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So I finally got out to the range today. Now let me start off by saying that not only is this the first time I have shot this double, it is the first time I have shot ANY double. The gun is a bone stock Chapuis 9.3x74R UGEX with ejectors. While I have a scope mount this is with iron sights as I wanted to try her out first as is. The target was 50 meters away. I was shooting standing offhand while leaning my left forearm on a pole for support. My first two shots were with 285 grain Norma Alaska factory ammo. The two shots were about 2.65" apart. [URL=First two shots]  [/URL]Next I switched to my loads, RWS brass, Woodleigh softs 286 gr and 51 grains of varget on Federal primers. All I can say is  the two shots are 3/4" apart[URL=Second two shots]  [/URL]Beginners luck I figured so I shot two more of my loads. Then I shot these two shots that touching and are 1/4" apart! [URL=Third two shots]  [/URL]I then proceded to shoot another two shots 3/4" of an inch apart. Needless to say I'm more then impressed, these are the best iron sighted shots I have ever put together. There was one other guy at the range shooting a .223 tactical bolt and a 10/22 and he told me to feel free to shoot the empty propane can he had stuck two targets on. I thanked him and took aim and proceded to knock it into the air and send it rolling down the hill. He said, "what is that a 30-06!". It told him what it was and showed him a round and his draw dropped at it's size. Who said double rifles aren't accurate! | ||
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Another happy camper. Congrats. Looks like you are home free. ------------------------------- Will / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor, GOA, NAGR _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped. “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ If anything be of note, let it be he was once an elephant hunter, hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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Well, Done! 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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Way to go Geoff!! Believe me, I'm am glad as you are. | |||
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Oh, hell. I had talked myself out of needing one of these, and now I am nearly ill with envy. There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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Yup, me too.  Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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Me too. How about another buy? | |||
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