jakk280rem
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Two reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
Economy of scale. Not enough people want double guns to male it worth it to tool up an assembly plant to make enough of them to makeep them affordable.
The amount of hand work needed to regulate a multiple barrel firearm, in such a manner as to make it reliable and durable for thousands of shots, in current designs, is cost prohibitive. Only a few are made because there are only a few people that know, making them very expensive, making fewer people want them.
Also, a third reason that just popped into my head is, double rifles grew up and made a name for themselves in an era that had few options for repeater rifles, and even fewer capable of taming the big safari boomers. Modern metalurgy has rendered double rifles into obsolescence. They are still made for the same reason Colt SAAs are made: Romanticism.
Thanks to modern materials it's possible to have a semi auto 404 Jeffrey at a tenth the cost of a handmaid double in the same caliber.
Economy of scale. Not enough people want double guns to male it worth it to tool up an assembly plant to make enough of them to makeep them affordable.
The amount of hand work needed to regulate a multiple barrel firearm, in such a manner as to make it reliable and durable for thousands of shots, in current designs, is cost prohibitive. Only a few are made because there are only a few people that know, making them very expensive, making fewer people want them.
Also, a third reason that just popped into my head is, double rifles grew up and made a name for themselves in an era that had few options for repeater rifles, and even fewer capable of taming the big safari boomers. Modern metalurgy has rendered double rifles into obsolescence. They are still made for the same reason Colt SAAs are made: Romanticism.
Thanks to modern materials it's possible to have a semi auto 404 Jeffrey at a tenth the cost of a handmaid double in the same caliber.