STUBBY PLUNKS SOME MEAT

12 February 2008, 03:44

This might be an idea for a DRSS shoot someday where you can take home some good meat.

I posted the story of my stubby 450/400 on American Big Game forum but the short of it is that they are really a lot of fun with your double and you don't have to spend a fortune to do it - especially when you factor in the meat you get.

ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS

Into my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

A. E. Housman

12 February 2008, 03:49

maddenwh

Great buff...nothing better than hunting them, if only they had the same attitude as their african brethren... would make it more interesting.

How long are the barrels on your gun? Thanks.

12 February 2008, 04:14

jeffeosso

How long are those barrels?
jeffe

12 February 2008, 04:37

maddenwh

quote:
Originally posted by jeffeosso:
How long are those barrels?
jeffe

Just read his report. They are 19 inches long. I wonder what velocity he gets out of them.

12 February 2008, 04:47

Jim Manion

Versitile.

You can put a bison in the freezer and use it to hold up a liquor store!

12 February 2008, 05:19

Palmer

All your comments true and deserved.

I figure that with the price of gas as it is now - sooner or later - stagecoaches will be back and I can get a job as a guard.

I don't know how the barrels got that way and I don't know the velocity. I intend to check it some day but have not got around to it. JJ speculates that someone must have run over the barrels out in the bush when it was leaning up against a Land Rover which later moved and backed over them.

I dream that some tiger hunter in India cut them off for more practical reasons.

I have killed two cape buff with it and it seems to work whatever the velocity is.

When I bought it the barrels were already that long. I took it to JJ to check over and he re-regulated it. He shot a couple 1.5 inch groups with it and helped me find a load that worked with Woodleighs.

I would not recommend this barrel length and in fact intend to have JJ make a new set of barrels for it.

Nevertheless, it will put a bullet in the bulls eye at 50 yds. and if I ever had to go back into the dark after a wounded leopard again it is the rifle I would like to have in my hands.

12 February 2008, 05:42

maddenwh

It's a beautiful rifle. The short barrels serve to give it character. If it still works on cape buff, why fix it? Another point for 450/400'ers that the 400 is ample medicine for anything.

12 February 2008, 06:34

jeffeosso

Okay, well, that's kinda cool.. i am going to be making my 45-120 about 23" and change... sp, not so bad, for either
jeffe

12 February 2008, 12:08

Rusty

Congrats, Allen! Well done, sir!

Rusty
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