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Nick_Adams
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Re: .404 Jeffrey
02/02/04 04:11 AM

Thanks to everyone for the great follow-up information.

I checked out Winchester's custom shop and see that the .404 is offered as a specialty. Price is pretty steep. But I wonder if they'll add it this year as a regular caliber in the Safari rifle? In a bolt gun, maybe going the CZ "conversion" route gets you to the same place with less expense.

The Ruger # 1 in .404 Jeffrey at NECG is tempting, but Atkinson's comment about the screw-up in chambering the M77s has me wondering whether this also happened with the run of .404 #1s? I had always seen that spec too - that a .404 has a .423 bore diameter. How hard can that be to screw-up?

FWIW, in his book, African Rifles, Gregor Woods mentions several times that over the decades the .404 Jeffrey has accounted for more large, dangerous game (LDG) than all the other big bores like the 416s and 458s. He notes that game-control officers really liked the .404 for taking out "nuisance" animals and for culling operations, whether it involved elephants, lions, buffalo, etc. He also cites the fact that the .404's 400gn load has the lowest "felt-recoil" of any of the 400-&-up bores, making it easy to shoot well for people who want to hunt LDG with something bigger than a 375H&H. Getting yourself less beat up with a .404 than, say, a 416 Rigby, would surely encourage one to practice with it more too.

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.404 Jeffrey	Nick_Adams	31/12/03 12:35 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	500Nitro	01/01/04 06:55 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	mickey	02/01/04 06:09 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	Nick_Adams	02/01/04 09:26 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	Nick_Adams	11/01/04 02:58 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	RLI	30/01/04 11:08 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	Pettson	31/01/04 11:27 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	atkinson6	31/01/04 11:37 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	Pettson	31/01/04 11:48 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	mickey	30/01/04 02:39 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	atkinson6	30/01/04 03:07 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	Rusty	01/01/04 06:19 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	mcb	01/01/04 02:29 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	Nick_Adams	01/01/04 04:39 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	luv2safari	31/01/04 02:17 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	atkinson6	01/02/04 09:18 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	luv2safari	01/02/04 04:26 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	atkinson6	02/02/04 05:23 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	Nick_Adams	02/02/04 10:19 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	atkinson6	03/02/04 03:41 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	mickey	03/02/04 06:38 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	Nick_Adams	04/02/04 12:14 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	atkinson6	17/02/04 03:14 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	Nick_Adams	21/05/04 10:57 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	NH_Hunter	02/06/04 09:14 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	atkinson6	25/06/04 01:21 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	Nick_Adams	02/02/04 04:11 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	Pettson	01/02/04 11:50 AM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	chrispie	30/01/04 02:10 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	NONE	01/01/04 06:26 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	NitroX	01/01/04 12:43 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	Rusty	31/12/03 09:08 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	mickey	31/12/03 04:34 PM
Re: .404 Jeffrey	wffHein	31/12/03 02:31 PM

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