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Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Littleton, Colorado
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I was curious as to what the largest caliber rifle is? I seem to think I recall a .700 NE. Is there such a beast? Anything bigger?
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Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001
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Go to this site and check out some of these big bore guns being shot. some real funny stuff http://www.accuratereloading.com/videos.html |
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One of the fine old British makers has built a very few modern 10-bore rifles. That's about .775". I read an old article by Jac Weller about his original 8-bore Nitro. Steel barrels, nitro proofs, about .835" cal. He said apparently it was made in a narrow window of time when the makers had learned pretty well how to handle smokeless powder but did not really appreciate how powerful it could be. They shortly learned, and a .450 Nitro is adequate for nearly anything. Of course the .577 and .600 deleted the "nearly." The .700 Nitro is a modern showpiece brought out fairly recently because somebody wanted the biggest. I guess they heard the quotation by the PWH: "Why do you carry that .600?" "Because they don't make a .700." Well, they do now. A 1000 grain bullet at about 1900 fps, as I recall. I have not read any account of one being used to actually hunt with. Like I said, a showpiece. Upwards of $100,000. |
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20mm sniper rifle out of Eastern Europe. There are probably some 20mm anti-tank rifles still floating around too. |
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Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: People's Republik, Komrade
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I would guess the 20mm anti-tank rifles like the Lahti's and the Boys guns.
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I thought the Boys was a .55 caliber.
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what about this new 950 JDJ ? trying to find info on it... any ideas ? |
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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I read in a magazine article a few years ago about a 4 bore rifle. I seem to remember that the bullet was something like 1400-1500 grs. The author stated that the recoil was more like a big push than a sharp snap.
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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Canuck, Isn't that a 4-gauge shotgun loaded with a round or Minie ball? I don't think we in the States can have a smaller-than-10-gauge shotgun...possibly 8 ga....perhaps that's just for hunting purposes, but I believe that it is an Offensive Weapon, like a sawed-off rifle w/12" barrel. Spoilsports. |
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