After a conversation about suppressors my mind started to wander (I hate when this happens). Folks build an integral suppressed barrel, why not for a double rifle. Yea I know, step away from the Scotch. I can’t see to many uses beyond hunting elephants inside the city of London. But, the gun world is full of engineering exercises for the sake of doing it. I for one would to see if they could.

No problem! Just pony up $653,000 for starters (and possibly a small profit)and I'll see about getting it on the agenda soon.

Sounds cool to me. A 34 pound double rifle shooting a 570 gr. slug at 1,000 fps. Where do we line up?

We could use the plentiful RWS ammo to speed up the process... Right Bob?

It would be like other RWS centerfire ammo, made out of unobtainium!

But we could wrangle a couple of plane ticket to Germany and get some.. It might take a few months of hard traveling around Europe to find just the right stuff though.
That would be in additional R&D cost to the price already quoted though.
Then there would be the real world test of it to Africa later on. That shouldn't take more than a couple of months on safari don't you think? (trophy fees additional of course)

Red Jacket!!

likely it could be done, and like a singleshot, could likely be effective. Of course it would alter regulation and would very much need to build a scratch build to accomodate the width of the cans required.. call it 2-2.5 spacer at the muzzle, well, 4 inches behind the muzzle, to allow the cans to be screwed on. Of course is MIGHT be possible to rig up a mount point that could hold a double mount, but that would likely look very steampunk

if i **HAD** to have a silencer on my double gun, i would cheat, and makeup another set of barrels .. well, i should say set of barrel- not S... and make it a singleshot that was silenced ... i thought about making it a cape gun, with one barrel being a shotty.. which would be useful, but the shotgun barrel would have to be shorter to avoid having to space it VERY wide (which would require a new forearm) and if the shotty was shorter, there would be a darn good chance that the shot would hit the silencer, bending it, and ruining the whole thing.

thinking about it even more... you could bore one barrel for a "choke" and use that as your silenced barrel... but if you fired the other barrel, you would wreck your silencer and barrel...

so, a single barrel set, with a mockup barrel on the side to fire the fore end piece, would be your best possible outcome, if you wanted to use your double platform with a silencer... and since the silencer would need a diameter likely greater than your sight height, the singlebarreled set of barrels would allow you to mount optics on the silenced set.

not joshing you, these are solutions to the problem as presented, that would give you something close to request,

Build it on a big frame, like a 10ga or bigger frame. Then put the rifle bbles inside, with built in internal silenceing.

It would look normal on the outside...

DM

Someone has WAY too much time on their hands. We complain about the "different" way a Blaser double operates, and then get excited about a suppressed double???? Go reload some stuff, or do a crossword puzzle. :-)

ditto

I have a friend whose brain works like yours...my condolences.

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Sounds cool to me. A 34 pound double rifle shooting a 570 gr. slug at 1,000 fps. Where do we line up?

The slower you launch them the better they penetrate. Just ask the .45-70 crowd, they are more than happy to tell you all about it!

Dick

What brand of Scotch are you drinking????

Tony

Famous Grouse has been the beverage of choice for sometime. I am currently working on an excellent 18 year Glefiddich. A new (for me) bottle of 12 year single malt called The Dalmore has shown up in the medical cabinet. It is very nice but the 18 will go first. I may never go back to the bird.

I do believe that this is the cause of this discussion. Nothing good ever comes from drinking three different types of Scotch all within the thirty days.

I have had second thoughts for a purpose built suppressed double rifle. DM has it right buy using inserts in a shotgun. I seem to remember seeing something like this using the choke tube threads. But was in a 45/70 or other such caliber. A 22lr should keep overall size and weight down. But a 30/30 would be nice if TPW lets us hunt with suppressors.

Dick

Good to see you back on AR.
I have been using a Heym Model 26B O/U in 30/30 for 4 years or so for deer and pigs on my lease.

Frankly I have been impressed with how well it kills deer, pigs and coyotes, as well as the occasional turkey.

PS try some 10 old Laphroaig.

It seems to put EVERYTHING in the proper perspective...