That’s magnificent!! Nice work. “I’m a licensed gunsmith so I’ll do whatever the duck I want” Perfect.

Mate I am so impressed with your build! Fantastic work and such a great way to breathe new life into the old gal! Well done!

Nice job. I've made my poorman's double similarly, but I used (2) barrel inserts for .45-70 and mounted sights using a rare earth magnet set, so I can go back to using it as a shotgun by replacing the chokes and removing the inserts and sights. For the ranges I'd be using it for, it goes back to zero pretty good. ;) My lock is a hammer version, because I love the hammer design. ;)

I've been looking for an excuse to buy a side by side 12 gauge. Looks like a good bear defense gun.

Great build, and a great story. Plenty of old guns around with plenty of life in them that could use some life breathed into them.

Nice job, I bought the book on converting shotguns about 10 years ago, but I've always been too busy with other projects. I'd like to find a trim 20 gauge side-by-side and slip some rifle tubes in in 30 30 or 35 Remington. I even thought about doing a double 45 Colt! They'll kill feral Hogs in the bush with no problem.

bloody great video mate, just goes to show that old "shitty" guns can still be useful.

Love that stock. Bloody gorgeous. And the I’m a gunsmith comment was gold. Looks great. ❤️👍

That's pretty bloody impressive .. excellent job on the Shotty 👍👍

Way cool looking Shotty . Extremely nice machine work. Great to keep an old gun useful and just FUN . I would be proud to have a " custom double rifle " . Canada .

I’m with you. Really like the old style, and turning an old girl into something useable, is a bonus. Good hunting!

That really came out looking way cool. The stock, the sights, the whole gun is beautiful. I enjoyed watching this video and I would have liked to have seen the stock repairs as well. Outstanding.

Great job and what a good idea. I have a Stoger double 12 gage with 18 inch barrels and always fancy that "if it were only a double rifle." Fun entertaining video; thanks!

I have a couple of old double barrels that I've wanted to do this to. Well, one I want to put sleeves in and make it a proper double rifle (albeit for we un-rich, LOL). I love the quality of your work! Amazing! Two thumbs up from the US of A!

Incredible craftsmanship!!! Very cool!

For that last couple years I have been doing what I call modern musketry , using shotguns and modern slugs to shoot as accurate as possible, it is a lot more challenging that using rifle at distance. Thanks for your videos.

Awesome work on the double!

nice gun, my side by side had the same problem with plastic hulls not dropping free. If you take a fired hull from each chamber glue Thousand grit sandpaper to them. put a bolt through the primer pocket .oil the paper reinsert and lap your chambers with a hand drill .they will slide out easily it's how the cowboy action shooters get them to drop free. brass shells are great. but depending on which kind you get. You will not be able to use smokeless powder

You saved a piece of history and put your own mark on it. Too cool, in a hundred years some future forgotten weapons historian will be talking about it. Looks beautiful.

No matter the size of the choke by the time the slug reaches the muzzle it's preheated and will be soft enough to pass safely through the gentle incline. Snap gages aren't easy to find and most calipers can measure the muzle giving you an instant adequate reading. But: "I really like your milling and fitting abilaties and how you cosmetically improver this piece." Nice work.

That was a very impressive build. Looking forward to the brass shell episode...should be interesting.

That is gorgeous work, just fantastic!

Man that's amazing I've been wanting to do this to a old stoeger shotgun I have its 28inch barrel with removable chokes so I got some rifled chokes and I'm going to see how it shoots some 3 inch slugs and I can still use it for birds or coyotes here in the states with a simple choke change. Thank you for showing how you built the sights now I just need to find a gunsmith that can replicate it

Fantastic work bringing your idea to fruition and doing it yourself.

I love the splinter forend. Really nice job. Regulation is tricky, glad it worked out. I have an old savage 24 I need to figure out a way to regulate, unfortunately I don’t have your skills!

That’s one of the best things I’ve seen on KZfaq in awhile awesome job

Good project. I (living in the United States) have done similar projects, usually with less artistic effect. At one point I had an old L. C. Smith shotgun (Damascus or laminated barrels) and of - at the time - insignificant value, so (having an extra set of barrels that were dented at the nineteen inch area) I cut them off and used it as a 'cowboy' guns. I did use rather light loads and all brass shotgun shells. I had a total of about 25 brass cases and reloaded them with black powder (actually modern nitrocellulose powder but burning with black powder rates) and found them perfect for the use. I didn't do slugs, Bird shot with a heavy paper over wad and sealed with candle wax. Good work on the sight modification, metal and wood work, and the recoil pad. The only thing to which I object is your language. I find much clearer and less objectionable speech is more enjoyable.

