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Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catridge?
04/12/05 10:16 AM

All I know about it, is that it was his "Devil Stopper" and never failed to floor a charging elephant. I seem to recall that the 2 bore bore size was around 1 1/2" & that the gun weighed some 25 or 30 lbs. At that, they'd line up 20 'kaffers'(their name for their packers) each one holding the one in front and the lead one would hold the gun to fire it. This was so it's barrels could be cleaned & loaded fresh. They did this once a week. On each shot, there'd be all 20 of them spread around on the ground. Seems to me, they were using small bodied bushmen for packers at that time. HE wrote he fired this gun some 20 times himself, and that it produced in him an awful flinch he could never get rid of and lamented every having it made up. Most of us today, wouldn't fire an 8 bore with the loads they used on Elephant, more than once.
: He had a slug mould made for his other stopper, a 4 bore double, which ruined it's killing powder. Obviously, a 1/4 pound ball, just over 1" in diameter, is all that's really needed in the sorst situation. The 4-bore slug, however wouldn't kill worth a damn.

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what was the most powerfull bp big game catridge?	agent00	04/12/05 04:29 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catridge?	Dphariss	21/04/06 12:09 PM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	empirevr	19/09/06 09:47 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	DarylS	15/12/06 04:24 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	Marrakai	15/12/06 10:39 PM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catridge?	gatsby	05/12/05 08:00 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catridge?	agent00	05/12/05 09:13 PM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catridge?	DarylS	04/12/05 08:14 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catridge?	agent00	04/12/05 08:22 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catridge?	DarylS	04/12/05 10:16 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catridge?	Marrakai	04/12/05 01:09 PM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catridge?	DarylS	05/12/05 04:46 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	BillfromOregon	04/12/05 01:13 PM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	DarylS	05/12/05 04:50 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	agent00	05/12/05 05:15 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	BillfromOregon	05/12/05 07:21 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	BlainSmipy	22/12/05 01:39 PM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	Marrakai	22/12/05 02:01 PM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	BlainSmipy	22/12/05 03:34 PM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	Marrakai	22/12/05 05:58 PM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	BlainSmipy	22/12/05 06:06 PM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	DarylS	23/12/05 04:08 PM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	BlainSmipy	16/02/06 10:50 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	DarylS	17/02/06 03:31 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	JohnTheGreek	16/02/06 07:25 PM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	BlainSmipy	17/02/06 01:46 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	JohnTheGreek	17/02/06 08:13 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	BlainSmipy	17/02/06 10:31 AM
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Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	DarylS	14/03/06 08:25 AM
Re: what was the most powerfull bp big game catrid	JohnTheGreek	17/03/06 06:03 AM
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