This is crazy

I'd squeeze the trigger once just to say I did..

but have no interest in actually owning or hunting with one..
 
"Hold my beer, while I try out this .700 Nitro"
 
'Scuse me while I fire a howitzer.


It's probably safe...
 
It seems like a lot of gun for not a lot of purpose. From everything I've read of the .700 Nitro, it exist primarily as a curiosity. Too heavy for 90% of people to carry on a hunt, too much recoil for 90% of those people to shoot accurately, and too expensive for 99% of the remaining 1% to afford. Less penetration than any of the other big bores. It probably deals one heck of a blow to elephant on a headshot, and probably will knock one down without hitting the brain, so in almost every way, the .500 nitro outperforms it except in shear size and energy. I would much rather spend $200,000 on a battery of fine doubles between .450/400 to .500 NE calibers than one rifle that is kind of a publicity stunt. It doesn't even have the nostalgia as the older rounds.

All that being said, if someone handed me one and 2 of those $150 rounds, I would totally give it a go.
 
The .700 was no doubt built as a novelty. How many hunters, or PH's, want to lug around a 20lb rifle, that kicks like a muletrain. Not to mention a price tag that rivals a modest house.
 

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