What animals have you taken with double rifles?

12 August 2013, 09:14

cal pappas

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

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12 August 2013, 09:51

505G

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.

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12 August 2013, 15:07

JudgeG

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.

12 August 2013, 15:15

srose

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

12 August 2013, 20:58

J D

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

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12 August 2013, 21:17

Todd Williams

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.

12 August 2013, 21:17

degoins

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.

12 August 2013, 23:01

Palmer

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

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13 August 2013, 00:25

Matthewx

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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13 August 2013, 03:21

mouse93

Africa:

- 1 Cape Buffalo
- 1 Bushpig
- 1 Bushbuck

EU:

- 20+? Red Deer (stags, hinds and calves),
- 20+? boars
- 2 Roebucks
- 1 mouflon

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13 August 2013, 03:31

Biebs

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 :-)

13 August 2013, 07:53

Jungleboy

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)

13 August 2013, 19:05

subsailor74

quote:
Originally posted by Matthewx:
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

So what's it like when you shoot a rabbit with a .577? It can't be pretty.

13 August 2013, 21:03

PWN375

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

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14 August 2013, 00:58

JCS271

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!

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14 August 2013, 01:27

Matthewx

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

15 August 2013, 02:19

Nakihunter

When are you going Sam?

BTW the Zebra on your wall - was that with the Chapuis 470?

quote:
Originally posted by srose:
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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15 August 2013, 06:53

ron vella

.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.

15 August 2013, 08:59

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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.