JPK:
The Rodda double weighs a little over 9 1/2 lbs, and carries well. Many BP doubles are very barrel-heavy compared with the later nitro guns, but the top-lever hammerless BP rifles are 'transitional' and tend to balance OK. Because of the modest ballistiics, it is very comfortable to shoot. I don't think any of the bullets exited, but one may have. It was dark by the time I went looking (!), and after removing the shoulders I couldn't see an exit but could easily have missed it. I would have liked to recover all the bullets, being a keen amateur 'terminal-ballistician'(!), but even at modest velocity those 440-grainers mess things up a bit inside!



NitroX:
We retrieved the back-straps and the shoulders from that cow, and a shoulder from the bull next morning. Heavy enough in the back-pack! (....or so my wife assures me!)
Yes, the freezer looks quite well stocked at the moment!

We rarely have the luxury of retrieving meat because of the distances travelled on foot and the hot humid weather, but we have been having a few cool spells lately, down to about 14 degrees celcius overnight inland, so any animals killed in the early evening are good to go.

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So the old BPE level powered doubles still can kill.

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I am very fond of black-powder doubles, especially with 'nitro-for-black' loads using modern powders and premium jacketed bullets. They are much more capable today than they ever were, with heavier bonded-core bullets replacing the light-weight hollow-nose 'express' bullets of bygone days. A big-bore double without the excess weight and recoil of a full-nitro gun. Perfect for buffalo!

Alan: I think Bill would enjoy a photo, so send it on by all means. I'll see if I can get him a better one of a good bull laid low by the Rodda before the next wet!





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