Beautiful Nightmares and The Stopping Rifles

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http://www.morrisonarms.com/2014/11/beautiful-nightmares-and-the-stopping-rifles/

Hope you guys enjoy and thanks for the patience, hopefully I'll have fleshed out and tested results late this winter for you. Thank you Doug, and stickhunter, couldn't have put it together without your help.

Angus
 
In the youtube video, if I may. The script font of your choice is nice looking, but it is very hard to read.
 
Great write up buddy. My favourite line... "like you would a neighbour's senile rottweiler"

I must have a thing for senile rottweilers because the 505 Gibbs has a firm grip on my imagination.
 
BigUglyMan said:
Great write up buddy. My favourite line... "like you would a neighbour's senile rottweiler"

I must have a thing for senile rottweilers because the 505 Gibbs has a firm grip on my imagination.
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I have the same dysfunction, it turns out it's actually a lovely cartridge and not half as fierce as its reputation on the butt end. It's even a well designed case, with it's steep shoulder for good headspace and perfect length neck, it looks like something designed this century. It sure rocked that penetration target stack of planks however.
 
Thanks for the kind words Jon, BUM, trout, mud, Boomer, and Dogleg. The hunting as we all know is quite exciting, and addictive as you point out more or less Dogleg. I paraphrased a thought of yours you shared in there by the way, about the quantity of Elephant rifles sold verses the Elephants hunted, and how that's just a nice example of healthy imagination and curiousity at work. In my dreams, there are bigger things than even Elephant, hence the .577 project, will be sure to post it and a video shooter's point of view of firing it quick as possible.
 
Nice work, Angus, and a belated congratulations on that H&H Royal! I hope things shape up OK with your rhino hunt plans --- hard to imagine the frustration of seeing a trip like that start to go sideways.

Your articles have definitely got me looking forward to trying some full power loads the next time I get to the range with the rifle. The plank test is certainly an eye opener on just how well all of those rifles do with penetration; it would be interesting to see how much of an effect going up in bullet weight may have on the results. I think I mentioned to you that I had a light-for-calibre paper-patch mould for the 505 --- I've been eying picking up this 600gr mould from Buffalo Arms when it's next in stock:

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This single cavity gas check cast bullet mould was designed for the 505 Gibbs. Designed to be cast from wheel weight at approximately 700 degrees. The mold will nominally cast .506" in diameter on the driving bands with .560" from the crimp groove to the nose, 1.185" long and a .300" meplat.
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Your purchase of the H&H also coincided with a conversation I'd had with another CGN member, and he was encouraging me to start looking into doubles. There was a book mentioned in your other thread, so I think some good reading on doubles is in order this holiday season.
 
Ardent said:
Why don't you take my .375 double for awhile? I'd be happy to loan it over so you can play with them and see what you think. It's up north with me and I'm flying back and forth until later this winter, but I'll get it down south soon enough.
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I'd definitely be in to that the next time you're back in town... thanks for the offer! Epps had a bunch of 375 H&H ammo for a great price --- I balked since I don't have anything to shoot it in, but should have picked it up in hindsight :)

I have to say, after reading your article and your other messages, if I had to pick just one of those rifles, it would, without a doubt, be the 470NE double. For the application of a stopping rifle or a stalking gun, I'd have a hard time arguing against a good quality double --- they just seem like a perfect match. As I mentioned earlier, it was clear in the 2-shot video that the doubles were in their element.
 
stick, she's yours I'll make sure she gets to your with some components and dies, it's a lot of fun and even a hair quicker than the .470 in the video just due to less recoil. For a perspective on its recoil, the second shot in the lion vid illustrates it's powderpuff nature beside the bigger guns, and especially yours, just skip all the drama and go to 1:45 for what I mean, closest thing I have to the same perspective as the stopping rifles video.

 
bearkilr said:
Great article, as always! You should start submitting to hunting mags!
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Too kind! I was given an entry level offer (web edition writer, with possibility to move to print if that went well over time), and I both fumbled the offer by humming and hawing and also finding myself completely unable to produce the format required, being short web blurbs of fixed length, as you can tell I tend to take my time and use as much space as feels appropriate. As you can see from the lag from proposing this in the other thread and actually producing it, scheduling is a challenge for me as I'm literally all over the place geographically, and a couple kids and a Mrs to keep pleased. Tough for a guy like me to display consistency, in timing, material, or even just quality if I had to do something every week, two, or four. Also, I hunt a lot here at home like many of us, but I'm no specialist in anything unlike you. My desired flavours are too broad, and I'd struggle to be an authority on anything and that would show in the writing. So, I suppose that puts me in the comfortable position of being my writing's own boss for the foreseeable future and writing about whatever I find interesting. :) I did run into a fellow in Africa who had read one of my bits and I had no connection to him previously, so that was an exciting moment, suppose those are my compensation.
 
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