Cape buffalo
Elephant
Wildebeest
Warthog
A pile o ferral hogs
Coyotes
Jack rabbits
Turtles & frogs (major airtime with a .470)

All with one of my two Searcy .470's

Game taken:

Whitetail and sika deer (a bunch!), bear, elk, turkey, fox, coyote, crow, elephant, lion, cape buffalo, kudu, sable, gemsbuck, waterbuck, springbuck, impala, hyena, zebra, warthog, black wildebeest, blue wildebeest.

Doubles used:

German Guild gun 9.3x72R
Walter Uhlig 8x60JR
Browning Centennial Continental .30-06
Browning Express .270
Browning Express 124 9.3x74R
Outschar .450 3 1/4" Nitro
Borovnik .375 H&H
Heym 88B 9.3x74R
Heym 88B .30-06
Heym 88B/SS .300 Win. Mag
Merkel 140-2 9.3x74R
Merkel 140-2 .500 Nitro
Verney-Carron .500 Nitro
Verney-Carron .577 Nitro
Cogswell&Harrison .375 2 1/2"
Midland .450 No.2
George Gibbs SLE .303
Joseph Lang .360 No.2
Charles Osbourne .450/.400 3 1/4"
Ad Jansen .450/.400 3 1/4"
Chapuis RGEX Series 3 6.5x57R
Holland & Holland .500 BPE
Holland & Holland .240 flanged
Westley Richards droplock .318 WR
Heym 37B 9.3x74R/9.3x74R/20 ga.
Schiwy 8x57JRS/8x57JRS/16 ga.
William Evans 12 bore Ball & Shot

Lion only. 500NE

Elephant, buffalo and impala.

My eighteenth buffalo with my Merky .500NE is cooling in the fridge! In a few days, the cooking begins!

Elephant(2), Buffalo(2), Feral Hogs (12)

Evans 470
Holland Royal Paradox 12 bore
Holland Royal 500/450
Jeffery SLE 450/400
Jeffery 450/400
Evans 400/360 (2)
Lang 450 3 1/4 bpe

Buff cows (2)
Zebra stallion
Warthogs

15yds ~ 50 yds

470 NE K gun Doctor Red Dot
Nitro

1 bobcat, 2 white tail deer.

One Red Deer hind 450 x 3 1/4" BPE

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Originally posted by John HM:
One Red Deer hind 450 x 3 1/4" BPE

Cool!!

One Cape Buffalo with a Merkel 470 so far

Just ate my first dinner from that eighteenth buffalo I mentioned, and it was divine! Who says the big old boys that take a hammering to down can't be eaten? Let it cool for a week, then use the slow cooker! Bloody awesome!

One only so far. A small whitetail buck at 100 yards with an A&N 577 bpe.

Dave

With Royal grade H&H in 465/500
one bull elephant
With Mahillion 416 Rigby double
3 cape buffalo
2 Hippos
Male lion
With D'Schulnigg 470 double
one huge feral hog

Tsessebe
Hyena
Zebra
Kudu

All with a Krieghoff 375 H&H

Just about everything that I’ve taken with any type rifle I’ve also taken with a double rifle of some chambering, over the last 55 years since I bought my first double rifle in 1958.

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Originally posted by MacD37:
Just about everything that I’ve taken with any type rifle I’ve also taken with a double rifle of some chambering, over the last 55 years since I bought my first double rifle in 1958.

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Mac,

What was your first double and what did you pay for it? If you don't mind saying.

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Originally posted by surestrike:

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Originally posted by MacD37:
Just about everything that I’ve taken with any type rifle I’ve also taken with a double rifle of some chambering, over the last 55 years since I bought my first double rifle in 1958.

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Mac,

What was your first double and what did you pay for it? If you don't mind saying.

My first double rifle was a very unusual one for its maker!

It was an H&H double that was made for someone in Austria between the wars and chambered for 9.3X74R. It was cased with all the tools and containers that come in H&H fitted rifle cases. It was a side lock with a fair amount of rose and scroll engraving. It was in mint condition, and I bought it from a friend in El Paso, Texas who owned a gun store called FIREARMS INCORPARATED. He called me because he new I had always wanted a double rifle, and said on the phone I have something I know you will want but you need to act.

