I have 505 Gibbs and 500NE 3 1/4".
Have a Searcy 577 in the works, unsure when that will be finished.

Cheers.

May I Join.....
50 Alaskan Revolvers and Levers
50/110 same
500 WEATHERBY
500 NE
500 JEFFERY
50 BMG
505 GIBBS
577 NE
585 NYATI
600 AHR
600 NE
700 AHR
700 HH
8 BORE
7 BORE
4 BORE
(Owned and Many I had multiples of....)

.500 S&W, .500 NE and the 50 BMG

My .50+ collection:

1. 8 Bore
2. .600 Overkill.
3. .577 NE 3".
4. .500 Jeffery.
5. .505 Gibbs.
6. S&W .500 Magnum.

Cheers, Chip.

I own a 505 Gibbs. It's the only 500 I have ever shot, other than a 50 BMG that a buddy of mine let me shoot.

Update from 2012:

I am the owner and shooter of a 500 AccRel Nyati.

The rifle is on its second barrel and third stock. The first barrel used a 1.25" freebore which was determined to be too long for brass bullets, maybe copper too. The second barrel uses a 0.255" freebore and shoots nice sub-MOA groups with both the tipped 360 grain CEB lever-raptor and also the 450 grain GSC hollow point.
The current stock appears stable and solid and uses a barrel recoil lug against a bedded all thread in the forearm and a cross bolt and additional all thread in the main action recoil area plus another cross bolt and a longitudinal all thread in the wrist. The result is quite nice and makes a Ruger Hawkeye plus Boyd's laminate stock into a reasonably light-carrying thumper.
Shoots nice.

I did add an 8-oz recoil reducer in the butt in order to better balance the barrel in the rather lightweight setup.

I guess I'm kind of a virgin compared with the experience of you guys. A 577 BPE.

Dave

500 Linebaugh
Two .54 caliber muzzleloaders

500 N.E.

My first .50 caliber was in a rifle I had made with a cartridge I designed myself in the late 1960's, had built and took to Africa, where I used it to take a black rhino, three elephants and five Cape buffalo. It duplicated .500 Nitro Express ballistics in a rimless belted cartridge which fit a standard length action.



Since then, I have acquired a .505 Gibbs and a .500 Jeffry.

577 bpe

500 BPE
500 NE
600NE
8 BORE
4 BORE

quote:

Originally posted by xausa:
My first .50 caliber was in a rifle I had made with a cartridge I designed myself in the late 1960's, had built and took to Africa, where I used it to take a black rhino, three elephants and five Cape buffalo. It duplicated .500 Nitro Express ballistics in a rimless belted cartridge which fit a standard length action.



Since then, I have acquired a .505 Gibbs and a .500 Jeffry.

Which do you like better?

Does the 500ne count bore diameter.510.

only 600 overkill

quote:

Originally posted by chuck375:
Which do you like better?

My .505 SRE is the only one I have actually hunted in Africa with, and at age 78, am unlikely to give the other two a try, so it gets the nod. I think it would anyway, because it performs anything the other two would do in a smaller, more modern package. Here is the original drawing I made of the cartridge:

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quote:

Originally posted by xausa:

quote:

Originally posted by chuck375:
Which do you like better?

My .505 SRE is the only one I have actually hunted in Africa with, and at age 78, am unlikely to give the other two a try, so it gets the nod. I think it would anyway, because it performs anything the other two would do in a smaller, more modern package. Here is the original drawing I made of the cartridge:

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that's a nice cartridge.

"rigby" diameter, standard-length action, .5" bore. It is a belted cousin to the 500AccRelNyati.

.500 A-Square on a CZ 550, 22.5" Pac-Nor 1-12 twist, NECG ghost ring and barrel band front, Leupold 2.5 scout scope, trim for caliber at 9.5#......BFR .500 S&W with Ultra Dot shooting some mean, long 2.4"- 2.6" oal 500 gr loads in that big cyl......4" S&W 500

quote:

Originally posted by SAFARIKID:
May I Join.....
50 Alaskan Revolvers and Levers
50/110 same
500 WEATHERBY
500 NE
500 JEFFERY
50 BMG
505 GIBBS
577 NE
585 NYATI
600 AHR
600 NE
700 AHR
700 HH
8 BORE
7 BORE
4 BORE
(Owned and Many I had multiples of....)

