Unfortunately, I wasn't blessed with great vision, and even more misfortunately, I am stubborn as hell, so I refuse to wear glasses. This all being the case, I really feel like I'm not getting enough out of my 9.3 in terms of distance.

I'm going to take it elk hunting this fall, and I'd like to be able to get at least, but not necessarily anymore than, 200 yards out of it. My eyes won't do this with open sights.

I have always believed that it is sacreligious to mount a scope on a double, but I'd hate to miss that big bull because He was further away than ~100 yards, and I'd hate to limit the utility of the rifle.

Do you guys and gals have any suggestions in terms of removable scopes? I believe the 9.3X74R with a 286 grain bullet would be sufficient on elk out to 200, but do you all agree?

Finally, what are you all's thoughts on my perposterous notion of putting a scope on my pretty little French double? I mean, will I be band from all the cool kids' conversations on all these forums, or will I be laughed out of Colorado when I show up with a leupold on my double? Sagacious, and otherwise, advice is most urgently requested. Many Thanks.

I have 2 scopes in rings for my 9,3 Chapuis.
I have a Leupold 2.5-8 with the heavy duplex, and a Swarovski 1.5-6x42 with the circle dot illuminated reticle.

I much prefer the Swarovski.
I have killed a coyote at 271 yards with the Leupold scope and a kudu at a little over 300 yards with the Swarivski, both on film and thus witnessed.

I use the Chapuis pivot mount. It goes back to zero 100% as near as I can tell.

I highly recommend you scope your Chapuis.

I still cannot understand the resistance to scope a double rifle. If you would normally scope a bolt rifle in a similar calibre, why not a double???

The ONLY reason double rifles are not widely scoped is because they declined in use after WWII, before scopes became widely popular.

In Europe scopes are used on doubles quite a bit.

I scoped my 450/400 British double, I have had it for several years, before I took it on my last Safari. It worked perfect, I should have scoped it the day I bought it.

By all means scope your 9,3 Chapuis.

Always wanted a 450/400...jealous. Thanks for all the help. It seems I was sent to the right guy. I'll try out those loads as soon as my dang dies get in. I'm going to go ahead and scope it is well. I've got to put an extention on the sucker anyway. I agree that there isn't any reason why not to scope a flat shooting double that one will use at 200 plus yards. Of course, I'll keep the 470 open sighted, as I wouldn't really want to shoot it any further than 100 yards anyways.

From what I gather, you didn't have any problem lining up the barrels past the regulated distances. Mine was regulated at 50 meters, and the holes were about 1 1/2 inches apart. If they matched up at 200 hunsky, I'd be thrilled.

I assume loading the 9.3 is fairly straight forward. If you have any other suggestions, let me know, and thanks again.

maddenwh
Let me ad that I use Federal 215 Magnum primers, mainly because I use them in my other doubles, and I do use the 9,3 in cold weather.

My loads do not cross at any distance.

Ie the left bbl hits on the left and the right bbl hits on the right.

Just do not get caught up in trying to make your double print small groups like a sniper rifle.