Ok rich guys
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Chuckbuster
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Hmmm...Mr. Capstick, I presume???
Where does "rich" figure into it? If you're a serious hunter, you soon learn to use the right tool to do the job under the worst conditions, .....if you value your life!!
As I used to say, "I can spend a fortune on insurance, but it ain't gonna save me, ..........but the right firearm may"!!!
As I used to say, "I can spend a fortune on insurance, but it ain't gonna save me, ..........but the right firearm may"!!!
I just wanted to see some of the higher end big game guns, this isnt about using the right tool or all the bull####. I just have been watching some big 5 hunting videos where the guy was using a 700 nitro express, and was wondering if anybody on here had anything similar.
Its funny how some guys have to read everything the wrong way.
Those guns and the ammo seem quite expensive why "RICH" is in the title, got it now?
Not sure what you're asking but no my 470 is not a Capstick it is a 470 Nitro Express
And no it's not a super high priced English double either, it's a working mans double from Merkel in Germany.......
The 470 is the standard by which all African cartridges are judged, you do not require anything larger for lifesaving and stopping dangerous game and it is still very easy and comfortable to shoot. I have shot 60 rounds in an afternoon will no ill effects at all. The 500 NE is another good cartridge and still very easy to control and shoot but beyond that they start to get ridiculous and do not do anything better than the 470 or 500. They also get ridiculously heavy beyond the 500 by todays dangerous game rifle standards, who wants to lug around a 15 or 16 lb rifle for 2 shots when you can carry an 11 lb 458 Lott with 6 rounds in a Brno or CZ.
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Not sure what you're asking but no my 470 is not a Capstick it is a 470 Nitro Express
And no it's not a super high priced English double either, it's a working mans double from Merkel in Germany.......
The 470 is the standard by which all African cartridges are judged, you do not require anything larger for lifesaving and stopping dangerous game and it is still very easy and comfortable to shoot. I have shot 60 rounds in an afternoon will no ill effects at all. The 500 NE is another good cartridge and still very easy to control and shoot but beyond that they start to get ridiculous and do not do anything better than the 470 or 500. They also get ridiculously heavy beyond the 500 by todays dangerous game rifle standards, who wants to lug around a 15 or 16 lb rifle for 2 shots when you can carry an 11 lb 458 Lott with 6 rounds in a Brno or CZ.
Very nice. That thing is at least 10 000. Sweet.
SB, It is just a piece of cloth my wife bought me to line the bottom of my new gun cabinets in my new vault............
Like so..........
Holy ####, think you got it all covered there lol.
Ah GG34, what is shown in the photos is but a fraction of my collection, which now stands somewhere north of 125 rifles, shotguns and handguns...........some 70 plus, maybe 80 now are collectable original Winchester leverguns.
The double was pretty much exactly that, with the case and taxes and I bought 100 rounds of Norma loaded ammo at the same time which brought it real close to $10,500........cheap for a true double rifle in 470 NE.
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Super tricked out 10/22 I bought thinking I was going to shoot rimfire silhouette again..........never happened, you want it?
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Thanks to some very generous friends . . .
C-FBMI's .470 in full song . . .
A moment before, or a moment after, I don't recall which . . .
Leopard track with a .500 NE cartridge for scale . . .
John Wilkes .500 NE owned by Mark Sullivan . . .
Mark Sullivan with his Chas. Osborne .577 NE, me with the .500 . . .
Notice the elephants across the sand river . . .
Okay, lets go over it again . . .
Has anyone seen a buffalo around here . . .
The business end of a .577 looks suspiciously like a 20 ga . . .
A .510/570 gr X bullet recovered from my buff, a .375/270 gr XLC for comparison . . .
C-FBMI's .470 in full song . . .
A moment before, or a moment after, I don't recall which . . .
Leopard track with a .500 NE cartridge for scale . . .
John Wilkes .500 NE owned by Mark Sullivan . . .
Mark Sullivan with his Chas. Osborne .577 NE, me with the .500 . . .
Notice the elephants across the sand river . . .
Okay, lets go over it again . . .
Has anyone seen a buffalo around here . . .
The business end of a .577 looks suspiciously like a 20 ga . . .
A .510/570 gr X bullet recovered from my buff, a .375/270 gr XLC for comparison . . .
