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Big Bore Video
22 June 2007, 22:09
BuglemintodayBig Bore Video
Enjoy it!
Pistols =
BFR .45-70 (scoped)
(grey) Ruger SRH .454 Casull
S&W .500
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2199039949267290319
"Let me start off with two words: Made in America"
COOL!
I'd really like to try that with one of my S&W 500's.
23 June 2007, 03:14
475GuyHe is shooting one.
Lo do they call to me,
They bid me take my place
among them in the Halls of Valhalla,
Where the brave may live forever.
23 June 2007, 03:15
WhitworthVery cool, Justin!! Looks like fun and it beats shooting paper! How do you find the recoil of your Casull stacks up to the other two handguns? Did you order the 400 grain loads yet?
"Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP
If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming.
Semper Fidelis
"Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time"
23 June 2007, 16:58
bfrshooterWhat is the distance to the targets? The rams look closer then 200 meters or is the camera that good?
I bet there is a lot of repair work to those chickens, the welds must let go fast. We used to break them a lot with the .44's.
Next thing for you guys to try is to take the rams to 500 meters. The guns can do it, believe me. It is more fun then a barrel of monkeys. I have to aim 26 feet high with my 45-70 BFR, at a tree branch. I use cast boolits for it too. The accuracy will amaze you.
I can't hardly hit the things with my BPCR but the revolver will do it.
23 June 2007, 21:01
collegekidandyNice! What loads are you shooting in all of the guns?
Shipping FedEx Ground keeps a small business running.
"I'm not late, I'm early for tomorrow."
23 June 2007, 21:42
BuglemintodayThose rams are at 75m, the video of the .357 shooting the ram is at 200m
The chickens are 25m, turkeys are 50m
The .500 with winchester 400gr Platinum tips, The .45-70 with hornady leverevolutions, and my casull with 300gr Hornadys all kick about equal, my casull has more torque in the wrists though...but I still LOVE IT
The close chickens that were flipping and spinning were hit with the .500 with the leverevolution looking ammo from HOrnady.
a few of the rams were hit with reloads for the 4570 and some of the remington 405gr (I think )bullets
And the casull was using the 300gr xtp's
"Let me start off with two words: Made in America"
23 June 2007, 21:58
WhitworthJustin, PM sent.....
"Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP
If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming.
Semper Fidelis
"Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time"
23 June 2007, 22:20
bfrshooterNow I wish I had a video camera. I'm going to the club soon to shoot 500 meters to test my new BPCR boolit. I am taking the .475 and 45-70 BFR's. I will take my digital camera anyway but can't get the shooting pictures like the video.
Bugle, you just have too much fun!
24 June 2007, 00:02
Buglemintodaylol thanks bfrshooter! If I aint working I am tinkering with hunting stuff and/or guns! My boss and I try to go out to the range at least once a week with pistols...I bet once he gets his .22-250 we will start making more trips out there.
Justin
p.s.- here is a blast picture of a .357 at night
"Let me start off with two words: Made in America"
24 June 2007, 03:42
WhitworthGreat photo, Justin! If you miss the assailant you will nonetheless burn and blind 'em!!

"Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP
If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming.
Semper Fidelis
"Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time"
24 June 2007, 04:23
Me_PlatI am overwrought with excitement
24 June 2007, 04:52
WhitworthWoah, settle down Me_Plat

"Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP
If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming.
Semper Fidelis
"Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time"
24 June 2007, 08:02
Buglemintoday

The guy in the above photos is the owner of the .500 s&w

"Let me start off with two words: Made in America"
24 June 2007, 16:29
bfrshooterNice picture, please get one of the .500 too.
25 June 2007, 01:59
BuglemintodayBelieve it or not, the .500 doesn't put out as much of a flame as the .357...We have some nighttime video of the guns and there isn't near as much of a flame as in that picture
I think a Alaskan in Casull would make for the best in a recoil challenge

"Let me start off with two words: Made in America"
25 June 2007, 04:38
WhitworthI have a 3-inch Lew Horton Model 29 Smith that shoots fireballs at night with full-house .44 mag loads! Burn 'em, blind 'em, and deafen 'em -- hell you don't even have to hit 'em!!

"Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP
If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming.
Semper Fidelis
"Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time"
25 June 2007, 06:30
bfrshooterI made a mold for a semi-wadcutter last week for my Ruger Old Army. My friend dropped off his Pietta 12" barrel Remington to try the boolits out of. I was shooting 32 gr's of Swiss FFFG and found the cylinder gap blast eroded one side of the next boolits nose off. Boolit no. 6 had both sides cut off. I tried 30 to 1 and water dropped WW metal with exactly the same results. The damage was extensive.
Would all of you that shoot cast boolits from your big bores keep track to see if it happens with certain smokeless powders? I never paid any attention before. I found it because one boolit crept out and I had to pull the cylinder to re-seat it. No wonder I get fliers with the cap and ball revolvers and boolits.
The blast in the picture shows the power from the gap.
26 June 2007, 01:06
bfrshooterI found the problem with the Remington cap and ball. The cylinder is too small in diameter and the chambers are too close. The edge of the adjacent chambers are actually under the opening of the forcing cone. There is a direct path for gas to enter the next chambers.