Show your work horses and bubba rifles

[Warbeast]

Now that Rifle is sexy.

Well done Sir

 

[Brian]

" Sexy"
It's never been called that, Thanks! I will take it in the best possible way.

 

[PanhandlinPat]

" Sexy"
It's never been called that, Thanks! I will take it in the best possible way.

You’ll have to share more details on that thing, you have me intrigued.

 

[Brian]

Well, the bullet comes out of the funny looking end...

The conversion from a HR 10 ga. to the big bore is relatively simple, the hard part is finding a gunsmith that will do it.

For the fat .577NE case the doner H&R Handy gun must be a 10 ga. The H&R frame is the stronger SB2 frame.
The procedure is called the " Barrel Stub Method". The original barrel is whacked off in front of the hinge pin and the new unchambered barrel is threaded into the "stub", then it is chambered and then you shoot it.

Until recently, I used it without the brake. That saved me some on ammunition cost as no one wanted to shoot it.

I made and installed the brake for my recent hunt buffalo hunt of 6 cows, it recoils about like a .375HH. Go ahead call me a sissy, but I warn you I am a cryer.

- The barrel is a heavy 26.5 inches plus the brake.
- The total weight, soaking wet, is under 12 lbs.
- The stock has minimum drop which helps significantly with the felt recoil. That is why the sight is mounted so high.
- I am camo nerd. What can I say?
- The recoil pad is a Limbsaver Nitro. it is much wider that the butt stock. ( Very elegant. )

When PH's first see how it rolls up a cape buffalo the are very impressed. I want to say "friggin' shocked" but I never use superlatives.

I have used my own hard cast, 21 BNH, flat nosed bullets and Peregrine Bushmaster bullets.
They both abruptly conclude a buffalo hunt, it's almost anticlimactic.

My next buffalo hunt, which is only pencilled in because I am now 80 yrs. old, will be with my TC Encore, MGM 50-110 barrel and CEB Raptor bullets. I have built a muzzle brake for it too. ( They are habit forming. )

 

[Duke1966]

 

[Grumpy gumpy]

Howa in 223. Nothing special, bounces around in the ute and gets used nearly everyday for culling , you get comfortable with the same rifle and nothing is safe within 200 yards. It’s starting to get tired though, would have 6-7000 rounds down it and the stock could use a tidy up
Gumpy

 

[ftrovato]

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Howa in 223. Nothing special, bounces around in the ute and gets used nearly everyday for culling , you get comfortable with the same rifle and nothing is safe within 200 yards. It’s starting to get tired though, would have 6-7000 rounds down it and the stock could use a tidy up
Gumpy

Nothing like when they become an extension of your arm!

 

[Captain Munro]

My Savage 111 in 30-06. I recently redid the stock and got a new recoil pad from Hogue. When I decided I wanted to hunt, as a youth, my Dad was worked up because he didn't have a rifle for me to use. It just so happened that he had bought a raffle ticket and forgot about it until my uncle told him he won. The good Lord smiled on us and delivered. It isn't fancy, but it shoots very well!

 

[ftrovato]

Working guns. A Ruger 77/22 in 22 long rifle and a Ruger Compact Model 77 in 7mm-08.

Good medicine from squirrels to deer that have been getting it done for a few decades.

 

[PanhandlinPat]

Well, the bullet comes out of the funny looking end...

The conversion from a HR 10 ga. to the big bore is relatively simple, the hard part is finding a gunsmith that will do it.

For the fat .577NE case the doner H&R Handy gun must be a 10 ga. The H&R frame is the stronger SB2 frame.
The procedure is called the " Barrel Stub Method". The original barrel is whacked off in front of the hinge pin and the new unchambered barrel is threaded into the "stub", then it is chambered and then you shoot it.

Until recently, I used it without the brake. That saved me some on ammunition cost as no one wanted to shoot it.

I made and installed the brake for my recent hunt buffalo hunt of 6 cows, it recoils about like a .375HH. Go ahead call me a sissy, but I warn you I am a cryer.

- The barrel is a heavy 26.5 inches plus the brake.
- The total weight, soaking wet, is under 12 lbs.
- The stock has minimum drop which helps significantly with the felt recoil. That is why the sight is mounted so high.
- I am camo nerd. What can I say?
- The recoil pad is a Limbsaver Nitro. it is much wider that the butt stock. ( Very elegant. )

When PH's first see how it rolls up a cape buffalo the are very impressed. I want to say "friggin' shocked" but I never use superlatives.

I have used my own hard cast, 21 BNH, flat nosed bullets and Peregrine Bushmaster bullets.
They both abruptly conclude a buffalo hunt, it's almost anticlimactic.

My next buffalo hunt, which is only pencilled in because I am now 80 yrs. old, will be with my TC Encore, MGM 50-110 barrel and CEB Raptor bullets. I have built a muzzle brake for it too. ( They are habit forming. )

I was wondering if you had to use the 10 gauge/ ultra hunter frame. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Brian]

I was wondering if you had to use the 10 gauge/ ultra hunter frame. Thanks for sharing.

"The H&R frame is the stronger SB2 frame."
"For the fat .577NE case the doner H&R Handy gun must be a 10 ga."