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500grains
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Re: Best dangerous game Bolt action rifle?
26/03/07 04:54 AM

Doc,

I would not build a .500 AHR for two reasons. First, the brass is made by Bertram and their quality is quite poor in my experience with their brass in .470 NE, .500 NE, .600 NE, and .585 Nyati. Second, the .500 AHR has very little following and resale value will be poor.

I would not built a .500 Jeffery for two reasons. First, they are difficult to get to feed 100%, and there are very few people who know how to do that (and one of them work at AHR

). Second, even if yours feeds 100%, at the time of resale, buyers will be suspicious of it and it may be hard to sell.

If you wish to build a rifle in the under $5K category, I would just rebarrel a CZ550 in .416 Rigby to .500 A-Square. Add a recoil lug to the barrel, change the safety to a model 70 style, and get rid of the ugly factory bolt handle. Of course the crappy factory CZ sights should be discarded and a quality iron sight added.

If you are looking for a best quality gun, then I suggest the .505 Gibbs because it is an excellent cartridge and seems to have the best resale value. None of the big fat cartridges are easy to get to feed, but the Gibbs is not as hard as the .500 Jeff. Generally there are two paths to a .505 Gibbs. You could have an American riflemaker build one on a Granite Mountain Arms action. Or you could have Karl Heinz Ritterbusch or Gottfried Prechtl in Germany build the action and rifle for you from scratch. If you have the money and time, I would consider the German route. Ritterbusch can even make it a takedown if you want. Or you could get the gun made in the USA by one of the top end gunmakers based on a Granite Mountain Arms action. The European route will probably cost you 20K or more, and the American route will probably cost you 12K to 15K to get it done right. On the American side I would consider Ryan Breeding or Joe Smithson for the work. If you try to cut corners or save money on the project, the results could end up being unsatisfactory.

I killed 4 ele with a .505 made by Ryan Breeding. It was an excellent rifle and recoil was manageable due to stock design.

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