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Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant
      11/09/09 03:16 AM

Here's another way to see it. This from me with no experience shooting pahyderms!!

A huge amount of time, labor, energy and $$$$, not to mention hype went in to the development of this here Big'Un.

If it doesn't perform vastly, noticeably, repeatably and dramatically better than the garden run .416, .458 or .505 then it seems to me it was an exercise in fantasy gunsmithing, along the lines of some of the 17th Century Baroque artists' embellished court pieces of yesteryear or at the other end of the spectrum the fantastical and more-or-less useless display knives a fellow sees at flea markets and swap-meets. Granted, the .700 is the modern Rich Guy's version of both, naturally...

Still amazing accomplishments of skill and concept, but the argument that the gun accomplishes anything other calibers don't already provide seems stretched.

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* 700 Nitro on Elephant Ripp 10/09/09 11:00 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant capoward   04/11/09 06:02 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant bwananelson   05/11/09 11:51 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant hubel458   13/11/09 06:48 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant 450_366   13/11/09 08:53 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant Ripp   13/11/09 11:47 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant 500grains   12/09/09 12:31 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant 9.3x57   12/09/09 12:38 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant 500grains   14/11/09 03:38 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant hubel458   15/11/09 04:58 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant Shackleton   12/09/09 01:05 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant 450_366   12/09/09 01:22 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant walksfar   15/09/09 07:16 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant eagle27   16/09/09 04:37 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant kamilaroi   16/09/09 06:17 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant controlled_feed   16/09/09 07:15 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant bigdog   27/09/09 02:41 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant Der_Jaeger   10/09/09 11:25 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant 9.3x57   10/09/09 11:36 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant cooch   11/09/09 12:32 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant 500Nitro   11/09/09 01:12 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant 9.3x57   11/09/09 03:16 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant Ripp   11/09/09 05:20 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant AzGuy   11/09/09 06:05 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant degoins   11/09/09 07:30 AM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant kamilaroi   11/09/09 03:39 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant 500Nitro   11/09/09 03:52 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant eagle27   11/09/09 05:44 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant JabaliHunter   11/09/09 09:46 PM
. * * Re: 700 Nitro on Elephant DUGABOY1   10/10/09 07:21 AM

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