Tom, you could outfit a hunting club for both Jurassic World and Skull Island and still have a battery for yourself! You're definitely the safari kid!

I've got the following -

500 BPE William Evans double
500 Jeffery Sako 85
50-110WCF Ruger #1
585 Nyati - Montana PH custom
GP Greener rifled 20 gauge.
GP Greener rifled 12 gauge.
And a 600 Overkill coming from AHR as we speak.

DC

50 cal muzzle loader
54 cal muzzle loader pistol
58 cal muzzle loader
50-90 Sharps
50-110 WCF
500 Nitro
505 Gibbs
577 Nitro
8 Bore

The big bore forum seems to have slipped lately. All of the threads seem to center on 375-416-458 rifles, ie. the beginner big bores. Let’s resurrect this 20-year-old topic and breathe some life back into the BIG BORE forum! What 0.500”+ rifle projects have you been working on?

I currently have:

505 Gibbs Bolt
577 3” Single Shot
7-bore Blunderbuss
500 Linebaugh revolver

I built my 577 nitro 3” to serve as a light nitro rifle. I planned for 650gr Woodleigh or hard cast bullets at 1950fps. I proofed the gun with full nitro 750gr rounds. In working up my loads, I got the 650gr woodleighs and Hawks going over 2100fps. I look forward to owning and hunting with a 577 double rifle of some description in the next year or two. If I end up building it myself, I will regulate it for 650gr Woodleigh softs and 600-650gr monolithic solids at 2150fps.

In the works:

8-bore Jones underlever double rifle
8-bore Jones underlever single shot rifle
500 Nitro Double rifle
50 WSM single shot bolt action suppressed

A couple of years ago, I picked up a London proofed Jones underlever 8-bore double shotgun at auction. The gun is with Aaron Little now having a rifled barrel set made for it. The barrels were custom made with a 0.850” groove diameter and a 0.840” bore diameter. Eleven lands and grooves and one turn in 60 inches. It will be regulated with a 1335gr cast bullet from a custom mold at 1350fps. With smokeless powder, that load will generate less than 17kpsi chamber pressure.

I am building the single shot myself. It will fire the same load as the double but should be more flexible in testing out different projectiles. I am building the action over-sized and I might build a second barrel in 4-bore as a smooth bore for round ball loads and huge charges of buckshot and birdshot, just for fun.



RC

Shot, hunted and took game with:

500 Nitro Express
577 Nitro Express
585 AHR
600 Overkill
600 Nitro Express

Maybe a separate category for us Macho Macho Men?
I have a thing for 458s (rabbits) but the big 50's (and up) is where the Fun Begin's!
500NE,500Jeff,505Gibb's,577NE,585Nyati,600NE,600Ok,700Ok,700NE,8Bore Tolly,7Bore Greener,4Bore Owen
I have owned and shot AND Hunted Africa or Alaska with many of these ...
(In the works now is ANOTHER(#7) Custom .600Ok Bolt "Black Death" will be ready soon..All Weather Synthetic and Cerakoted for a Brown Bear Hunt..Short and Lightweight

quote:

Originally posted by SAFARIKID:
Maybe a separate category for us Macho Macho Men?
I have a thing for 458s (rabbits) but the big 50's (and up) is where the Fun Begin's!
500NE,500Jeff,505Gibb's,577NE,585Nyati,600NE,600Ok,700Ok,700NE,8Bore Tolly,7Bore Greener,4Bore Owen
I have owned and shot AND Hunted Africa or Alaska with many of these ...
(In the works now is ANOTHER(#7) Custom .600Ok Bolt "Black Death" will be ready soon..All Weather Synthetic and Cerakoted for a Brown Bear Hunt..Short and Lightweight

Man, a 600OK mountain rifle! What does lightweight mean in this instance? What barrel length?

