Forums.NitroExpress.com

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact NitroExpress.com: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies

*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

You are not logged in. [Login]

Main Index · Search · Active Topics
New user · Who's Online · FAQ · Calendar

Shooting & Reloading - Mausers, Big Bores and others >> Big Bore Rifles

Ruger_450
Banned

Reged: 10/03/13
Posts: 163
Loc: WY & FL

Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?
04/04/14 08:06 AM

You don't want the Ballard High wall in 300 flanged.

I spent two grand buying a Ballard Highwall (ANNB) from the late great Thad Scott. It was a beautiful rifle to say the least. But the Ballard High Wall uses the same extractor as the original High Wall. It would not extract factory 300 H&H loads w/o using a cleaning rod. It would sorta work with 30-40 level hand loads. So I sent it off to Wyoming Armory which converted it to 30 flanged. Slight improvement but still 30-40 loads were the maximum. I suppose I could have tried a 30 flanged "Weatherby" that might have worked better, but I sent it down the road to someone willing to pour more money into it. The Browning and the contemporary Winchester High Walls have totally different guts and pop out magnums with a spring assisted extractor/ejector. Ruger No. 1 & 3s also work great.

My Ballard was a Wyoming built one and my understanding is that since the "wife driven" move back to MI, there are not the rifles they were.

She is/was a beautiful piece of custom rifle building but about as useful as an Enzo with a broken crankshaft.

If limited to two rifles for NA big game, probably be my R1 in 300 WinMag and A Bolt in 375 H&H.

Post Extras

Print Post

Remind Me!

Notify Moderator

Entire topic
Subject	Posted by	Posted on
Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Rell	03/04/14 11:04 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	458Shooter	06/05/14 02:19 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	CZ_hunter	13/04/14 08:18 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Rule303	04/04/14 03:47 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	JabaliHunter	04/04/14 11:06 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Ahmed577	04/04/14 11:45 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	JACKEL	05/04/14 02:34 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	gatsby	04/04/14 03:09 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	bonanza	03/04/14 11:13 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	bonanza	05/04/14 04:01 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Rell	05/04/14 11:19 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Ruger_450	05/04/14 02:26 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	xausa	05/04/14 11:43 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Tom30887	24/04/14 04:27 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	NitroX	10/04/14 02:16 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	szihn	10/04/14 10:26 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	DarylS	10/04/14 10:34 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	hubel458	10/04/14 06:33 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	DarylS	11/04/14 02:11 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Sevens	13/04/14 02:23 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Don	07/04/14 05:13 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Nick_Adams	24/04/14 05:58 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	NitroX	06/05/14 05:45 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	kamilaroi	24/04/14 09:11 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	BB416	04/04/14 09:08 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Marrakai	04/04/14 10:40 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Dumprat	04/04/14 11:09 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	NitroX	10/04/14 02:11 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Claydog	04/04/14 11:28 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget	Postman	04/04/14 11:40 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget	szihn	04/04/14 02:15 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget	DarylS	04/04/14 02:55 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	jvw	04/04/14 05:58 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	lancaster	04/04/14 06:09 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Igorrock	04/04/14 07:03 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Huvius	04/04/14 08:21 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Omnivorous_Bob	10/05/14 04:32 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	hunter_angler	03/04/14 11:50 PM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Ruger_450	04/04/14 08:06 AM
Re: Only 2 rifles, unlimited budget?	Dumprat	04/04/14 12:49 AM

Extra information

2 registered and 59 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator:

Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating:
Thread views: 19854

Jump to

NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact

Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved