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...would be the .577 Nitro Express, and you can probably guess why...
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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BWAAHAHAHAHA, it was my pleasure Tex, I have a doubled gallon plastic bag of 100 rounds I reloaded sometime back when I thought I'd get to go pig hunt with you guys this Spring, I was gonna bring it just for YOU!
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It WAS a privilege to shoot it, a wonderful rifle. Cured me of wanting one, however!
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” ― G. Orwell
"Why can't men kill big game with the same cartridges women and kids use?" _Eileen Clarke
"Unjust authority confers no obligation of obedience." - Alexander Hamilton
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I would be scared to fire it
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Mark
NRA Life Member Anytime anyone kicks cancers azz is a good day!
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
Oh The Drama!
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Uummmmmm...what is "remotely close?"
Don't be the darkness.
America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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tex n cal,
If you ever get a chance, try the .600 Nitro Express....
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
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An African hunter (I forget who) once was asked why he used a 600 nitro express. He replied, because they don't make a bloody 700 nitro express.
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tex n cal,
If you ever get a chance, try the .600 Nitro Express.... As I told a friend not long after shooting the .577, if an elephant was charging me, and the .577 was laying in front of me, I'd have to think about it... so no to the .600. I have shot .458's off the bench, and can handle them fine. Would like to have a .416 Rigby at some point. I think it was JA Hunter who said the .500 Nitro was his limit, and I suspect it's mine as well!
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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I've never fired anything like the .577. Biggest I have owned and fired was a 416 Rigby and a 378 Wby. Those kicked enough for me, thank you very much.
"For joy of knowing what may not be known we take the golden road to Samarkand." James Elroy Flecker
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It WAS a privilege to shoot it, a wonderful rifle. Cured me of wanting one, however! LOL!
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I have done .416 Taylor, .416 Rigby and .458 Lott, both from the bench and off hand.
Those were enough for me. I don't even own them anymore since my Cape Buffalo.
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Absolutely correct, the 600 and even 700 Nitros pale in comparison to my 8 Bore black powder rifle. IIRC, a 10lb rifle firing 400 grs black powder under an 825 gr round ball at 1450 fps has 190 ft. lbs free recoil! That old heifer really boots fully loaded, the 300 gr charge is plenty enough for me or anything I'd ever hunt with it.
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I have done .416 Taylor, .416 Rigby and .458 Lott, both from the bench and off hand.
Those were enough for me. I don't even own them anymore since my Cape Buffalo.
donsm70 10 or so years ago a buddy showed up here with a Ruger #1 in 458 Lott asking if I could help him zero it. He had a new Leupold scope and 4 boxes of ammo, that Lott really boots from the bench Don.
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Gunner I loved shooting both of them
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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Gunner I loved shooting both of them Hey Bea, I was pleased to find 30 Woodleigh 750 gr softs and 30 solids going through my load bench awhile back, those came with the rifle and I had forgot about them, I loaded them up with some 40 or so rounds I already had loaded. We need to have another pig hunt in Tennessee so's we can shoot em up buddy.
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A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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You bet, you could bring all your new guns for us too see and shoot, bet you've built 10 damn guns since we hunted Tennessee.
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Call me a wuss, and that's OK. My .375 H&H is more than enough for me, and it's 9 1/2# with a Decelerator pad. Never did care for recoil. That's why I have so many 7x57s and smaller.
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