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Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge guns?
07/03/10 07:07 AM

Bore or gauge rifles are simply a rifle whose case and bore are measured in terms of shotgun gauge 20,12,10etc. "Paradox" style guns were designed to shoot both conical ball and shot. They could shoot further and with a heavier conical bullet than a roundball gun and with some choke in the shot patterning. Paradox guns weigh less than a fully rifled gun but only slightly more than a shotgun.
There were a number of systems used by various makers to achieve the balance between bullet stabilization and shot patterning , invisible rifling, oval boring but the most effective was the Fosbury paradox rifled choke system used by Holland and later by most other makers. The standard 12 bore conical would have been about 740grs. The big bore paradoxes are true dangerous game guns and give away nothing but a little recoil when compared to their fully rifled counterparts.

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conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge guns?	doubleriflejack	07/03/10 05:37 AM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge guns?	gatsby	07/03/10 07:07 AM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge guns?	jaz	07/03/10 09:56 AM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge guns?	gatsby	07/03/10 10:30 AM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge guns?	tinker	07/03/10 03:39 PM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	calpappas	16/03/10 01:16 PM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	DarylS	17/03/10 01:24 AM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	Grenadier	17/03/10 05:49 AM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	DarylS	17/03/10 01:25 PM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	Grenadier	18/03/10 01:07 PM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	gatsby	18/03/10 05:25 PM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	DarylS	19/03/10 01:54 AM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	Grenadier	23/03/10 10:25 AM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	gatsby	24/03/10 03:22 PM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	Grenadier	24/03/10 06:05 PM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	gatsby	25/03/10 02:04 AM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	DarylS	25/03/10 03:21 AM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	DarylS	24/03/10 06:37 AM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	Grenadier	24/03/10 10:27 AM
Re: conical bullet weight for paradox like guns, and gauge g	gatsby	18/03/10 10:24 AM

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