My first "Big Bore"

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I was looking through some old magazines and spotted this advertisement. This was my first "big bore" firearm, back in the late 1950s. And I actually made a whopping profit on it by selling it for $500 when I left Ontario in the early 1970s. What would it be worth today, complete with case and all those accessories?

Incidentally, their advertising was right. While a couple of Woodchucks were shot with it, they were really not charging or life threatening, but it sure did stop them in their tracks.
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that'd be instant fail. 20mm rounds would just bounce off a blackbear. For real bear put-down power, I'd be stickin with my handy dandy slingshot.............HEY, if it worked for david..........
 
I like where the Ad says"get that man-eating jack rabbit with the first shot(or even near miss) with this incredibly accurate semi-auto." that is just to funny.:D
 
I owned one of those for about two months. Then I sold it off.

They are incredibly powerful weapons. Yes, it's a weapon, make no mistake about it.

The one I had was as new and a machinists dream.

It came packed in a transit chest with all of its accessories, including a scope, that mounted on the left side of the receiver.

The thing is a mauler, on both ends.

It was also amazingly accurate.

We set out a piece of 1inch AR plate at 500 yards that was 2 feet square. It shot amazingly flat. No problem hitting that plate at all. I just punched neat little holes through it, like it was a piece of cheeze.

It was also heavy. Definitely needed a crew to operate and load it. As far as dragging it goes, it takes two guys to carry it into position and two more to carry the ammo crate with 8 full mags.

I don't know how many of those came into Canada, but back then, you could just drive across the border and pick one up new in the box. It raised a few eyebrows at the border but mostly just because the guards were interested in it, rather than concerned about it.

I was glad to buy it and use it but as I said, the thing was brutal to fire from any position.

Ideally, it should have been mounted in a cradle.

Mine, was semi auto only. Didn't look like there was any provision on it to make it full auto from the time it was produced. It didn't have to be. Two quick shots on any soft skinned vehicle, would put it out of commission.

We shot up a wrecked logging truck that had been stripped, then abandoned in a logging cut. One shot into the rear end, ripped it off one side of the frame and the armor piercing round bent the axle and cracked the differential.

Very powerful round.
 
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