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DarylS
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Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)
10/04/19 01:29 AM

The exact core measurements would be very nice to know. Baker wrote
IN the March 23rd, 1861, Baker wrote that:

"I strongly vote against conical balls for dangerous game; they make too neat a wound, and are very apt to glance on striking a bone. The larger the surface struck the greater will be the benumbing effect of the blow. . . In giving an opinion against conical balls for dangerous game, I do so from practical proofs of their inferiority. I had at one time a two-groove single rifle, weighing 21 lbs., carrying a 3oz. belted ball, with a charge of 12 drachms powder. This was a kind of " devil stopper " and never failed in flooring a charging elephant, although, if not struck in the brain, he might recover his legs. I had a conical mould made for this rifle, the ball of which weighed 4 oz., but instead of rendering it more Invincible, it entirely destroyed its efficacy, and brought me into such scrapes that I at length gave up the conical ball as useless."

3oz. is 1,312gr. & was the weight of the belted ball - for a rifled gun. The actual bore, not the groove dia. would have been in the 5-bore range, .977", or so, as needed to give room for the necessary patch.

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2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	Ripp	16/01/19 06:11 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	93x64mm	16/01/19 07:13 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	Sarg	16/01/19 09:15 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	Ripp	16/01/19 02:42 PM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	Sarg	16/01/19 03:46 PM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	DarylS	16/01/19 04:12 PM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	Karl	30/03/19 04:57 PM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	Longknife	01/04/19 12:22 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	DarylS	01/04/19 04:09 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	Karl	09/04/19 09:00 PM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	DarylS	10/04/19 01:29 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	szihn	10/04/19 03:41 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	93x64mm	10/04/19 05:56 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	szihn	10/04/19 08:11 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	DarylS	10/04/19 09:11 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	szihn	10/04/19 03:50 PM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	Longknife	29/05/19 10:52 PM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	DarylS	30/05/19 12:40 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	DarylS	31/03/19 04:18 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	Karl	01/04/19 12:19 AM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	Ripp	16/01/19 10:24 PM
Re: 2 Bore vs 470 Nitro pic..... perspective.. :)	Ripp	17/01/19 12:11 AM

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