Recent content by matt85

Fantastic story!

I will always find these AI memes creepy looking. The harder you look at them, the more unnatural things pop out to you.

Id be interested if i can bring my 8-bore.

I have traveled with a custom rifle valued at around $7000. No guns have been lost but one gun case was dropped hard enough to knock its scope out of alignment. Use a really good case and consider insuring the rifles.

A wake of buzzards

I dont really care about the ivory size, id love to just hunt elephant. While having some ivory to show for it would be nice... Id happily go after a tuskless cow. Id spend the rest of the $100k on a hippo, spotted hyena, a couple warthogs, and a vintage 577 NE double to shoot them all with.

My "white wales" are a pair of double rifles. Ever since I attended my first double rifle shoot, I have wanted an 8-bore double and a 577 NE double. A little while back I successfully acquired a W.J. Jeffery 8-bore double rifle. Im not sure if I will ever get my hands on a 577 but I still dream...

I bought my vintage W.J. Jeffery double rifle to shoot it! A new production 8-bore double rifle would be so absurdly expensive that it would never happen for me. If I can ever make it back to Africa, it will be going with me.

Modern 577 NE rifles tend to only weight around 13 pounds and are pretty unpleasant. Original Britsh guns from early 20th century tend to weigh around 15 pounds, making them much more managable. If you think 750gr at 2000fps sounds spicey, you ought to try some of the really big boys. The 577...

Id pick up an antique British double in some flavor of BPE cartridge. Ive been drooling over this one sine it was posted...

Just how uncomfortable do you think shooting a 577 is? A modern gun might be rough to shoot (too light), but vintage British 577 NE doubles arent that hard to shoot. If its a 577 BPE gun then it would be easy to sling 40+ rounds in a sitting.

You would have to put ALOT of weight for it to fail to give. If memory serves me right, i used around 50 pounds of lead shot. A 600gr bullet a 2200fps had no trouble moving the weight and me behind it. This was a gorgeous AHR 505 Gibbs that had some of the best looking wood I've seen on a rifle...

The answer to your question really depends on the cartridge we are talking about. A life-time supply of 4-bore cartridges is different from a life-time supply of 500/465 NE cartridges. Also, do you shoot for fun or just practice/hunting?

I had a 505 that probably shot around 100 heavy loads from a lead sled without issues (570gr and 600gr bullets at 2100-2300fps). I also shot 40 or so rounds from my friends 505 on the same sled (525gr bullets at around 2300fps). In the end, the sled fell apart :ROFLMAO:. Only way i could see a...

Most modern guns are entirely too light for caliber! I wouldn't be concerned about weight unless the gun is going to break 12lb. I like my Leupold 1-6x24 with the built in red dot.