My new Chapuis 9.3x74 UGEX just arrived and I picked it up at New England Custom Gun. The stock dimensions happened to be just about those of my custom shotgun stocks and the DR comes up like a good shotgun. The wood is better than the pictures and Dale Nygaard was a pleasure to work with, and of course, it's always a joy to find a reason to go to NECG!
But it's about 0 deg F here with enough snow and ice on the road to the range to stop me so I don't know when I'll get to shoot it.
But it fondles real well!!

Oxon

Oxon,

CONGRATS.....

Be carefull....you will find out that you really like this little Chapuis 9.3x74 and then you start thinking about something BIGGER (450/400, 470, 500)...very addictive stuff.

I think your choice for the "first DR" is probably the best one out there.

Congrats on the Chapuis! Dale is a good guy, and here's to many successful experiences with your new toy.

Welcome to DRSS Oxon, You are hooked now, so get set for a long run in the wacky world of double rifle mania!

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So, yet another has answered "The Call of the Double Rifle"!
Peter.

I think everything considered a Chapuis in 9,3x74R is one of the best rifles out there, especially for the money.

Mine has performed perfectly, and I have shot it over 3000 rounds.

..Congratulations

Call of the double...

Thanks, guys. I'm very excited and can't wait to fire it. I'm a big fan of SxS shotguns and am very impressed by the Chapuis - applying shotgun standard for wood/metal fit, balance, dynamics etc the Chapuis is a very nice gun indeed.

I do owe you guys and this forum a "thank you" - I actually browsed all 100+ pages and looked at all the threads that might be of help in making my decision. Starting with zero DR knowledge, it was a great learning experience!

Now, to find a place to shoot....

Oxon

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Originally posted by Oxon:
it was a great learning experience!
Oxon

You'll find that you're learning experience has just began!. Just when you think you've got that one licked, you'll find another one that "you've just gotta have!" then it begins all over.

congrats!
a DR is still my dream

btw, is there a minimum guaranteed accuracy of the DR? by Chapuis?

Yes, congratulations. The 9.3 is an entry level (gateway)drug to more and bigger, and more dangerous, DRs. You can't help it; it is like crack. In a few months, you will be so hooked that you will crave, daily, for a .470, or more. You will wake up at 3AM with sweats, and you will constantly haunt the web, this site, and Cabelas just to get a glimpse of them. Yes, congratulations and welcome to the ranks of the hooked. I am speaking from personal experience.

Yeah, thanks, guys - just what I need is another addiction!

In a few months I'll be 70 and I don't know what the REAL guns will do to my shoulder, but so far my well-fitting 12 ga shotguns are still pussycats.

It's friggin' cold here with a foot of snow so I really don't want to try to get up to the range, but dammit, I wanna shoot it!

There is a blemish on the barrel - an abrasion thru the bluing on the left chamber but the gun fit me so well (it comes up like a custom SxS shotgun!) that I decided to just take it as is and, hey! I'm gonna trip and fall and scrape it anyway.

Been working in my shop making some snap caps - used my taper attachment for my South Bend lathe for maybe the third time ever!!

I'm getting tempted to test the "rule of one" (one shot and only one shot can't be located and nobody's gonna do anything about it) and get a pine tree tonight but prob won't - my neighbors ratted me out once already.

Oxon

I keep a BIG piece (24 inches thick, 3 feet long) of cherry log in my basement for that purpose.

Congrats!

JPK

Congrats, Oxon!