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Omnivorous_Bob
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Re: 4-Bore Elephant
      26/05/11 06:03 PM

Thanks for the complement John. I greatly appreciate the work you do to keep up this site for us like minded guys.

Gatsby, I couldn't find the specs on Stanley's 4-bore from Lewis, but here is the description of the identical one he also had for sale at that time. I don't know who ended up buying it.

MASSIVE BELGIAN
4-bore single-barrel breech-loading rifle, c1870. Wt. 20-1/2 Ibs. 14-1/4" LOP over rubber recoil pad. Superb 26" rifled steel barrel is octagonal at breech, becoming round about half way to the muzzle. 100% reblack finish and bore absolutely mint. Rolling-block action (very similar to Remington rolling-block action is niceIy engraved and has 100% color hardening. Original straight-grip stock and forend have sharp checkering and 100% finish. This fine old rifle comes with about 20 rounds of custom brass arnmo, bullet mold, sizing die, and custom leather cheek pad, which laces on over the butt stock. This behemoth is the same type of 4-bore elephant rifle that H.M. Stanley purchased in Zanzibar for his foirst journey into the African interior in search of Dr. Livingstone and it will generate more muzzle energy than a modern .600 N.E. Take it along and add a whole new dimension to your next safari.



The round in the display case looked like a modern 4" 4-bore cartridge of around 1" diameter, but they had no details as to if that actually fit the gun. I wish there had been something in addidtion to the leopard to give a sense of scale, as it was a BIG gun.

Bob

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"If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?"

Edited by CptCurl (26/05/11 08:57 PM)

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