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Re: A modern howdah cartridge
17/07/24 08:02 PM

The .500 S&W cartridge looks like an excellent contender. Except for one feature. It's name. No apologies a pukka howdah pistol cartridge needs an "imperial" named cartridge.

Smith & Wesson just leaves me flat. Fine in a revolver. But not in an Anglo-Indian Howdah pistol.

But easily solved. Do a "creedmoor". "Reinvent" an existing cartridge with a new name. Just Mahe the case slightly longer or shorter, shorter would be easier, and one could have a .500 Howdah Nitro Express. Don't even bother to change the brass case .... Just recognise the .500 Howdah Nitro Express is based on the ....

If I win lotto and have a British gunmaker make me a new Howdah pistol, I've always thought of shortening a .500 NE or a .577 NE case into a pistol length case. The handgun would need to not be overly large and heavy in the action and must have hammers. Do any Brit gunmakers still make guns with hammers? God forbid if one might need to go to Ferlach !!!

A detachable buttstock to make it truly versatile.

And it must be regulated.

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A modern howdah cartridge	NitroX	03/05/22 10:59 PM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	DarylS	04/05/22 01:51 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	NitroX	30/09/23 03:15 PM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	DarylS	01/10/23 03:07 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	9.3x57	01/10/23 10:33 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	NitroX	29/04/24 10:46 PM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	Jim_C	30/04/24 12:37 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	DarylS	30/04/24 12:59 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	lancaster	01/10/23 03:26 PM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	9.3x57	02/10/23 10:52 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	EDELWEISS	28/04/24 11:43 PM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	85lc	29/04/24 03:54 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	EDELWEISS	30/04/24 03:07 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	85lc	30/04/24 07:30 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	3DogMike	22/05/24 11:58 PM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	85lc	23/05/24 09:09 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	yamoon	16/07/24 01:50 PM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	lancaster	17/07/24 12:34 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	NitroX	17/07/24 02:09 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	DarylS	17/07/24 08:09 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	NitroX	17/07/24 08:02 PM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	lancaster	18/07/24 05:53 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	NitroX	19/07/24 04:16 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	NitroX	21/07/24 11:57 PM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	NitroX	22/07/24 12:09 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	NitroX	22/07/24 12:12 AM
Re: A modern howdah cartridge	DarylS	22/07/24 03:03 AM
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