Hard to find Ammo (pics added)

Just got in. 500 Express 3.25” black powder from Buffalo Arms. Going in an Army/Navy double rifle. Big Medicine.

Ground hog time?

Beautiful

Umgawah!

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.

Good Squirrel round, just shoot the tree down and let the dog catch it

Heap big medicine.

If you dont mind me asking, what did that box of 20 rounds cost?

You must have small hands .. what weigh bullets and velocity?

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

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.

It's pretty much a stretched .22 mag but less recoil

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Could we possibly see a picture of the rifle?

Would love too, gonna be a minute

while that is particularily hard ammo to find



it is all hard ammo to find , right now.

as soon as the TP was out the bullets and hanguns had a run

I was surprised to find our Walmart still had quite a bit of .22 ammo on hand. I bought another brick.

Those rounds are huge! Hopefully the rifle that fires them weighs about 12 pounds with a twin sized mattress recoil pad!

Chris

This reminds me so much of this old vid clip. Not sure what they are shooting , rumor is it is .500 nitro or .700 nitro.



Definitely a lot of people in this video that should not be shooting something that big , but interesting to watch for sure.

I was at the local gun shop 30 minutes after it opened Tuesday there were already 7 trucks in the lot 2 guys walking out with new guns when I walked in , 5 more in the store making piles on the counter to check out and buy their gun

things were going to empty quickly at that pace , the owner said he was closing after Saturday not sure he will have anything left on the shelf by then.

they are very limited hours Sunday and closed Monday so Tuesday was really the first time to go for the week.

seeing a lot of pictures of gander outdoors and other stores with bare ammo shelves on face book.

I think I can make it a few months on what I have but another brick or small pistol primers would be kinda nice. I don't have the free time many seem to have to assemble ammo. the wife and I are still working full time at this point although starting today she locks her self in the building and no foot traffic only calls she works for a local farm co-op dispatching fuel trucks and taking orders. everyone still needs their LP and Diesel.


I haven't been out at all since to see what any place has in person . I will just stay in I think

The video is a 577 T-Rex I believe.

Yesterday the farm supply store had a full stock of ammo, and they have a good selection. I have 7000 rounds of .22 so I think I'm good for now. Have reloaded everything else I need I guess.

That is a beauty! ^^^^^

Chris

Beautiful rifle, is that Bastogne Walnut?

Thanks all, I have no idea on stock wood.

Man that's a beauty for sure!

I can't make out the maker.

Army and Navy

British? London or Birmingham? If so, I hate you.

I would hunt with that every chance I got in relatively nice weather anyway. I prefer my old doubles for rabbit and quail. A rifle that fine would be icing on the cake

They were a London firm.

I do hate you. Awesome rifle. I had a W.J. Jeffery & Co. 28 gauge double some years ago. Circa 1930 or so. It weighed just five pounds and with 25 inch barrels, I couldn't hit a thing with it. Beautiful gun to behold, though.

Jeffrey 28? Man, don’t see many of those. I’ve never even shot a 28.

Thanks for posting those pics, beautiful!