Double rifle
Holland & Holland double rifle in .375 H&H Magnum.
A double-barreled rifle or double rifle is a type of sporting rifle with two barrels instead of one, available in either side-by-side or over-and-under barrel configurations.
Double rifles are one of the family of combination guns. In general, double rifles are much more expensive than the more common magazine-repeater rifles, and, owing to the large-calibre cartridges commonly used, have to withstand very high levels of recoil.
Double Rifle hunting gun from Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied's personal possessions.
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The breech of a side-by-side double rifle
Manufacturers of double rifles
- Holland and Holland
- LARM
- Heym
- Hartmann & Weiss
- Westley Richards
- Blaser
- Merkel
- Verney-Carron, French, imported by Verney-Carron US
- Aya, Spanish
- James Purdey and Sons
- John Rigby and Company
- Steinkamp, Germany
- Searcy, USA
- Anderson Wheeler
- Fausti
- Baikal
See also
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