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Nitro Express Rifle Articles

Below is a good selection of older magazine articles for the nitro express rifles. To give proper credit, they are as follows:

A Double For Danger by Hal Hennseey. Source and date unknown
Big Bullets are Best by Jack Lott. Guns and Ammo, January, 1967
Building a Double Rifle by Louis C. Kleber. Guns, May, 1967
Double Barrel Rifles (from 1945) by Major N.H. Roberts. Hunting and Fishing, January, 1945
Double Barrel Rifles (from 1955) by George Courtney. American Rifleman, January, 1955
The Double Rifle by Malcolm Lyell. Guns and Ammo, December, 1963
The Double Rifle: Its Care and Feeding by Jack Lott. Gun Digest, 1979
Double Rifles by Jack O,Connor. Outdoor Life, January, 1956
Don't Label Doubles by James Williams, Guns, June, 1961 
Loads For Dangerous Game by Jack O'Connor. Outdoor Life, April, 1954
Loads For Double Rifles by Brian J. King, MD. Shooting Times, February, 1968
The Rifle That Won Africa by Gil Paust. Source and date unknown 
Smokeless Loads For Double Rifles by Ray Marriage and Dick Vogt. Gun Digest date unknown
   (Page 204 and 210 is my 4-bore Hughes)
Who's Afraid of Kick by Mary B. Williams. Guns, December, 1960

The article by Lott, (Care and Feeding) has been the bible of double rifle shooters until Gareme Wrights book was published, Shooting the British Double Rifle. Most of your reloading questions on shooting the nitro express rifles can be answered within the pages of these fine articles. Good shooting!

A Double for Danger

Big Bullets are Best

Building a Double Rifle

Double Barrel Rifles (1945)

Double Barrel Rifles (1955)

The Double Rifle

The Double Rifle: Its Care and Feeding

Double Rifles

Don't Label Doubles

Loads for Dangerous Game

Loads for Double Rifles

The Rifle That Won Africa

Smokeless Loads for Double Rifles

Who's Afraid of Kick?