Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters FINALLY ... I found an A-Square 577 Tyrannosaur - "The Mighty 577 T-REX"

After watching those videos I’m going to withdraw my offer to try it at least once.
And definitely not sitting down. That’s some badass [bleep].

Thanks Buckstix. My guess as to the number of .577 T-Rex made would be a little higher than yours,say 30 or so. In the A-Square reloading manual Art Alphin mentioned that there were a dozen T-Rex's headed to Africa at the time the manual was in edit. Most certainly over a dozen IMO.

Serious question - do you worry about physical injury shooting something like this? Watching those poor saps shooting that cannon with such poor form I could easily see a dislocated shoulder, rotator cuff or labrum tear, humerus fracture, collar bone fracture, AC joint separation, or my personal worst fear - retina detachment in the eye.

Hello elkhunternm.

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, in re-reading the manual, it said "2 dozen" were on the way to Africa. I'm thinking that perhaps the "one dozen" comment were for those sold here in the USA.

As a follow-up, temperature was about 39 degrees above yesterday, up from 26 below zero on Thursday. That's about a 65 degree swing in less than 72 hours. So, I finally got got out to the range to test fire the T-Rex. However, nothing spectacular happened because I'm slowly working up loads and I only got up to about 577 NE levels; that being 2050 fps velocity. That's only 94 ft/lbs of recoil energy and it was a "fun load" shooting level. That being said, I never thought I would use the words "only" and "94 ft/lbs of recoil energy" in the same sentence.

buckstix, do you still have your Tyrannosaur? Been looking for one for YEARS! Would you consider selling for the right price?

It's a nice rifle, but my neck hurts just looking at it.

All I can say is OUCH!!!!!

That rifle reminds me of many of the WWII French military rifles. Fired once and dropped...

Thanks, Dinny

It looks to me a fine deer rifle for those bigger deer.

I see that this post was back in 2019. A couple of years ago, Art was coming out to our range and shooting skeet with us. Haven't seen or heard from him for quite a while. I was just wondering how he was doing.

From the videos, I think that that rifle kicks a "little" more than my favorite rifle caliber------------- the elephant killing 7x57 (7mm Mauser)!

Beautiful rifle and congratulations...to your orthopedic surgeon...

I knew right away only you would want to hunt one of these down. Congrats! Nice addition to your very select collection.

For those that don't know, when Buckstix gets into something, he does it right. He has collected some unbelievably nice doubles.

Hello hatari,
Thanks for the reply.

It took me 5 years to find the first one .... and only 4 days to find a second one. And its even nicer.

here's the link

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/14980055

Shooting video please.



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Now you can simply walk up and slay the beast...

Nice rifles, always wanted to try one out. What’s it like?

Those are very nice rifles.

I would like to see what the 577 T-REX would do to a charging grizzly.