold it like an idiot back in the 1990's). Merkel 141(e) in 9.3x74 Various Searcys in .450 N.E., .470, and .450/.400 and hopefully I'll have delivery soon on a long-bar/round action .450 N.E. in a month or so. Baikals in .308 (over and under) and .45/70 JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous. | |||
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With a Siace 45-70 have taken deer, feral hogs and coyote. With Webley 450-400 3 1/4 have taken several deer. With Chapuis 470 have taken warthog,kudu,blesbok,wildebeest,two buffalo, tuskless elephant,baboon and a black angus bull that went wild. With VC 577 have taken buffalo bull elephant and deer. With Sabatti 500 have taken deer and a bunch of water buffalo. Soon will be shooting my Heym 577 in Africa. Sam | |||
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A large feral Boar with 470 Merk 140. Several deer with my 9.3 chap.n I was with in seconds of killing a nice black bear with my 9.3 but he pulled out just before I had taken up tha last of the trigger pull We were drifting down river .I was waiting to get to a100 yards. Just has we. Got in range the water got ruff .I was timeing my shot and was going to let him have it. He. Jumped into the ferns. JD DRSS 9.3X74 tika 512 9.3X74 SXS Merkel 140 in 470 Nitro | |||
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SO far Bull Elephant and Warthog....... . | |||
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1 bull elephant 3 tuskless elephant 3 cape buffalo 2 kudu 1 warthog 1 male lion 1 common duiker 1 klipspringer 1 grysbuck 2 giraffe 1 black bear several wild hogs several whitetail deer Chapuis 9.3X74R Merkel 500NE VC 577NE and later this year, looking to use my VC 500NE for another bull elephant. Also hope to add leopard and more bait animals to the 9.3's credit. | |||
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Several whitetail deer and wild hogs plus one rabbit and one coyote with a Searcy PH model 450/400. One whitetail doe with a Pedersoli Kodiak .72 caliber muzzleloader. I took delivery of a new VC .450 NE back in June, so hopefully the list of game taken with doubles will be growing soon. DRSS | |||
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With Searcy 470: 1 bull elephant 3 cape buffalo 1 american bison 1 dry land hippo With H and H 500-465: 1 scrub bull With Searcy 450-400: 1 american bison 1 white tail deer 1 coyote ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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One elephant three ground squirrels Merkel 470NE SCI Life Member NRA Patron Life Member DRSS | |||
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Three Jackrabbits and three cottontails, Searcy 577. With my 30-06 Baikal a few ground squirrels, I didn't really count, maybe five or six. I have however killed hundreds of rocks with those as well as with my VC 577, Pedersoli .58, Army and Navy 360 2 1/4NE, and a monoblocked .357. Matthew | |||
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I like that. From one extreme to the other !!! Previously 500N with many thousands of posts ! | |||
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Greater Kudu Impala Eland cow Axis doe Feral hogs Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Bull Elephant w/Merkel 500NE. Mike ______________ DSC DRSS (again) SCI Life NRA Life Sables Life Mzuri IPHA "To be a Marine is enough." | |||
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With Merkel 470NE: One bull elephant One buffalo With Searcy 450-400 Three Buffalo | |||
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Perugini-Visini: Several whitetail deer black bear Searcy 450 NE: tuskless elephant 2 cape buffalo zebra wildebeest blesbok impala feral hog 4 warthogs | |||
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One cape buff-Searcy 500NE Two rock chucks-Jeffery 450#2 Two rock chucks-Jeffery 450/400 Tom ...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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Africa: - 1 Cape Buffalo - 1 Bushpig - 1 Bushbuck EU: - 20+? Red Deer (stags, hinds and calves), - 20+? boars - 2 Roebucks - 1 mouflon Merkel 140 in 9,3x74R with Ghost sights. | |||
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Todd Williams wants clarification. Do you mean animals he's shot at with a double rifle, or animals he's actually killed with one....because in his case, there's a HUGE variation in those numbers :-) | |||
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1 cape buffalo just a few weeks ago. Just beginning! Heym 470 | |||
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Biebs: Keep giving Todd shit and he may add your name to his list! Cheers, mate. 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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German Kersten 9.3 x 74R - 1 zebra (Zim), 1 red stag (NZ) Charles Lancaster 450/400 3 1/4"NE - 1 bull elephant, 2 buffalo, 1 lion (all Zimbabwe) Holland & Holland Royal 500/465 NE - 2 bull elephant (Tanzania & Namibia) | |||
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Oh that T-U-R-D is on my list alright!!  | |||
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17 buffalo 10 pigs 3 wild dogs 1 donkey Merkel .500NE | |||
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My Dad, brother and best mate have each killed a buffalo with it in addition to the ones I've killed. | |||
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So what's it like when you shoot a rabbit with a .577? It can't be pretty.  | |||
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I consider that a badge of honor!!! :-) | |||
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303-Whitetail deer and turkey 45-70-Coyote, 4 whitetail deer and feral pig 450 NE#2-Blue wildebeeste, giraffe, eland, whitetail deer, and javelina 500/416-elephant, eland, 3 wild cattle in Zimbabwe and whitetial deer Perry | |||
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MERKEL 470 2-BULL ELEPHANTS 1-CAPE BUFFALO | |||
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I have also shot a croc with a double. Is that a small club? | |||
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With my 450NE, a bunch of montana tree squirrels for practise, frontal brained an ele at 9 1/2 yds (the practise paid off!) and a crap load of barbel catfish for fun while killing some time one day! "The difference between adventure and disaster is preparation." "The problem with quoting info from the internet is that you can never be sure it is accurate" Abraham Lincoln | |||
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Matthew[/QUOTE] So what's it like when you shoot a rabbit with a .577? It can't be pretty. [/QUOTE]It depends where you hit them  Two of the cottontails were eaten and one was eaten by small bugs as it was spread out over about 10 feet. One jack was ripped to shreads, one was decapitated and one was a clean pass through.Matthew | |||
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When are you going Sam? BTW the Zebra on your wall - was that with the Chapuis 470?
"When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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Hi Cal. A bunch. Hopefully this weekend will give me a sanity break so I can reply. Deo Vindice, Don Sons of Confederate Veterans Black Horse Camp #780 | |||
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3 Cape Buff 5 Asiatic Buff 3 pigs 1 scrub bull 1 zebra 1 deer 1 warthog 1 dik dik 1 hartebeest 1 hyaena Sure I'm forgetting something | |||
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.22 Hornet: untold rabbits, squirrels, and a coyote .303 British: 2 Russian boars, eland, grey duiker, blue wildebeest, red hartebeest, nyala, 2 warthogs .450 #2 NE: Russian boar, cape buffalo, sable, klipspringer, Chobe bushbuck 12 gauge: 11 whitetail deer, 2 coyotes.        | |||
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Gents: Thanks for your replies. I should have asked for photos, too! It's been great reading what we all love to do with our beloved doubles. Keep 'em coming. Cheers, 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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  The versatility of the Browning Continental O/U, .30-06 & 20 Gauge! Chukar, Pheasant, Groundhog, Coyote, Whitetail Deer, Black Bear, Kudu, Bushbuck, Impala, Baboon, Guinea Fowl... must of missed a few too! Yes I forgot numerous Crows & Turkeys.  Member NRA, SCI- Life #358 28+ years now! DRSS, double owner-shooter since 1983, O/U .30-06 Browning Continental set. | |||
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