When I got
my hands on my first double, I was just crazy drunk with excitement. Not a week has gone by that I have not spent some of it with the double, and I love holding it yet.
My benefactor, the man who took me to Africa and provided me with the double, has long known that I lust after a double in 500 nitro, but in the beginning he was only able to get the 45-70 which indeed pleased me mightily.
Recently, on doing some more work for the same company, he was able to acquire a 500 nitro, which he let me shoot Saturday and shipped it to me yesterday and it is on my lap as I type. This is what the Brown Truck of Goodness delievered to my local FFL at around noon.
It’s an ejector 500 with an extra set of barrels in 45-70.
I have about broken my face grinning. And when I shot it Saturday, it just about yanked the gun clean out of my hands the first time. I gripped tighter and enjoyed the recoil therapy.
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I am insanely jealous. I also have an unnatural love for big bore doubles though I fear my general tight fistedness will never allow me to make such a purchase. Congratulations!!
Oh, wow.
KEWL!!!!!!
Such a lovely piece of work!!!
I expect minute details…
YOF
I am very happy for you!
Another double!
YeeHaawwwww!!!
Recoil therapy – that’s a good one. I haven’t had 50 caliber therapy, but I’ve enjoyed plenty of the 45 caliber variety (.458 Win mag and .460 G&A).
That is outstanding! Congrats!!!
Good looking gun there Og.
That one should be safe from the enviro nannies.
NICE!
Drool!
Looks like you may have acquired the 500 Nitro Double just in the nick of time…
http://rt.com/news/mammoth-blood-ice-siberia-908/
Color me green with envy! Wear well!
Congratulations. Looks awesome. Happy shooting.
Please don’t take this personally but I hate your guts.
Green with envy and wish you many hours of recoil therapy.
I pity the stray T. Rex that wanders into your neighborhood.
Yoooouuuu bastard.
575 grains @ 2150 ? OUCH !
Yeah. Innit great?
Oh, pretty!
Enjoy it Og. Do you have plans to hunt with it against something worthy of it?
Indeed. If all goes well I intend to try to shoot a cape this fall.
Woolly Mammoth, my arse. That’s the perfect caliber with which to render the Michealeous Moorelius, extinct!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Only if you shoot him in the brain, which requires jamming the gun up his ass. I’m not gonna do that to this rifle.
I can only assume that a reverent hush fell across the entire gun shop when the case was opened and that beauty was revealed.
And I hope Mrs. Og is understanding about you bringing it to bed.
BGM
She slept on the couch last night.
Not because of the rifle, mind you. It was because our pansy-ass dog freaks out in thunderstorms.
But it was convenient.
I think I may call it George.
And yes, the whole gunstore sort of hushed when I opened the case.
that’s a beauty!
Holy Toledo.
Whattagun.
I need to come up and visit.
There’s a local chap I’ve been introduced to who also collects fine double rifles. He also collects old Nitro Express ammo in some insanely HUGE calibers, like Four-Bore. He knows of whence the brass cometh, and also of the boolit molds. Email me if you want me to give you his contact info. He’s a private type of guy, so I can’t just put it out on the net, but you have the creds, so I assume he will share info with you.
Not really jealous, I know damn well I couldn’t stand up to such a rifle. If faced with a Cape, I would cede him back his environment, quickly.
lol. yep, Dog, that would be my assumption as well. Still, the idea of killing something that can kill me back is always paramount in my mind.
I will shoot you an email, because I would indeed be interested.