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

Marrakai
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Re: BIG, BIG Bores
26/03/05 03:38 PM

Oldarge:

In reply to:

Check the documentation

Checked the documentation, and the only reference I can find anywhere to 4-bore penetration of only 3 inches is in mbogo's post!

I did find a paragraph on the 8-bore which might interest you though, penned by R.C.F. Maugham, inveterate big game hunter, and His Majesty's Consul-General at Beira, Portugese East Africa; (writing just after the turn of the century):

"....no hunter in his right senses should place his blind trust in such a weapon as even the .450 cordite rifle to extricate him from the thousand and one dangers by which he is liable from day to day to be confronted in Africa. I therefore unhesitatingly advocate, in addition to the most perfected type of modern high-velocity weapon which we are ever likely to see, the inclusion of a sound, heavy rifle intended for use at close range, the shock of whose bullet, even if it should not instantly kill, will assuredly be sufficiently great to disable or turn a charging beast."
His recommendation?
"..a heavy eight-bore, which I look upon as the ideal weapon par excellance for this purpose".

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BIG, BIG Bores	1885	20/03/05 09:20 AM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	4seventy	20/03/05 10:58 AM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	1885	21/03/05 02:10 AM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	Oldsarge	21/03/05 04:11 AM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	1885	21/03/05 07:56 AM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	mbogo	21/03/05 09:19 AM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	JohnTheGreek	28/03/05 11:51 PM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	Oldsarge	21/03/05 09:45 AM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	Marrakai	21/03/05 08:12 PM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	JohnTheGreek	24/03/05 07:57 AM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	Oldsarge	23/03/05 01:27 PM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	Marrakai	26/03/05 03:38 PM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	500grains	27/03/05 03:22 AM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	mbogo	27/03/05 07:14 AM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	mbogo	27/03/05 07:16 AM
Re: BIG, BIG Bores	Marrakai	28/03/05 11:19 AM

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