Here's the picture and the link. Something's very wrong with this.


http://www.pfeifer-waffen.at/cms/html/index.php?module=...&func=display&pid=15

One word: Ouch

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Originally posted by Whitworth:
One word: Ouch

The price is as big as the ouch! Euro 13.840,-!!!

Not to mention the size and weight; 6 kg!

Erik -- don't forget the cost of ammunition as well!

it cost ca 50 dollars over here , i thought wrong first, the mind controlled its path in on the price of the .700 NE which cost 150 dollars.

Nice back up plan for bailling a person out of a bad and close up situation!

I have a bunch of .600Kynoch for sale in .600NE on gunsamerica.com or gunbroker.com Cheap!

At 12 1/2 lbs, it might as well be a rifle!

I heard there was a year and a half wait and the cost was over 18,000 dollars. RIDICULOUS

They should name that abberation the 600 Edsel.

EVER HEAR OF THE HOWDAH PISTOLS ?
TIGER HUNTING IN INDIA BY THE VISITING BRITISH NOBILITY & GENTLEMEN WAS MOSTLY DONE ON THE BACK OF AN ELEPHANT IN A "HOWDAH BASKET". THE BEATERS DROVE THE TIGERS TOWARD THE LINE OF ELEPHANTS SO THE SPORTSMEN (?) COULD SHOOT THEM.

OCCASIONALLY A TIGER WOULD GET SO MAD HE WOULD JUMP UP ONTO THE ELEPHANT AND HAVE A GO AT THE MEN IN THE BASKET. TO PROTECT THEMSELVES THE BASKET HAD A HOLSTER WITH A HOWDA PISTOL IN IT. THIS WAS A DOUBLE BARREL PISTOL USUALLY OF 12 GA BUT OCCASIONALLY IN 577 (BPE MOSTLY).

I SERIOUSLY WONDER WHO GOT HURT THE MOST, THE SHOOTER OR THE TIGER ? OCCASIONALLY A HOWDAH PISTOL WILL TURN UP AT A GUNSHOW. ADMIRE IT IF YOU GET A CHANCE, AND ALSO THE MEN WHO HAD THE BALLS TO SHOOT IT !

Well, just looking @ that pic makes me replay that vid going around the internet of those guys shooting another 600 NE revolver(or was it a TC?) @ the range, and nobody was even able to hold on to the thing. Ugh.

Actually the owner shot it with no problems as far as it flying out of his grip, but the range master shot it and that's when it hit him. It was a TC.

Tom
howdah pistols aren't full house NE rounds... generally front stuffers, or things like 577/450, no the 557 2 3/4. The howdah carbines, however, COULD be full house loads...

but, the howdah is designed to shoot the riger OUT of the howdah, when he tries to crawl up in the howdah basket with you... basically powder burn range.

jeffe

I am honored to call Lee Jurras a friend. After he sold Super-Vel he got heavily into Contenders, and making howdah pistols on their frames. As I recall he built several large caliber by cutting down BELL .500" NE brass to 2.033" length, and bottlenecking it to take 500gr bullets. Had to be a thin jacket to work at his velocities. Donnellys' book says 54.5gr of IMR 3031 but no MV is listed. The 500 Jurras.

Rich

Most od the old Hodah pistols were double barrel hammer back action clip actioned, or jones lever actioned pistols. The most common chambering was 577 snider,or 577 snider carbine or 58 Berdan, and 58 berdan carbine black powder cartridges, with pure lead hollowbased bullets! The barrels were generally in the 10" to 12" in length, and were meant to be fired a target only far enough away to avoid biteing the barrels! These pistols have begun to have a collector's following, and prices are jumping up steadily. Most are rusty hulks, and not usefull for anything other than to collect!

I don't know whay some one doesn't make some new ones today, for big pistol rounds like the "45-70"
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You can have almost all the fun with a cintender chambered for 50-70-550gr loads,

Rich

re:howdah pistols

i have seen a couple of them over the years and mac's description is correct. except they did make some in shotgun gauges too. (breechloaders)

i was going to buy a 12 bore one at the las vegas show several years ago but checked with the batf who had a booth at the show. in shotgun gauges they would have to have been previously registered because batf classifies them as a short barrel shotgun.

i have no idea what their response would be to a rifle caliber.... probably that it was a short barreled rifle ?