That is absolutely cool and inspiring! I live in the northern Rockies of America . I can't say I need a short range deer gun but by golly if I was to build one like yours I'd have it if I need it. Very cool gun! Looking forward to the brass cases.

is there a halfway between a double rifle that looks like a double barreled shotgun and a double-barreled shotgun that looks like a double rifle in real life?

Nice work, I love it.

I've done similar with a Stoeger Condor and cylinder chokes and Fiber Optic Turkey sights.

Fantastic thinking!

There is a company that builds double rifled 20g slug guns.i can't remember the name right now.but they come with rifled sites and a optic mount I always wanted one in 16g for deer drives. The 20g would work just fine if I ever find one for sale.

Great Video and awesome shotgun.

great bit of work nice to craftmanship ain't dead

Sweet! That turned out nice! I learned something today!😮

First off, nice work on the double barrel, second, I have never considered using one of my six shotguns as a rifle. And that may be because my favorite is a 1906 Le Fever Nitro double barrel, I have to confess, it is old and I worry about over preasure in my favorite old girl. However I certainly could try that in my Beretta Silver Pidgeon, my Stevens Savage, Itheca Featherlight, Mossberg 835, RIA VR-60, or TriStar KRX...

Fhucken awesome job Love ya work buddy 😊

Dammit… Now I want one.

Bloody nice work

That's a nice smokestick. Great work.

Great work, and a great video. Thanks

Cool build, your going to have knock up some imitation "Kynoch" boxes to hold those brass shells too😂

Absolutely beautiful work,if I could I'd have one in 20 gauge, I just haven't found anyone around here that can build one.great work

Beautiful job!

I bought a number of chamber inserts for a single-shot break action shotgun - mostly handgun calibers, as well as a .410 insert that is longer - as an experiment. Of course, while the chamber pressures of the handgun calibers - .44 Magnum, etc. - are much higher than those of a shotgun, the total energy in a handgun cartridge is low compared to a "double rifle" cartridge like a .458 magnum or .375 H&H, that you'd find double rifles chambered in. Nonetheless, I've wondered if a sleeve (a to-the-muzzle sleeve) that fit a 12 or 20 gauge double, but which was chambered in a serious round would overload the locking mechanism of the action. Looking at the strength of the pivot arm of a double-barrel, it looks pretty robust - but that says nothing about the alloys used, the yield strength of the weakest point, etc. I've been looking for a double rifle to examine on that count, but not successfully yet. Seems like it would be a versatile field piece to have, say, a .338 or .375 (or both) in barrel sleeves available to insert into a 12 gauge double, that could be removed if you wanted to use shotshells. What's your take on the strength of a double-barrel's action? Would such a weapon be safe?

Damn, I have a 1900 Remington sxs with the same idea in mind. Been on the back burner for about a year. Came across it night before last and this came up on my feed today. Must be a sign lol

Love your work, mate. I had a similar idea of running an Akkar Churchill O/U as a double slug gun, but unfortunately in the manual it recommends using only birdshot size loads.

Nice work!

Great work!

An over n under would be good too

This was sweet. My dad did the same thing with a 12ga he had that got damaged. Cut it down to get rid of what was bent and the same style sight put on. Years later i got it off him and had it threaded for chokes so now I can use it as my turkey gun in the spring and a dogging gun for deer in the fall. It has ejectors to.

Great video Mate❤!!

I have always been enamoured by the double rifle even though here in America they are just not that popular. I have an old 16 gauge side by side I'm thinking about tinkering with.

Awesome thanks for sharing!

You are very talented and do very nice work. Very nice looking poor man’s double!!

Nice weapon, very practical

Very nice and it looked great!

Very cool! You've got some serious gunsmithing skills. I grew up shooting a Stevens/Savage Model 311,12 Ga. Side by side, 30" full choke. I've shot tens of thousands of rounds thru that gun, so many that I've retired it for safety reasons. I would love to have a double barrel slug gun like yours, or a double rifle, and one day I will. My current favorite gun is a Winchester pre-64 style model 70 safari in .375 H&H. To date I've shot 2 pigs and an 11 ft gator with it. I hit exactly where I aimed and none of the animals I shot took another step, all three were (as they say over in Holopaw) DRT, Dead Right There. Lol. That rifle was my retirement gift to myself after 34-yrs working for the USAF as an ARFF Firefighter. Sorry for rambling, I had a knee replaced last week and I'm high as hell on oxycodone.

