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Not trying to bore anybody, but the specs on the ultra lightweight 500 Jeffery are as follows. Stainless steel winchester control feed action, 16" shilen barrel, stainless steel 1/4 rib, banded front sight, grey wood laminated stock, dual cross bolts, shoots 570 grain Barnes bullets at 2200 ft./sec. for 6100 ft.lbs. 7" drop at 200 yards. On A.R. find " Grizzinator" for picture. Thats what Safari Kid named the gun when he originally had it made.

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My 22 lr Winchester 69A without scope, but with factory receiver sight, weighs 5.8 pounds. Aside from the recoil question, I would find it very difficult to aim such a light rifle if I were breathing heavily from running to reach a shooting position, which happened to me on several occasions in Africa.

Frederick Courtney Selous mentioned acquiring a lifelong flinch from shooting a heavy recoiling black powder bore rifle. Using such a ridiculously light rifle in such a heavy caliber could well have the same effect. My .505 SRE wildcat develops virtually the same ballistics as the .500 Jeffery load just mentioned, and it weighs in at a modest 8.75 pounds. I would not care to reduce the weight at all.

In my younger years, I carried my 8+ pound M14 rifle 50 miles on a march starting at 8:00 on Friday morning and ending at 10:00 the next day, and the weight of the rifle was the least of my worries.

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