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Does anyone know if a double has ever been made in 22 rimfire--22 mag or lr? I think it would be cool to have a .22mag double rifle!


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Once I seen a matched set of five doubles in a magazine. Started with the 22 LR and went up to the big boys. I believe there were five rifles in the set and they were made by Holland and Holland but this was about 15-20 years ago.
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Harry on this forum owns a pair of double rifles one in 470 and the other in 22LR. Yeah you are right, I covet the 22LR.

There was a poster over on NitroExpress.com that was currently making a single shot action. He said he would try to build a 22LR double. I'm on the list, or hope I am.


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Yes, and no, there were .22 Rimfire double rifles. But they actually were not ever intended to be double rifles.

Robert Churchill the gunmaker famous for the "Churchill XXV" twenty-five inch barreled shot gun built a few.

They were side-by-side and chambered in .22 Rimfire. But they were ribbed and given a front bead as shot guns and not front and rear sights as rifles. Why?

They were intended fort long shots - seventy five yards plus - at wildfowl such as geese. As the ultimate "super extra full choke" pattern is, of course, one bullet.

There is a description of them, and I think a photograph (I've certainly seen a picture of one) in one of Robert Churchill's books "Game Shooting".

Hope that helps. I've also see a Rigby side-by-side double about twenty-five years ago for sale at Holland's in .22 Svage Hi-Power. Bt no quite the same thing - this was a true rifle. When .22 Savage HP was the new high velocity "wonder cartridge" of the time.
 
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August Francotte, from Belgium, I think used to make them as special order.

The company is no longer in business.


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