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Hard to find Ammo (pics added) #6808387
03/19/20 11:29 AM 03/19/20 11:29 AM
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Just got in. 500 Express 3.25” black powder from Buffalo Arms. Going in an Army/Navy double rifle. Big Medicine.
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Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808390
03/19/20 11:30 AM 03/19/20 11:30 AM
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Ground hog time?

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Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808392
03/19/20 11:31 AM 03/19/20 11:31 AM
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Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808404
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Maybe! I have shot a ground hog with a 458 win mag. Summer before I went to Africa I shot around 10 ground hogs with 375 H&H, oddly enough never used it on my trip.

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Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808410
03/19/20 11:43 AM 03/19/20 11:43 AM
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Good Squirrel round, just shoot the tree down and let the dog catch it grin
Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808412
03/19/20 11:44 AM 03/19/20 11:44 AM
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Heap big medicine.
Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808427
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If you dont mind me asking, what did that box of 20 rounds cost?

When life gets me down..... you know hunting/trapping season is closed.
Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808429
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You must have small hands wink.. what weigh bullets and velocity?
Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: PineDoggin] #6808432
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Originally Posted by PineDoggin
Good Squirrel round, just shoot the tree down and let the dog catch it grin

Lol......good one !!!!!

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Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808435
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Heap big cost! I got 40 rounds for $317 delivered. Been looking for a couple years. Found some Knyoch nitro for black a couple months ago, 10 rounds. Certainly will be picking up brass. Plan on deer hunting this fall with it.

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Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: Providence Farm] #6808437
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Originally Posted by Providence Farm
You must have small hands wink.. what weigh bullets and velocity?

It's pretty much a stretched .22 mag but less recoil crazy
Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808440
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440 grains at 1500-1600 fps. This is a pre cursor to the 500 nitro express. I believe my rifle was made in the early 1890’s.

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Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808445
03/19/20 11:59 AM 03/19/20 11:59 AM
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I've always wanted to own a vintage British double rifle but have never had that kind of disposable cash. I just saw .700 Nitro Express rounds going for $49 each.

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Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808450
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That 700 is an absolute monster. There’s only a handful of them in the world.

I scour the gun auctions, the Army/Navy had a firing pin issue in one of the barrels. Went way cheap, had it fixed for $130.

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Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808461
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Originally Posted by tomahawker
That 700 is an absolute monster. There’s only a handful of them in the world.

I scour the gun auctions, the Army/Navy had a firing pin issue in one of the barrels. Went way cheap, had it fixed for $130.



Wouldn't they be considered a destructive device since they are over .50 cal and be NFA regulated? Or would the age make that a moot point.


Sounds like hunting with a brass cartridge muzzleloader. I would definitely be reloading and casting my own bullets. What an awsum rifle.
Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808464
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Just one of those thing you must have at one point in your life!

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Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: Getting There] #6808476
03/19/20 12:25 PM 03/19/20 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Getting There
Just one of those thing you must have at one point in your life!


I'm truly jealous.

If you head shoot squirrels you should be ok. I shot one in the neck with a .50 round ball( was aiming at the head it moved I think). I was 16 or so and it was all I had to hunt with at the time.

Its head looked like a pez dispenser but meat was unharmed. In your case that would be the most expensive squirrel meat ever.
Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808481
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The 700 is a fairly recent invention.The 600 was the biggest and commercially produced starting circa early 1900’s. Well some rich guy wanted to have THE biggest and pay a mansions worth of money for the first and only 700. I’m thinking in the late 1980’s, not sure bout that. There are more out there now. There seem to be an exemption of some kind for big bore hunting rifles.

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Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808487
03/19/20 12:36 PM 03/19/20 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by tomahawker
The 700 is a fairly recent invention.The 600 was the biggest and commercially produced starting circa early 1900’s. Well some rich guy wanted to have THE biggest and pay a mansions worth of money for the first and only 700. I’m thinking in the late 1980’s, not sure bout that. There are more out there now. There seem to be an exemption of some kind for big bore hunting rifles.


Holland & Holland came out with it a few years back. They initially sold for around two hundred grand if my memory serves. Rounds were a hundred bucks a pop. I like vintage guns and would settle for a .470.
Re: Hard to find Ammo [Re: tomahawker] #6808492
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Could we possibly see a picture of the rifle?
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