The rifle cost me $900 USD and I had to borrow the money from my dad to buy it. NOW, I suppose you want to know why this pristine H&H double rifle was so cheap!
Well in 1958 a Holland & Holland Royal sold new for $2464.oo USD plus import tax, and shipping. None the less $900 was hard to justify for a rifle that I couldn’t shoot!

Well in West Texas in 1958 there weren’t two people beside me who wanted a double rifle of any make, and also in 1958 there wasn’t a box of 9.3X74R ammo in the whole of the USA, and components were not available for hand-loading either.

First it was brought back from Germany as a war souvenir, by a guy who retired from the Army a Fort Bliss, Texas and stayed in El Paso, and he had no idea what it was chambered for, and told my friend, who bought it from him, that when he got it he thought it was a 410 shotgun and just shipped it home. It was years before I knew what I let go!

I never got to shoot it, and finally traded it to a collector for a 375H&H Mauser rifle with a square bridge action with a 4X scope in claw mounts and express sights and engraved with German oak & leaf engraving. I wish I still had both rifles!

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Originally posted by DoubleDon:
Game taken:

Whitetail and sika deer (a bunch!), bear, elk, turkey, fox, coyote, crow, elephant, lion, cape buffalo, kudu, sable, gemsbuck, waterbuck, springbuck, impala, hyena, zebra, warthog, black wildebeest, blue wildebeest.

Doubles used:

German Guild gun 9.3x72R
Walter Uhlig 8x60JR
Browning Centennial Continental .30-06
Browning Express .270
Browning Express 124 9.3x74R
Outschar .450 3 1/4" Nitro
Borovnik .375 H&H
Heym 88B 9.3x74R
Heym 88B .30-06
Heym 88B/SS .300 Win. Mag
Merkel 140-2 9.3x74R
Merkel 140-2 .500 Nitro
Verney-Carron .500 Nitro
Verney-Carron .577 Nitro
Cogswell&Harrison .375 2 1/2"
Midland .450 No.2
George Gibbs SLE .303
Joseph Lang .360 No.2
Charles Osbourne .450/.400 3 1/4"
Ad Jansen .450/.400 3 1/4"
Chapuis RGEX Series 3 6.5x57R
Holland & Holland .500 BPE
Holland & Holland .240 flanged
Westley Richards droplock .318 WR
Heym 37B 9.3x74R/9.3x74R/20 ga.
Schiwy 8x57JRS/8x57JRS/16 ga.
William Evans 12 bore Ball & Shot

DoubleDon,

I thought I had an addictive personality. Man, you need to get some counseling for your double rifle addiction. Congrats on having the privilege to own and shoot so many fine doubles. Impressive!!!!

Mac,

Thanks for that.

Your story kind of reminds me of the P-51 mustang that sat in my dad's hangar for 20 years or so. I kept hearing that it just wasn't worth rebuilding "nobody wants these antiques".

He sold it to a collector and shipped it to Idaho. He sold it in the early 80's for 50K and thought he'd pulled a fast one. All it needed was to be reassembled and have some fresh hoses and a new radiator. The airplane was given to him......

If I could only have a time a machine!

Me, a Chapuis 9,3x74R, RSA in 2010; Kudu, Oryx, Waterbuck, and a Caracal.

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Originally posted by surestrike:
Mac,

Thanks for that.

Your story kind of reminds me of the P-51 mustang that sat in my dad's hangar for 20 years or so. I kept hearing that it just wasn't worth rebuilding "nobody wants these antiques".

He sold it to a collector and shipped it to Idaho. He sold it in the early 80's for 50K and thought he'd pulled a fast one. All it needed was to be reassembled and have some fresh hoses and a new radiator. The airplane was given to him......

And now worth between $500,000 and $2 million.


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Wildebeest (2) Hartebeest (2), texas whitetail & hogs. Hollis 450-400. Gotta make the cape buffalo happen. Bob

Two Cape Buffalo
One Kudu
One Impala
Several Whitetail Deer
Numerous Hogs
And One Very Large Red Eared Slider
Chapuis 9,3X74R

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Originally posted by 505G:

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Originally posted by surestrike:
Mac,

Thanks for that.

