Safari without Sling?

[Green Chile]

Hi, Bryan, what year (roughly) is your Purdey? And you say you have no qualms using jacketed bullets? I used to have a .450 BPE double from roughly the late 1880s and loaded it with hard cast bullets. But definitely using jacketed would expand the usefulness of the rifle.

What weight jacketed do you use?

Good question. I never lettered it. I should post a topic on it with more photos...don't mean to derail this fine topic.

Hawk bullets are 350s with the thinner .025 jackets for about 1900 fps. Hawk did not recommend thicker jackets for this mild velocity. They did ask if I wanted a custom cannelure and I did not.