JohnTheGreek
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Finally! My new fiance's engagement gift to me is finished! Jim Gefroh sent me the photos of my new 8-bore a couple of days ago. While there are certainly aspects of the rifle that aren't PC (especially the sights), I can almost smell elephant dung just looking at these images.
The standing sight is regulated for an 830 grain .820 diameter patched round ball cast from wheel weights and the folding leaf for a 1360 grain conical pushed by 10 drams (273 grains) of 2F. Ballistically, H&H used very slightly larger diameter 892 grain pure lead round balls from a 26" bbl and got 1654 f/s yielding 5232 f/# of energy. Using a 1257 grain conical they got 1500 f/s and 6273 f/#. :shocked2:
Taking the rifle to Canada in January where it will hopefully be used to take a free roaming Bison. After that, the future wife and I are going house shopping in the Great White North! :grin:
Hope you all enjoy the photos.
Best,
John
The standing sight is regulated for an 830 grain .820 diameter patched round ball cast from wheel weights and the folding leaf for a 1360 grain conical pushed by 10 drams (273 grains) of 2F. Ballistically, H&H used very slightly larger diameter 892 grain pure lead round balls from a 26" bbl and got 1654 f/s yielding 5232 f/# of energy. Using a 1257 grain conical they got 1500 f/s and 6273 f/#. :shocked2:
Taking the rifle to Canada in January where it will hopefully be used to take a free roaming Bison. After that, the future wife and I are going house shopping in the Great White North! :grin:
Hope you all enjoy the photos.
Best,
John