Just picked up my new Heym 500NE safari. Had some gold work done on the barrel roots and the sights as well as recknagel mounts installed by Martini & Hagn in Cranbrook BC. Ralph also mounted the Zwarovski Z6 EE scope. They do excellent work and are very good to deal with. It is a joy to shoot and every round shot makes you smile. Their falling block rifles are extrordinary pieces of work very simple and very precise, that may be my next piece. I will post pictures of the 500 NE soon as possible.

Let me get this striaght, you installed a scope on a .500 NE?????

These ain't long distance guns, dude!

Paul some folks simply can't see iron sights, and must rely on glass, no matter the chambering. I hunt with a guy who has very bad eyes, and shoots a bolt action 458 Win Mag, with a 1X illuminated scope on it. If I could afford it, I'd have a QD scope for every double rifle I own.

I have never understood everyone's objection to mounting a scope on a double rifle, as long as it is mounted properly, in QD rings and bases, and far enough forward so it doesn't take half you face off when you fire it!

Most of us are lucky enough to be able to use irons sights pritty well, but people like my wife may as well throw their rifles in the dump if they had to use iron sights. She can't see her hand with her arm stretched out in front of her without her glasses, and with them she can't see the sights because they are too close. However you don't want to make her mad if she has her scoped rifle! .....And I don't make her mad, I can assure you!

I thinks A sight similar to RUSTY'S is in my future.
http://forums.accuratereloadin...991085501#6991085501

Paul can still see his sights, I have seen him actually hit a TREE or two...

Zigfreed

A Heym is a very good Double Rifle.

VERY GOOD.

Zigfreed, That was an especially nice Heym that Hagn had...great wood and gold trim... a "Luxus" grade. It would be mine except they wouldn't take anything in trade on that one for some reason.

I think putting a scope on a fine double is akin to putting a big ugly tattoo across a beautiful woman's face.

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Originally posted by Pepper_Tick:
I think putting a scope on a fine double is akin to putting a big ugly tattoo across a beautiful woman's face.

Good way of expression ...However, if one have had a nice dr for many years using the ironsigths, suddenly can`t use the gun anymore because of poor eyesight, I would say ofcouse, if it was the only way for him to still get enjoyment from the gun in the last years.

The geometry of a double rifle does not accomodate a scope well. Although a double can be scoped, the end result will never quite be just right.

Haven't had a chance to get pictures of this unit but will soon. I guess not everyone has the same idea in a guns versatility but the scope is the option I have chosen. Great scope and mounts with lots of eye relief, which is good on the 500NE.
Never shot one before buying this unit, it is a learning curve but doable. Did finally receive ammo from Hornady and it is now time to play.

I have a couple of scoped Double Rifles an O/U 30/30 Heym, 9,3x74R Chapuis and a 450/400 3 1/4" British.

I also have several scoped Drillings, Double Rifle Drillings and a scoped Combo Gun.

Buffalobeans, I have hunted and killed a LOT of game with these guns in several different places and in a few different countries.


For ME a scoped double is a great hunting rifle...

PERFECT IN EVERY WAY.


IF I got the Contract to kill EVERY game animal on the Planet, I would pick a couple of scoped double rifles.

Except carrying a scoped big bore double is a royal pain in the a%*&.

465H&H

465H&H

My Idaho bumpkin buddy [Next time I come through there I will buy you lunch],
I have not found that [carrying a scoped Double] to be any more of a problem than a nonscoped one.

In Africa I do not use a sling. I do African carry, and I am careful not to "laser" a live human, or anything else important, like the Land Cruiser. or the beer cooler.

I have hunted with my scoped 9,3 double, a BUNCH, even using it on Back Packing hunts, and do not find it any more difficult to carry than a scoped bolt rifle.

Zigfreed
Stick to your guns, its your money and your rifle, do with it as you want to. To each his own. Some like scopes, some don't.