The subject Woodward .500 BPE is one of exceptional beauty and form plus it has been taken care of for its life--at least from what I can see of it this is the case. You are to be congratulated for purchasing it--somehow I missed seeing it on the past Holt's auction.

If it were my rifle up there in North Carolina (I am down lower in South Carolina) I would not even think of using nitro propellant in it.

Are you perhaps coming to the Southern Side x Side event later this month at Sanford, North Carolina and bring your Woodward?

Kindest Regards;
Stephen Howell