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This looks to me to be a black powder muzzel loader DR. Anyone care to take a guess of the caliber? (I have no idea what it is, but it looks massive!)  577NitroExpress Double Rifle Shooters Society Francotte .470 Nitro Express  If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming... | ||
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comparing it to one I recently saw and handled, a 4 bore DR. "...Them, they were Giants!" J.A. Hunter describing the early explorers and settlers of East Africa hunting is not about the killing but about the chase of the hunt.... Ortega Y Gasset | |||
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Interesting photo. One would certainly want a couple of trustworthy gunbearers to carry that and the backup rifle. 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 | |||
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my guess is a 4 bore ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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Watched the end of a show on TV a few weeks ago the guy had just taken an elephant with a muzzle loader. It was a 58calb using solids they had turned on a lathe. I have tried to catch the show again but havent found it yet. Dean ibelieve this is the same kill I watched on tv at this link. video of kill | |||
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I wonder how he transported the black powder. | |||
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Held a 8 bore at the Vintager's shoot in September...It is double the size.... Definately .... 4 bore Mike | |||
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Technically, I think you are supposed to source powder and percussion caps locally and not transport them in your luggage. ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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I've heard of guys taking loaded shells full of black powder. Then just pulling them apart at the destination. If you took a few boxes of shot shells with nothing but BP in them, you could probably take enough. (would static charges on the hulls be an issue?) Not sure about the caps. -Steve --------  www.zonedar.com If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning DRSS C&H 475 NE -------- | |||
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Who cares how he got the powder there. Maybe used something else? Most importantly he used that monstor and lived long enough to have his picture taken!  Damn! That's a big one!Rusty We Band of Brothers! 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.” | |||
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Did anyone find out who made that Double Rifle?Also what caliber is it?And last what show was it on? | |||
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he's my neighbor...I see him testing his bullets at the range occasionally. I will run over to the shop tomorrow and have my picture taken with the rifle...then get Boomie to post it for y'all...ah fame!! Rich NRA Life Member DRSS | |||
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IdahoSharpshooter, please get us any info available on it. Cost, date made, maker, bl length,weight, loads used,bore diameter. Hell, I don't want much do I ??? These guns just make me drool ALOT!! And your pictures will be greatly appreciated by alot more than just me, I'm sure. THANKS | |||
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I think a muzzle loader SxS 4 Bore will be my SECOND double, NOT THAT I HAVE THE FIRST YET. Bring on all possible details PLEASE!!! Jack OH GOD! {Seriously, we need the help.} | |||
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These rifles appear in the hands of Bradley and Amy Martin on the cover of Calitz's 2005 brochure. No words as to the rifles. | |||
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You get the powder in by loading a wad on top of a full case of black powder in shot shells, and take a shotgun with you so the shot shells will be importable. You then break the shot shells down in camp, and put the powder in a large container or Horn, and the bullets in your possibles bag. Four or five boxes of 12 ga shot shells filled with BP will shoot a lot of game, and it is light so you can take a lot of shot shell full of nothing but BP in in your ammo weight limit! ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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has anyone thought to e mail john cailitz with the questions about the rifle ?? idaho sharpshooter - did you get any pics of the rifle and details. we are waiting !! just a guess --- it is a ken owen built rifle - i know he built double 4 bore breechloaders, single 4 bore muzzloaders... and why not a double muzzleloader ? TOMO577 DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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Idaho Sharpshooter, Don't be teasing us about more pictures!! We need a big gun fix. I will give you the benefit of the doubt, and say he is on vacation over the holidays. But when he gets back, PLEASE get some info and photos posted. thanks | |||
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