If you are interested, I have a super light McGowan 0.505 barrel blank for sale, cheap! I figure you might need a light rifle for caribou.

RC

Haha! Should come in 8 1/2 pds but a dang scope adds another 3/4 pound with rings! May do a red dot?
16" barrel...
Also a 458 in the works 16" hoping for 6 pounds..
Thank for the Offer on the barrel but Caribou need a 600..They are Tough

quote:

Haha! Should come in 8 1/2 pds but a dang scope adds another 3/4 pound with rings! May do a red dot?
16" barrel... hilbily
Also a 458 in the works 16" hoping for 6 pounds..

Dr Phil...Dr Phil! Emergency!!!!

Hunted cape buffalo with .577NE and 50-110 Win. Brian

Does a Big Horn Armory 500 S&W count? I've killed 4 brown bears with it..

I'll play:

Wilkinson 577 Snider howdah pistol
Marlin 1895 50 Alaskan
Purdey 577/500 #2
Desert Tech SRS 510 Whisper
Tolley 10 bore DR
Bland 7 bore DR
Bland 4 bore single

quote:

Originally posted by Omnivorous_Bob:
I'll play:

Wilkinson 577 Snider howdah pistol
Marlin 1895 50 Alaskan
Purdey 577/500 #2
Desert Tech SRS 510 Whisper
Tolley 10 bore DR
Bland 7 bore DR
Bland 4 bore single

Bob, I like your style! I would love to have a howdah pistol!

500 Jeffrey

And this post started in March 2002

Thanks Saeed for a great site to get away!

I guess I missed this train the last couple of times it passed through town.

But I always get on and get off at the same stop, no matter when.

.500 A-Square!

It’s the best of the fifties and bigger, at least for hunting, which is all I do with mine.

Taking my big fifty to Botswana in a couple of weeks after Cape buffalo.

It paralyzes them.

quote:

Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
I guess I missed this train the last couple of times it passed through town.

But I always get on and get off at the same stop, no matter when and where.

.500 A-Square!

It’s the best of the fifties and bigger, at least for hunting, which is all I do with mine.

Taking my big fifty to Botswana in a couple of weeks after Cape buffalo.

It paralyzes them.

That cartridge sounds pretty good to me.

Personally, I built a 500 Accurate Reloading (Nyati) designed by Jefeoso on this forum.
It is a fantastic cartridge that can be fit into a normal Ruger M77 Hawkeye. A Rigby case cut down to 2.65" to fit in the Hawkeye. That means carrying 500 Jeffrey ballistics in a 8.5-lb rifle.

I am with Robinson 500 A Square. A 570 grain Barnes X hurts a buffalo QUICK!

uhm, me? i've shot a couple 500+

quote:

Originally posted by jeffeosso:
uhm, me? i've shot a couple 500+

Yeah, Jeff. You have shot a few over 50. I want to hear about some of your exploits. Specifically, the 550s and 577s!

RC

I have a few & like Wildcatter I have had a C&H 8 bore action waiting to get rifle barrels added for over 10 years !

.50 Revolver Adams- needs rebuild
.577 Revolver Webley Break Open
.577 Revolver Solid Frame
.510 WSM Tikka
.577 Snider Sporter
.577 Snider Greener Double
.577 2 3/4 Bland Double
.14 Bore ML
12 Bore 3in Tolley Double Rifle
8 Bore Tolley
8 Bore C&H pending Double Rifle

Also a .510 barrel to go on a Baikal Shotgun mono bloc to be .500 Linebaugh or .50 Alaskan.

Once had a .500NE 3 1/4in on a H&R action & that was a hard hitter ....at both ends !

.500 MDM
.500 NE

.500 MDM has been to Africa and has taken elephants. .500 NE is going in 3 weeks for elephant and cape buffalo.

I sold my 600 Overkill last year and bought a 500J. Somewhere in the last few years I acquired a 50 B&M SuperShort.