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Marrakai
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Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....
26/03/04 12:33 AM

4seventy:
NitroX's first double is a 24-inch barrelled Jeffery, so I don't think he need look any further for 'magic' handling qualities! Its all downhill from there!
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When I passed the comment that the .577 x 2 3/4 is a cartridge whose day may finally have come, I had in mind two important factors which render all the old rhetoric obsolete. They are:

1. Newly made doubles (like the Searcy), with modern steel, made to the customer's weight and power requirements. We are no longer bound to 1650 fps like the old 'nitro-for-black' loadings, or a specific factory load, anything up to 1950 fps (or more?!) can be regulated by the manufacturer on demand.

2. The two new Woodleigh bullets (Catalogue Nos. 3A and 4A). Never before (to my knowledge) has a 650-grain bonded-core bullet been offered with the thick jacket , and if Kynoch ever made a steel-jacketed solid in 650-grain with a reinforced nose, they are too rare to shoot today. With these new bullets, the old penetration prejudices simply no longer hold.

These new rifles and bullets extend the usefulness of the .577 Light Nitro way beyond that ever envisaged by the British gun trade a century ago. Over 5,000 ftlbs of ME, with bonded-core softs or steel-jacketed solids, has definitely moved this cartridge up from the realm of a 'good tiger/lion gun' to a versatile modern big-bore and perhaps the perfect buffalo gun. For the 99.99% of us who will never pull the trigger on an elephant or rhino, I reckon this chambering is worth very serious consideration!

Woodleigh 650-grain .577 Weldcores recovered from buffalo:
Left: CatNo.5 (for BP), Right: CatNo.3A (for Nitro)

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Marrakai
When the bull drops, the bullshit stops!
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Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	Marrakai	23/03/04 11:55 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	mickey	24/03/04 02:57 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	475Guy	24/03/04 07:05 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	nopride2	24/03/04 02:40 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	mickey	24/03/04 02:54 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	nopride2	25/03/04 02:49 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	mickey	25/03/04 03:27 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	NitroX	24/03/04 02:04 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	470Rigby	01/04/04 11:49 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	Marrakai	02/04/04 06:52 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	470Rigby	04/04/04 09:19 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	Marrakai	04/04/04 11:26 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	470Rigby	05/04/04 07:35 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	475Guy	04/04/04 12:36 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	Marrakai	05/04/04 09:11 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	470Rigby	06/04/04 01:54 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	Marrakai	08/04/04 12:57 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	NitroX	07/04/04 03:51 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	4seventy	06/04/04 07:06 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	470Rigby	08/04/04 09:40 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	Bakes	08/04/04 10:59 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	mickey	08/04/04 02:13 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	500Nitro	20/11/05 06:33 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	bonanza	20/11/05 01:24 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	4seventy	25/03/04 08:46 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	Marrakai	26/03/04 12:33 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	4seventy	27/03/04 08:42 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	docEE	29/03/04 09:19 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	475Guy	29/03/04 11:28 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	NitroX	29/03/04 01:32 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	500grains	25/03/04 11:44 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	NitroX	25/03/04 11:55 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	500grains	25/03/04 12:04 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	Marrakai	25/03/04 12:00 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	NitroX	25/03/04 02:57 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	mickey	25/03/04 02:23 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	Marrakai	29/03/04 08:32 PM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	mickey	24/03/04 05:41 AM
Re: Best Double Rifle Chambering? An opinion....	ThomasEdwards	24/03/04 07:41 AM

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