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Re: Stoeger elephant gun
      27/08/14 08:41 AM

Appears to be a shortened military musket, but .90 is not normal - however it is normal for a shortened shoothbore gun for waterfowl. Francis Selous used a (or more) shortened Dutch 4 bore duck/goose gun as his elephant gun for a number of years. He wrote he wished he'd never done that as the recoil developed in him a flinch he could not eliminate.

A 6 1/2 bore would do nicely as well, I'm sure, given the normal ranges in dense bush.

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* Stoeger elephant gun Tom_H 27/08/14 12:06 AM
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. * * Re: Stoeger elephant gun DarylSModerator   27/08/14 08:41 AM
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. * * Re: Stoeger elephant gun Tom_H   28/08/14 03:37 AM
. * * Re: Stoeger elephant gun lancaster   29/08/14 01:36 AM
. * * Re: Stoeger elephant gun DarylSModerator   29/08/14 09:04 AM
. * * Re: Stoeger elephant gun Don   29/08/14 11:48 AM
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