Let's hear your stories featuring this 500 grain cartridge. When I see one of these rounds I am transported to just where I want to be...

Pre WW2 AFRICA!!!!!

By the way, any such rifles on the market?

Jack
There are no flies on the 475 No2.
But in truth, it is no better a killer than any of the rifles in the 450 to 475 group.
I wanted my double rifle to be a .458 bore because of the available bullets in .458.
However 9 years later, knowing what I know now...
Any of the NE's in 450 to 475 are GREAT hunting calibres.
The 450/400's ain't no slouch either.

Jack:

A Jeffery 475#2 underlever snap action is my dream double rifle. Several years ago I had a chance to buy one and went with a Westley Richards instead. Now I'm being punished. Can't find one for love nor money. I have a magazine with a picture of an old time hunter with his Jeffery and 2 huge lions. If I could ever get a good copy of that photo, it would be in my gun room next to the rifle. Oh well, maybe some day!!!

LJS,

Please detail what "snap action" means. I've heard the phrase, but don't know what makes it different from other hinge pin actions. Thanks.

Jack:

Rather than opening with a top lever it uses a lever behind the trigger guard. An over siplification would be something similar to a Ruger #1. If you go to Searcy Enterprises web site and look up an "underlever", you can get a good idea what it looks like.

LJS:

I have a copy of "Big Bore Rifles" edited by Jack Lott from the "Guns and Ammo" action series of 1983. In the chapter of "Classic Double Rifles" is the picture you are referring to, I believe. Page 60.

Perhaps you could contact Petersen Publishing company in Los Angeles and see if they can pull it out of their archives.

Good Luck.

RCG

I confess, I have totally fallen into a state of awe regarding this cartridge.

I know of course that the following would require reregulation of the barrels.

I expect to be told these .458 - .488'S kill equally and there's no practical reason to do the following.

I guess DR lovers don't think much about the word "PRACTICAL".

Typically, if a Chapuis, Merkle, Kreighoff, Heym is built in .470 NE caliber, structurally is there enough barrel mass to rebore, rechamber to this larger caliber?

Jack,

There is what looks to be a decent one at Westley Richards in Montana. It's a Watson Brothers that they are asking $19,500 for. Might be a bit heavy at 12.4lbs.

Jim

Thanks Friend, I'll have a look!

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Originally posted by BigFiveJack:
Typically, if a Chapuis, Merkle, Kreighoff, Heym is built in .470 NE caliber, structurally is there enough barrel mass to rebore, rechamber to this larger caliber?

Probably so, but it would be a huge, costly PITA.

It's a good cartridge. If you're enamored with it, thats a good enough reason try one. The Jeffery rifles in this caliber are workhorses. The .475s are usually heavier than .450s or .470s, but they're also surprisingly pleasant to shoot.
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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

I am in the process of building, or should I say getting togther the materials to build a .475 # 2 at present. N.E. 450#2 is right in what he said all the 450s and the .475, 470 ans such are in the same catigory. One pluss with the 450#2 and the 475#2 is that they are very low pressure so your brass will last a very long time. Ammo can be hard to find for any of these cartridges but practicality is not a strong suite with double rifle fans, they like what they like and that is that! I have a .450#2 I built and love it!!! I think I will hate to part with this 475 but I am building it for a customer who loves the cartridge.