Let's Talk Big Bores

[cigar_man]

I have handled a few of the more expensive Safari grade rifles like the Holland & Holland and a Rigby and I must say, the Ruger RSM ticks all the boxes for me compared to them.

I would rather my RSM be in .416 Rigby for nostalgia sake, but .458 Lott is the next best thing.

My Sako Brown Bears are next in line, then comes along the CZ 550.

My 550 is itchin for a new laminate Boyds stock one day as the CZ stock is very bland and I would really like to upgrade.

These are iron sight only rifles as I just can't handle the thoughts of scoping them.

It took a bit of time, expense and worldwide tracking to find reloading dies, brass, bullets and appropriate molds for the various calibre's.

I'm also burning a hole for a late 1800's double rifle, black powder express in one of the large calibre's.

I also presently own a few Cape Gun's.

The one shown below is a Thomas Bland & Son, late 1800's, .577 - 16 gauge

 

[WR1894]

i have collected for a long time and like big bores but mostly black powder one of my early guns was a 8 bore muzzle loading rifle form cape town

it is with a T/C 45 cal for comparison for size, it is .835 bore and in its day it is a big bore,

 

[The Kurgan]

I have handled a few of the more expensive Safari grade rifles like the Holland & Holland and a Rigby and I must say, the Ruger RSM ticks all the boxes for me compared to them.

I would rather my RSM be in .416 Rigby for nostalgia sake, but .458 Lott is the next best thing.

My Sako Brown Bears are next in line, then comes along the CZ 550.

My 550 is itchin for a new laminate Boyds stock one day as the CZ stock is very bland and I would really like to upgrade.

These are iron sight only rifles as I just can't handle the thoughts of scoping them.

It took a bit of time, expense and worldwide tracking to find reloading dies, brass, bullets and appropriate molds for the various calibre's.

I'm also burning a hole for a late 1800's double rifle, black powder express in one of the large calibre's.

I also presently own a few Cape Gun's.

The one shown below is a Thomas Bland & Son, late 1800's, .577 - 16 gauge

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Me liking that beauty. Hard to tell in the photo, but is that a browned finish or blued on the barrels?

As for Boyds, they have some nice colours to select from, and their cut checkering is deep, sharp and perfect.

 

[brybenn]

i have collected for a long time and like big bores but mostly black powder one of my early guns was a 8 bore muzzle loading rifle form cape town

it is with a T/C 45 cal for comparison for size, it is .835 bore and in its day it is a big bore,

Bet that 8ga would be fun for deer hunting

 

[WR1894]

haven't shot one with the muzzle loader but have with a double 8 bore rifle with a round ball and it seem to work sufficient

 

[nowarningshot]

Yup, dead is dead. Most of the big bores are moving pretty pedestrian velocities. Forget who, had a theory of bullet performance, above 2650ft/sec....hydrostatic wounding. Fancy words for blood bubbles between every layer of muscle.....happy Rottweiler.

Super fast calibers at close range may ruin more meat than big canons. Hyperspeed and frangible bullets meant for long range, makes a mess.

 

[Ardent]

The FBI determined that in their ballistics lab, and well before that the French as Dogleg put me onto. More than a theory, it’s science. Above 2200fps impacts, the shock waves traveling through tissue cause permanent damage and rupture cell walls that radiates far beyond the wound site. The faster it’s going the further that damage propagates. Below the 2200fps threshold the stretch and shock is temporary and the velocity of the waves in tissue doesn’t cause that damage beyond the immediate impact area.