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Boswell 450/400
15 June 2005, 06:35
WVFredBoswell 450/400
I picked up a Charles Boswell 450/400 3 1/4".It has a .408" bore.Any of you gentlemen have any brass and bullets for sale?Huntingtons had some brass on sale but they are out of it now.Suggestions?
Thanks WVFRED
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Bullets are easy to come by.
Midwayusa, Woodleigh .408 bullets Hawk BulletsBe sure that you order the .408, because they do offer the .411 bullets.
The Hawks a softer and will require less powder to achieve the required velocity.
I would reccomend use use RL-15 and Dacron filler for your loads.
I'm not sure about brass. If you can find some BeLL by Mast around, buy em up.
Rusty
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16 June 2005, 05:48
WVFredThanks Rusty,
Anyone know where any Bell brass can be found?
Fred
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Fred,
Until it turns up, you can get some 450 NE 3-1/4" brass and neck it down and trim it. That is of course the origin of the 450/400 NE 3-1/4". They have the same 0.040" "thin rim."
I just ordered some Horneber .450 NE 3-1/4" from Huntington's. They have that. It ain't cheap, something over $50 for 20 pieces, but it is Horneber, good as it gets. Surely there must be some Horneber .450/.400 NE 3-1/4" in the pipeline somewhere.
16 June 2005, 19:35
500grainsFred,
Any pics of the Boswell for us?
Did you take this double in trade on your .500 Jeff?
17 June 2005, 01:51
WVFred500grains,
Good guess...I no longer have a 500 jeffery and I'm minus a couple more guns....but I have my first double rifle.Here are a couple pics.
Fred
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17 June 2005, 01:53
WVFred
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17 June 2005, 09:31
Frank MartinezGorgeous!
Frank
17 June 2005, 21:44
WVFredThanks Frank,
I hope to shoot it in the next week or so.
Thanks Fred
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17 June 2005, 21:48
tiggertateGlad you were able to sell the 500 but what happened to the new garage money
! Ain't it funny how that goes?
"Experience" is the only class you take where the exam comes before the lesson.
17 June 2005, 21:58
WVFredHarry this one will be for sale too.
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18 June 2005, 21:36
500grainsFred,
Thanks for the pics. Nice rifle! Please post a target when you shoot it.
Fred,
Could you please contact me directly
rkmojo@aol.comBeautiful rifle!
Rusty
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DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member
"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
20 June 2005, 19:35
577NitroExpressNice looking double! When was it made and do you have a history on it?
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If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming... 21 June 2005, 06:53
WVFred577,
I got it from a friend and he got it from a dealer so I really don't know much about it.
Fred
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