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8-bore Explora Safari
      #365588 - 18/05/22 08:53 PM

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Re: 8-bore Explora Safari [Re: NitroX]
      #365621 - 19/05/22 09:58 AM

Sounds like fun! Thanks for posting.




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Re: 8-bore Explora Safari [Re: FlatTop45]
      #365623 - 19/05/22 10:55 AM

Very cool, and honest “no Blue Dot kid stuff” 10 Dram black powder loads.
I can attest, the BP loads in an 8 bore (or 4 bore) are the real deal.
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Re: 8-bore Explora Safari [Re: 3DogMike]
      #365663 - 20/05/22 08:36 AM

Interesting story, especially the difficulties in getting it to shot. One of the chaps at the BGRC has an original Explora which is extremely accurate. But that was after a very long time developing loads and casting a number of different projectiles with slight differences. The problem with these ball and shot guns is that during the time they were actually used, ammunition was only available for your gun from the manufacturer of your gun. Therefore getting them to regulate can be very difficult as you need to be able to replicate the ammunition almost exactly. And minute differences seem to make a bigger change in one of these guns than a normal double.

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Re: 8-bore Explora Safari [Re: Waidmannsheil]
      #365666 - 20/05/22 10:57 AM

Great story !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: 8-bore Explora Safari [Re: bwanabobftw]
      #365670 - 20/05/22 06:09 PM

I think I feel a headache coming on just reading this!
The recoil must have been horrendous, but boy it would be fun to give it a crack!

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