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hoppdoc
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Re: New Steel vs Old steel
25/05/07 10:27 AM

Each to his own.

The recoil of a 9 pound 450/400 shooting a 400gr bullet at 2150 is 50 ft pounds at 18 fps(?felt more as a heavy push).With a 10 pnd gun (scope added)this falls to 40pnds.Should this be a problem for most big bore shooters at the moment of truth? My 500NE at 10.25 pnds generates 85 ft pnds at 23 ft/sec and it seems quite managable.

If a Double gun with stronger modern steels could tolerate a diet of hotter loads safely a 450/400 with a 400gr at 2250 the recoil would increase back to 50 pnds with a scoped 10 pound gun and make the gun more flexible at distance.Compare that to a 10 pound 416 Rigby bolt with a 400 @ 2400-60 ft pounds at 19fps.

The sad fact is that when we go to africa we are not going to shoot our rifles as much as earlier hunters.Again I am ignorant about Doubles but feel that a 450/400 9 pound Double that swings and points great would be a joy to hunt with.Indeed I wouldn't mind a quick pointing 8.5 pound quality rifle!!

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New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	19/05/07 01:07 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	mehulkamdar	19/05/07 01:17 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	mickey	19/05/07 04:25 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	mehulkamdar	22/05/07 04:38 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	19/05/07 07:07 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	dnovo	19/05/07 09:09 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	AzGuy	19/05/07 11:59 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Marrakai	21/05/07 01:39 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	400NitroExpress	23/05/07 02:22 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	23/05/07 11:17 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	400NitroExpress	24/05/07 03:06 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	24/05/07 06:53 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	bonanza	24/05/07 07:22 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	400NitroExpress	24/05/07 06:01 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Grizzly	24/05/07 08:02 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Will	24/05/07 08:46 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	400NitroExpress	24/05/07 06:15 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Will	25/05/07 12:33 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	mehulkamdar	25/05/07 07:07 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Will	25/05/07 08:30 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Grizzly	24/05/07 12:11 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	CptCurl	24/05/07 11:57 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	400NitroExpress	25/05/07 01:11 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	25/05/07 10:27 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	bonanza	25/05/07 03:26 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Chasseur	24/05/07 12:27 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	bonanza	23/05/07 10:17 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	24/05/07 02:37 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	AzGuy	21/05/07 02:05 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	Marrakai	22/05/07 01:03 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	NE450No2	22/05/07 04:08 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	hoppdoc	19/05/07 11:22 PM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	mehulkamdar	23/05/07 01:28 AM
Re: New Steel vs Old steel	empirevr	19/05/07 09:49 PM

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