Your story kind of reminds me of the P-51 mustang that sat in my dad's hangar for 20 years or so. I kept hearing that it just wasn't worth rebuilding "nobody wants these antiques".

He sold it to a collector and shipped it to Idaho. He sold it in the early 80's for 50K and thought he'd pulled a fast one. All it needed was to be reassembled and have some fresh hoses and a new radiator. The airplane was given to him......

And now worth between $500,000 and $2 million.


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That one would be closer to the $2 mill mark I'm guessing as it was a very rare dive bomber variant of the Mustang.

Krieghoff .375H&H: not counted wild boars, roedeers. Few moose, one brown bear.

Krighoff .500 NE: huge wild boar, brown bear.

I ordered my Krieghoff O/U double rifle in the spring of 1970 and took delivery in the spring of 1971, in time to take it on my first trip to Africa in October 1971. It is caliber .458 Winchester Magnum, with interchangeable barrels in .375 H&H Magnum and 20gauge 3". The .458 barrels are fitted with a Lyman All American 2 1/2X scope, the .375 barrels with another AA scope in 3X.

I used it to take one elephant, two Cape buffalo, a lion, a leopard, an eland, a greater kudu and a lesser kudu. Nothing I shot with it left its tracks.

Nice pictures, Xausa! What do you have now?

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Originally posted by Roman BGH:
Nice pictures, Xausa! What do you have now?

I still have the same Krieghoff, plus one I had made for me in what I called the .450 C&W, a kind of rimmed .450 Watts, made using .375 Flanged Magnum brass, and a .405 Winchester on a S/S shotgun action.

My most recent acquisition is a Krieghoff Ulm Primus hand detachable sidelock O/U in 9.3X74R, with combination gun barrels in 16 gauge/7X75SE vom Hofe, with a full length insert barrel in 6X52R Brettschneider (.22 Savage High Power opened up to 6mm), and a pair of 16 gauge shot barrels.

I have aother Krieghoff O/U at my German gunsmith's which I would like to have fitted with .500 NE and 450/400 barrel sets, if I live that long.

Here's a good portion of what I've taken with a Double;

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Originally posted by xausa:
I still have the same Krieghoff, plus one I had made for me in what I called the .450 C&W, a kind of rimmed .450 Watts, made using .375 Flanged Magnum brass, and a .405 Winchester on a S/S shotgun action.

My most recent acquisition is a Krieghoff Ulm Primus hand detachable sidelock O/U in 9.3X74R, with combination gun barrels in 16 gauge/7X75SE vom Hofe, with a full length insert barrel in 6X52R Brettschneider (.22 Savage High Power opened up to 6mm), and a pair of 16 gauge shot barrels.

I have aother Krieghoff O/U at my German gunsmith's which I would like to have fitted with .500 NE and 450/400 barrel sets, if I live that long.

Why do you prefer O/U?

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Originally posted by ozhunter:
Here's a good portion of what I've taken with a Double

Thanks for sharing! I think pictures are much better than just a list

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Originally posted by Roman BGH:
Why do you prefer O/U?

I suppose it's because of my long history of shotgun competition with O/U guns. In fact, the measurements for my original Krieghoff stock were taken from my Perazzi international skeet gun. Although I own several S/S shotguns and have attended courses at Holland and Holland's London shooting school, I have never felt as at home with the S/S configuration. If I had grown up shooting a S/S shotgun, I am confident would have felt otherwise.

I think that for Americans, who started out as I did with repeating shotguns and under barrel tubular magazines, the transition to the O/U design is more comfortable.

Also, the O/U design seems to lend itself to scoping better, but that's just my opinion. To me, a scope has always looked out of place on a S/S rifle.

The proposition that the O/U's greater gape makes it more difficult to reload has never found resonance with me.

Ozhunter , awesome Buffalo you are posing with. Where was he taken ?

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Originally posted by Jan Dumon:
Ozhunter , awesome Buffalo you are posing with. Where was he taken ?

In the Omay Communal lands of Zimbabwe.
A fantastic hunt.

Adam, what is that sweet looking little double you killed the stag with?

With my Marcel Thys side lock in 458wm I have killed:
5 bull elephant
13 cow elephant
4 bull cape buffalo
4(?) cow cape buffalo
1 klipspringer
1 zebra
1 baboon caught in a snare
1 boar

JPK