How/Where did Butch Searcy learn Double Rifle Craft??

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10 February 2006, 03:35

ColoradoMatt

How/Where did Butch Searcy learn Double Rifle Craft??

1) How/Where did Butch Searcy learn Double Rifle Craft??

2) It seems like a LOT of folks in the U.S. put together nice magazine/bolt rifles. Is there room for another good maker of working double rifles in the same price and quality range as searcy? (Ornamentation not withstanding.)

3) Can good boxlock WORKING/UTILITY GRADE doubles be made for significantly less $$$ than Searcy?? Searcy rifles seem to be a very good value.

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10 February 2006, 04:39

577NitroExpress

I'm not sure about the answer to #1, but he did say that his uncle was a Barreler for one of the top DR firms. Don't hold me to this, but I think it was Westley Richards.

I think gunsmithing is in his family.

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10 February 2006, 07:00

500grains

quote:
Originally posted by ColoradoMatt:

3) Can good boxlock WORKING/UTILITY GRADE doubles be made for significantly less $$$ than Searcy?? Searcy rifles seem to be a very good value.

If you eliminate the word "good" from your question, then the answer is YES - see the Baikal guns from Russia.