doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com French Chapuis Guns.

There you go John, a world class gun with world class balance for not much money.

Here is the one CB is talking about. Nice...but for $24,000 cdn??? I could buy a couple AYA #2's for that cash and still have some left for a SD phez hunt.

https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/sh...ghlight=Chapuis

Translate that, Lagopus.
JR

Yup, nice gun but not how I would spend 24K on guns. BTW, was taking a stab at the pricing. Couldn't remember exactly and didn't want to scroll through pages looking. Even with exchange it's still a lot of US dollars.

Sorry John. What I mean is that the price in pounds quoted will be a bit on the high side. Being French made they will sell in Euros. At the moment the exchange rate of the Euro to the pound is not in as much favour for us as it should be so we will pay a bit more. Then added to the price in the U.K. is the best part of 17 1/2% Value Added Tax. Which means that the price quoted will be about 25% more than you could get it for in France and imported to the U.S. Lagopus.....

To some that may be a bargain for what you are getting and there are a whole lot more expensive guns being built in France.

I know this is all second hand information, and the original owner who ordered the gun probably thought he had good reasons for wanting a 28 gauge shotgun built on a double rifle action, but when you consider what he could have bought one of their standard 28 gauges for, and how much he would have to shoot a 28 gauge enough to shoot it loose ........did that decision really make sense? For goodness sakes, how many people will live long enough to shoot a 28 that much?

My philosophy in a situation like this would be to buy a gun, shoot it until it's "shot", and buy another. One thing is for sure, it's a "one off". Most times you take a bath when you go to unload something like this and try to get anywhere near what you put in it.

SRH

I've never heard of a Chapuis being shot out, they are built very well and are very strong. The used gun prices are not good, but that is because everyone worships the Blue Book and prices their guns accordingly. Used Chapuis shotguns rarely hit the market, but if you want a good gun that's a keeper go Chapuis.

I question how many of us have enough time left to wear out guns with even a single under bite.
I haven't "worn any out" in my life. Broken a few parts, that is for sure, but, most anything could be fixed.
Double rifles, and the costs associated with same, leave me scratching my head, for the very most part. I freely admit I'm not an Africa bound big game hunter, but, it seems to me if I were, the accuracy, reliability, cost effectiveness, and simplicity of a bolt gun would make a lot more sense.
Granted, "minute of orange" is enough accuracy for most tasks one would pursue with a double rifle. But, wouldn't the standard of minute of angle be more comforting for animals that might succesfully atempt to kill you during the pursuit?


Best,
Ted

A Lefever Arms Co has a single top wedge bolt in a square shouldered doll's head. A Parker Bros V & up has a single under bolt & a square shouldered doll's head, the trojan lacks the doll's head. A Win 21 has a single under bolt A L C Smith, Ithaca NID & A H.Fox have a single top Rotary bolt. Bakers normally have a single top wedge bolt in a straight rib extension. The Ithaca Flues has an under bolt plus a top bolt & it's not as strong as any of the above.
Note also the doll's head of the Lefever & Parker does nothing to hold the barrels shu, the single bolt does that.
All the BallyHoo over multiple bolting is almost always directed toward keeping the barrels bolted down so0 they don't revolve open, this is NOT the major stress point in handling the load being fired.
"ONE" good solid bolt will hold any gun shut.
If you smoke test the fit on most any except perhaps the Very, Very High Priced ones (I don't have any in that class to test) you will generally find that regardless of how many bolts the gun has, generally one is doing all the work.