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FrankMartinez
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My new Double- 500 bpe
      #128560 - 03/03/09 03:51 AM

Thought I might share a new for me underlever double in 500 BPE.
Thanks to help from NE450No2 and 400 Nitro Express and Bill Cooley and Hivelocity I have some basic working loads to play with. If anyone has a mold for the 440 grain cast for sale please let me know.
Frank

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Re: My new Double- 500 bpe [Re: FrankMartinez]
      #128561 - 03/03/09 03:55 AM

That is a nice rifle. With the straight grip, it should handle like an upland gun - beautiful!

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JabaliHunter
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Re: My new Double- 500 bpe [Re: DarylS]
      #128577 - 03/03/09 05:06 AM

Very nice! You are going to have fun with that one!
Don't think I've ever seen one that well polished ! Are you going to get it re-finished or shoot it as it is?

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Re: My new Double- 500 bpe [Re: JabaliHunter]
      #128592 - 03/03/09 08:27 AM

..yes...a real nice uplander...

Nice find

3" or 3.25"??

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Vette447
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Re: My new Double- 500 bpe [Re: rigbymauser]
      #128621 - 03/03/09 03:41 PM

Nice find. Congrats and thanks for sharing.

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Re: My new Double- 500 bpe [Re: Vette447]
      #128628 - 03/03/09 04:47 PM

A great name on those locks, too!!

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Re: My new Double- 500 bpe [Re: Marrakai]
      #128640 - 03/03/09 07:59 PM

i picked up on that as well

marrakai, any family connections ?

best

peter

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Re: My new Double- 500 bpe [Re: FrankMartinez]
      #128693 - 04/03/09 06:38 AM

Frank,

What a grand old name that I can identify with! P Orr and Sons of Madras and Rangoon were in my former hometown in South India and I would go there as a boy to look at the guns that they had on sale. My father had his clinic across the road at the old Travancore Palace property (which was torn down to make way for government offices some twenty years ago) and though the company still exists, they sell cheap watches these days. All of the gunsmiths in Madras (since renamed Chennai) were employed at P Orr and Sons at one time.

Take it from me - your rifle would have a history that would be very interesting if you could trace it. In my personal opinion, there are three possibilities - the Chettinad royalty or Chettiar businessmen in Burma, some of the Andhra Zamindars or the Arcot or Hyderabad royal families would, most probably, have been the original owners considering the clientele that P Orr and Sons dealt with. As I often wonder when seeing lovely old guns, if only the rifle could talk!

Congratulations and do keep posting pictures especially when you hunt with her. You have a piece of Indian history from a past that is forever gone in your gunsafe.

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FrankMartinez
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Re: My new Double- 500 bpe [Re: mehulkamdar]
      #128844 - 06/03/09 09:06 AM

Thank you for the great extra bit of information. I will post once I receive the promised information regarding my rifle. I do know it originated in India and went to Birmingham for restoration and repair.
It would really please me to know that it had indeed hunted in India. I plan to add black bear and deer along with wild hogs to the animals take with this beauty.
It carries well and goes up like a good double. I hunt regularly with a Fabio Zanotti de Balogna in 16 and they handle very similarly.
Frank

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