The BIGGEST Bore Rifle????

[satx78247]

Don't know, can't say & won't know in this life.

yours, satx

 

[Rifleman1776]

Personally, it was a .72 cal. It was an original CW rifled musket, one of 2,000 experimentals built in Austria. But, obviously never adapted. It had a long Nock style breech that required 120 gr. bp to avoid an air gap. The rifle wasn't heavy. I could shoot three rounds with a round ball before my flinching was too much to control. I knew the pain was coming. Those three rounds gave me a purple shoulder bruise that lasted more than a week. I know that 11 or 12 ga. was pipsqueek compared to what we are talking about. Just answering yer question. Big enuf for me. :shocked2:

 

[Billnpatti]

I don't understand why you refer to it as a "TAME" rhino. :idunno: It was not hand fed and the confinement area, if indeed, it was actually confined, consisted of quite a few square miles, not a fenced in pasture. My understanding :hmm: was that they knew exactly which rhino needed to be culled but it was going to have to be hunted in a fair chase hunt. But, I have been wrong before :surrender: .......I remember the time well, it was back in the 50s, I think. :haha:

 

[azmntman]

I wasn't born yet in the 50's but my pop used to talk bout it a lot. :blah:

 

[satx78247]

You mean to tell me that you didn't get to watch the 1st run LEAVE IT TO BEAVER episodes OR see the PEERLESS Marilyn Monroe, alive & looking LOVELY?
(POOR, POOR, you.)

yours, satx

 

[Scota4570]

I made an 18# 4-bore. The bore is actually 1-inch and I shoot .990" balls. It is a back action smoothbore. After shooting it a couple of times I added a recoil pad. The bruising on my shoulder got to be bothersome. Recoil, Up to 250 grains 1F, it is no big deal. Just a push. At 300 grains thing get interesting but still not brutal. I ONCE tried 350 grains. That is too much. I saw stars, like I got punched in the head. My speach was incohearant for half a minuet or so. I think that is a consussion.

It was an interesting project but I don't shoot it anymore.

 

[azmntman]

ZULU :haha:

 

[satx78247]

And you're planning to do WHAT with it????

Sounds like a GREAT weapon for CLOSE range work on wounded game, when loaded with buckshot OR buck & ball.

yours, satx

 

[satx78247]

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yours, satx

 

[azmntman]

ZULU is netflix's big brother! :blah:

 

[satx78247]

To us EOF, "ZULU" is a WELL-MADE (and for HOLLYWIERD, fairly correct) 1964 movie recreation of the Battle of Roark's Drift, starring Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, James Booth, et.al.

Never even heard of the other "Zulu".

yours, satx

 

[Patocazador]

Oddly enough, I watched the movie "Zulu" last night when the super bowl turned into the "stupor" bowl.

Interestingly, Chief Cetshwayo was played by the current chief of the Zulu tribe, Chief (now minister) Buthelezi.

 

[satx78247]

Have you seen ZULU DAWN, The JAN 1879 Battle of Isandlwana, released 1979, starring Peter O'Toole, Burt Lancaster, John Mills, and others?

yours, satx

 

[Patocazador]

Yeah and Shaka Zulu.

The best, and most accurate, reference re: the Zulu nation is "The Washing Of The Spears" by Donald Morris. It's a very large book and pretty expensive but gives the whole history of the Zulu nation. He even gives a primer on speaking the Zulu language with the clicks and clucks involved.

 

[satx78247]

The SAPL doesn't have THE WASHING OF THE SPEARS & isn't really good about getting things from ILL.- Thus, I've NOT read it.

yours, satx

 

[azmntman]

ZULU is also a chromecast" thingy yer kids can install on yer TV and/or tablet and/or phone so's u can watch leave it to beaver, andy Griffith n other shows n movies on TV, tablet or phone (like netflix). I found it very helpful a month ago when I had the flu and soaked in the tub over three episodes of the Rifleman (adding hot water as needed of course).

 

[Patocazador]

Wow, I just found out that they've really come down in price. http://www.amazon.com/Washing-Spea...1462972&sr=1-2&keywords=washing+of+the+spears

I had to pay over $80 for mine about a dozen years ago.

 

[Scota4570]

In response to Scota4570

And you're planning to do WHAT with it????

Sounds like a GREAT weapon for CLOSE range work on wounded game, when loaded with buckshot OR buck & ball.

yours, satx


Well, I just wanted something different and a challenging project. It does shoot a formatable shot pattern. 4 ounces of BB against a rising group of ducks would be devestating, illegal too. As for ball I had hoped to shoot a hog with it. Unfortunately California made lead bullets illegal in my area shortly after I made the gun. It is 50 yard minuet of hog accurate. Of course it is extreme overkill for pigs but, why not? I find it very satisfying to take game with guns I have made or rebuilt. The DIY aspect adds to the accomplishment.

 

[satx78247]

UNDERSTOOD. = I may buy that HB copy in "VG condition" that's 1.77 + 3.99 S&H.

yours, satx

 

[satx78247]

UNDERSTOOD. - Fyi, I was once stationed in San Pedro as PM of USAMTMC.

My suggestion: Paint GTT on your front door & "GIT OUT" while the gittin' is good.

I've told friends that I'll return to CA when it becomes a State of LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS de AZATLAN but not until then.

just my opinion, satx