Originally Posted by gunner500
Originally Posted by Chipolopolo
Originally Posted by gunner500
My very worst kicker is an 8-Bore rifle, it fires an 850 gr round ball over 300 grains of FFG Swiss powder at 1400 fps.

The rifle weighs 10.0 lbs even, and IIRC churns out about 190 ft. lbs. recoil energy.

Gunner


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I shot this 4 Bore in Australia, it weighted 19 pounds. It was a late 1800's era Bland. It shot a 1500 grain lead ball. It was a pleasure to shoot at 19#'s


Thats cool as hell, was it a double rifle?

Gunner


Nope, It was a top break single. The thing looked like it was just a couple years old. It was actually over 120 years old. The guy shot about 5 buffalo, a donkey and some other stuff with it. He loaded his ammo every night. You can only fly on Qantas with 5 kilos of ammo. So, he brought loose lead balls, and unprimed cases. We stopped at a gun shop in Darwin, he just simply walked in and bought primers and powder.