I have read a few posts about second caliber barrels for a DR, but what about buying a shotgun barrel set.

Question:
If cost is not considered as a deciding factor, would you order a set of SG barrels to supplement your DR.

Choices:
Yes
No
Cost is always a factor

Question:
If your desire is to have a SG barrel set for your first ever DR, would you wait till you tried the rifle and then order the SG set, after you decide the rifle is exactly right for you.

Choices:
Yes, would wait till rifle was tried
No, would buy the SG set when placing the orer

 

I have a Chapuis with 9,3x74R barrels and 20 ga barrels. It's actually a better shotgun than it is a rifle.

Bob,

good question(s).
If you go to DSC, SCI Reno, or the SHOT Show you will have the opportunity to try about every DR available. One or more will fit, and feel good. Just order the rifle then, with shotgun barrels if available. Most companies will want the DR back to retro-fit extra barrels if you buy one without. Since about all of them except Searcy are in England/Europe, it will involve a significant amount of time and money.

Rich
DRSS

I want a set of 20 gauge barrels for my K-Gun, just could not justify spending $4000 for the little I would use them.

The other issue is that unless you order the SG barrels at the same time, the fitted case will not have any place to put the extra barrel set.

Rich

Bob,

I had a chance at a fine heym 470 with a 28 gauge set. Really regret not buying it from JJ in Reno. Bought another heym without the SG a bit later.

Where I would find it very useful is in practice. You can shoot to your hearts content without breaking your shoulder or wallet.

Just another excuse to shoot the double!

I think it's a question of caliber, gauge, and weight too. The 9,3 size frame makes a great 20 ga shotgun.

I'd be concerned with a 28 ga on a .470 frame ending up as a 10-pound 28 ga shotgun........

No, Havent even fired a shotgun in over 25 years.

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Originally posted by LRH270:
I think it's a question of caliber, gauge, and weight too. The 9,3 size frame makes a great 20 ga shotgun.

I'd be concerned with a 28 ga on a .470 frame ending up as a 10-pound 28 ga shotgun........

Ah, my mistake. It was a 20 gauge set up, not 28. It is not a quail gun for sure, but makes for a lot of good practice time. On our last hunt, by buddy and I shot a few hundred rounds of reduced loads, scenario type shooting. It came in handy when his lung shot ele turned and ran right at John. HE stopped it at 7 paces with a very well placed second shot. Practice pays off.

In my experience double rifles rarely make good shotguns, so no I wouldn't want a set of shot barrels for any of my double rifles!

The nearest I'd come to that is a drilling with double rifle barrels on top, and a single shotgun barrel on the bottom, and I have a couple of cape gun (rifle on the right barrel, and shot on the left)

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Originally posted by Jack D Bold:
Practice pays off.

and that is why you get shotgun barrels

best

peter

Balance is extremely important whether you are shooting a double rifle or shotgun. Shotgun barrels are much lighter than rifle barrels and that means the balance will be completely different. The gun will either be muzzle light with the shotgun barrels or muzzle heavy with the rifle barrels. I don't see how it can be balanced with both. I voted no.

465H&H

As 465H&H mentioned it is very difficult to have shotgun barrels that will feel like a shotgun should. Also the stock dimensions should be a little different from a rifle to a shotgun.
I have only seen two that were ok. One is mine, a 450-400 with a second set of fully rifled slug barrels, the second gun was designed and stocked first as a shotgun with a second set of rifle barrels.
Always get the barrels fitted as the gun is made, much cheaper than sending it back latter.

I found that shooting trap and Sporting, starting with the gun at hip and decocked was the only sensible way to learn to use my Krieghoff properly. It would have bankrupted me to put 3-4000 rounds of 500/416 through it. In it's current form (.375 FL) and 20g it has a 'close enough' for government work feel so that I can use both without noticing the difference.

NB...my Skiet scores with the 20g suck...but then they do with the citori in 12g

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Originally posted by MacD37:
In my experience double rifles rarely make good shotguns, so no I wouldn't want a set of shot barrels for any of my double rifles!

+1

As Mac, Kebco and others have stated it's a compromise at best. Not worth it in my opinion, for what it would cost me to get shotgun barrels fitted to my DR I could buy two nice DBSS shotguns one in 20gauge and a 12gauge.

i have xtra 20 ga bbls & use them every trip. there's always some guineas, francolins, or geese for the pot. Only problem i ever had is one evening when goose hunting there was this cow ele with her calf that took exemption to us being there. #4 shot isn't too good as an ele stopper

If money was not a deciding factor..... why ask...get it all.

When I ordered my 500NE from Butch (Searcy) in 2003 I also had 12 gauge shotgun barrels included as well

And ya know what? They work just fine 'cause a correctly fitted DR is built to fit very much like a shotgun is.

I have a browning o/u 30-06 double rifle that came with a set of 20ga 3 inch barrels that I added a set of 28 guage tubes for it and I like the being able to just take one gun with me when I go hunting to cover anything legal to hunt in KS and all but the big bears in the continal USA. RNB

When I ordered my Krieghoff "Teck" O/U .458 Win Mag DR in 1970, I ordered interchangeable barrels in .375 H&H and 20 gauge 3" magnum. I shot the hell out of the shotgun barrels on safari, with admirable results.

I also used to shoot skeet with the .458 barrels, using .410 shells. The empties looked like hell and were trash as far as reloading was concerned, but when you can hit a low house 8, starting in low gun position, you feel as though you are ready for anything in the hunting field.

Shooting clay birds with a scope mounted can be interesting, too.

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Originally posted by MacD37:
The nearest I'd come to that is a drilling with double rifle barrels on top, and a single shotgun barrel on the bottom.

Mac, we agree once again!

Throw in, if I may, a factory claw mounted Zeiss 6X scope. It doesn't get much better.

My pet of my pets is my Heym 37B Deluxe 9.3 x 74R / 9.3 x 74R / 20 ga. It just returned from it's 3rd tour (safari).

when i win the the drawing, i'll ask butch if i can pay more and get 12ga barrels too

Heresy, I say. No splatter gun barrels on my rifles.