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Auto ejectors, they were created for people who had servants to clean up.Self cocking, yes we are talking modern hammer gun here.The list of features that can be subtracted from a double yet retain its essential handling qualities is extensive: ACTION How much can you subtract from a best gun and still retain the “bestness”? Taking away the superfluous while retaining the essential is minimalism in design. The Holland self opening plunger, useful for those that do not close their own guns! When was the last time you hunted this way? MINIMALIST DESIGN Auto ejectors, self opening, automatic safeties, are designed for shooting driven game with a pair of guns, assisted by at least one loader. Inertia also burdens top of the line doubles with obsolete systems designed for uses that no longer exist. So all double guns have ribs, even though ribs do nothing functional while adding weight rust nests. And inevitably there are “experts” who are there to tell the gullible that they, the “experts”, have handled the original and the copy and ascertained that they are close enough to make the copy a bargain.Īdd to the above the mental inertia of makers who ploddingly follow nonsensical conventions. So it is easy to fool people that a cheap item that LOOKS like a fine double is close enough. It looks identical to the real thing, but misses the feel and balance. They have visual information but not TACTILE knowledge of it.Ī Spanish “Holland type” shotgun. Most people have SEEN such a gun in photos and Internet videos. Nor have they manipulated, opened and closed a properly finished double to get a first hand feel of that vaultlike lockup. They have never held a 6 1/2 lb shotgun that is so finely balanced it almost reads their thoughts. Why can’t this feel of a fine double be made available to all of us at an affordable price?īecause most people do not know the feel of a fine double. “Dream of things that never were and ask why not?” sums my reaction when handling a best quality, invariably hellishly costly, double.
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A MODERN HAMMER GUN? A “real” Holland and Holland double.