Excellent work mate Great work Great video

That's a fucking awesome looking bit of kit mate 👌 well done on the build.

I used to shoot cowboy action and I found polishing my chambers of my double barrel shotguns allowed me to break open the gun and with a quick move, pitch the empty shells over my shoulder.

Beautifully done ..

For your surprise in India many hunting enthusiast who were not so rich, used to hunt deer and even tiger with 12 bore Spherical Ball cartridges before the recreational hunting ban imposed in 1972.

Beautiful work. Please do a 50yd target vid from a bench. Thanks.

Decades ago I held a very nimble factory-built short barrel Beretta, similar to your configuration. Full stock with a buttplate, not a recoil pad, and barrels longer than what the Sicilians would call a "Lupara". That Beretta might have been a model 409 in 16 ga. with an under-barrel sling mount.

Looks like you do good work!!

Greetings from Texas, Sir. As a SBS enthusiast myself, quite nice work.

Brilliant !

Rocky Mountain Cartridges makes every caliber of shotgun hull out of brass, also in many lengths as well and not those thin cheap ones that are most common, they use regular plastic hull 12 gauge wads!

Nice work those sights make that gun sexy as hell. I'm doing a similar build up here in the states. I hacked my Remington 1889 12 gauge hammer double to 20". Still thinking about sights, maybe a flip down rear.

Bloody bewdy build Buddy !!!!

Fhuckon awesome !

Beutiful build.

Consider gluing in .45-70 barrel liners?

That thing looks identical to my old Bentley minus the cool stuff

I Do this with a old feathetlite hammerless side by side 20 guage grouse gun! Its light weight and stupid accurate with slugs , some of the heavy slugs like the Breneke are devastating out of it

i like it and i like the way you talk good luck hunting

Good vid mate

Nice many years ago I transformed an abused .410 double shotgun into a double rifle. Didn’t do the amount of work you did for your sights, I got an old set of Parker Hale sights from Sarco , with a little work they look (and work) just fine.

This may sound odd, but a .410 double can actually chamber .44 magnum AND .444 Marlin. I imagine the barrels could be rifled if you need long range accuracy. Mine does pretty well out to about 60 yards.

Can you machine the barrel to take a rifled choke?

Awesome video cool gun

the inside of those shotguns scare me.

Got a couple of shotguns that would make nice doubles. One even has a Greener cross-bolt. How bloody cool is that? Always wanted to do a build precisely as you did and now will. Thanks for the inspiration.

Paper shells will also slide out of the chambers easier than plastic will

I like your style. Subscribed 👍🏻

Great job on the shotgun. I would love to have something like that

He's listing all the genuine gunfuckery and flaws in the condition, and I'm like, "yeah, but look at the case hardening."

Love this and all your work. I also have a la sorda, but it has a dint in one barrel. Is this something you could fix, or recommend someone around Bendigo to do it?

What about making barrel liners in rifle calibers

You bet😊I found an old 22 in the trash spent the winter getting it off life support 😊 always looking for patients 😊

Good job brother

Could tap the barrels for rifled chokes if you wanted to get silly

I have been looking for something similar. I would love to have a shotgun/rifle combo. Good gun for whatever wants to show up when I am afield. I unfortunately am in the same situation as you and haven't been able to find anything in my price range for sale. I keep looking for a cheap one to do a project gun but nothing yet. Thanks for the video.

To take a piece of shit shotgun & repurpose it into a fully functioning purpose-built shotgun, is outstanding work, great video thoroughly enjoyed it.

A mate has a 9.3x74 double, it’s an impressive piece of kit

Hate to sprinkle on your parade ... but Butch Searcy (an independent thinking American from Boron, Commiefornia) was building these many decades ago from the Browning BSS Sporter Shotgun. They are still available on the used market and are a prized possession. There is no evidence suggesting that a problem has ever existed with the product. Butch has been making new issue Double Rifles ever since and again, these are prized possessions.

i would like trying to make a combo double rifle + shotgun...

Good hunting.