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I am the proud owner of a 1902 Gibbs .500 BPE. This is my first double and have been looking for a long time. My good friend Cal Pappas helped me locate it and find just the right load. I went to Cals yesterday where we loaded three different loads working up to what he said should be the load that should regulate. I was very excited to shoot this "new" gun. I put up three targets in his front yard and started with the light load and worked up to the one that should shoot. I marked where the left and right barrel shot for each load. The third target was beautiful. Both printing almost on top of each other. I was all smiles collecting my targets and showing Cal. I'm now hooked! With some luck I will traveling to Zim next year with Cal and my .500 for some adventure. To top off the day I shot his mighty .600 Nitro and the massive 4 bore. What an amazing experience. Both are just impressive guns and great works of craftsmanship. If you haven't checked out his website you're in for some great stories and pictures of beautiful doubles. He is at Calpappas.com . I may post some pictures of my new treasure at another time. Happy shooting to you. Scott | ||
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Congrats. Don't keep us waiting too long for the photos !!! Previously 500N with many thousands of posts ! | |||
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Welcome to the DRSS (Double Rifle Shooters Society)Scott. If Cal can't get a rifle working right then there is something wrong with it! We'll probably have another local shoot next spring so keep it tuned up! NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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 congratulations Alaska One! Welcome to the DRSS family! I can assure you that double will not be your last, as the double rifles are about as addictive as heroin! Hope to get up to Alaska next spring to do a little fishing, and maybe get over to Wasilla for the spring shoot as well. ....................................................................Good shooting  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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Congrats! 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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Now you're hooked. Welcome to the double world  | |||
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Mac: If you will be in AK in the spring, contact me in April and I should have the date of our first double rifle shoot to be held at Birchwood. This year it was early May and it was snowing so this coming May perhaps a bit later. We should have 20-30 doubles from .303 up to 4-bore there. Cheers, Cal _______________________________ Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska www.CalPappas.com www.CalPappas.blogspot.com 1994 Zimbabwe 1997 Zimbabwe 1998 Zimbabwe 1999 Zimbabwe 1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation 2000 Australia 2002 South Africa 2003 South Africa 2003 Zimbabwe 2005 South Africa 2005 Zimbabwe 2006 Tanzania 2006 Zimbabwe--vacation 2007 Zimbabwe--vacation 2008 Zimbabwe 2012 Australia 2013 South Africa 2013 Zimbabwe 2013 Australia 2016 Zimbabwe 2017 Zimbabwe 2018 South Africa 2018 Zimbabwe--vacation 2019 South Africa 2019 Botswana 2019 Zimbabwe vacation 2021 South Africa 2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later) ______________________________ | |||
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Thanks Cal, It's been a while since I've been hunting in Alaska, and I miss the mosquitoes sucking all my blood and now I'm on Plavix (a blood thinner) so they won't have to suck so hard!  Kidding aside, I look forward to getting up there to shoot with you guys! ................................................................cheers from the lower 48  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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Just say the word Mac and I'll meet you at the airport and drag you out to the shoot! NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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