50Gunner
AH veteran
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2022
- Messages
- 182
- Reaction score
- 423
- Location
- Oklahoma
- Hunted
- Tanzania, South Africa, U.S.
Woodcarver, BTW Sir, we may find ourselves around a real hunting campfire some day, if we do, I'll bring that Holland, you're most welcome to shoot and hunt with it, those nickel cases in the photo came from a buddy that had thrown them in the trash, I asked, what the hell are you going to do with those? give them to you if you want them, my old buddy is a Cope dipper, I dug over 100 cases out of a trash can after that turd had spit what looked like a snuff can fulla tobacco juice on them LOL.
They were beautiful Federal 470 Nitro cases, brought em home and threw em in a plastic bucket, half filled it with gasoline, got my pistol cleaning rod and 50 cal plastic brush and gave em a good scrubbing, let dry, washed again with Dawn and hot water, let dry again, ran through 500-450 FL die, trimmed to length, end result was over 100 beautiful regulating light big game loads with the 350gr Woodleigh soft point, they use the same 106gr charge of H-4831, have only shot one deer and one pig with that load, but obviously have no bullets recovered.
Very glad to have em, but man I worked for those nickel cases ; ]
mms45, I sincerely hope you find just the Holland double you seek, they're great handling rifles.
257r7x57, Thanks for that history lesson, TR lived 500 years in his short 60 years on earth.
AZDAVE, will certainly report, Thanks, looking like Bots or Zim for the combo Ele/Lion hunt.
steve white, oh damn, that had to be awful, but a sweet and sour blessing just the same, it would definitely charge my hunting instincts just to get to see what's living there and may be found again, cool story.
lvW, I have a beautiful little Alfred Schilling boxlock 500 Nitro with 26" barrels, 11 lbs, a joy to carry and shoot, it fires both 570gr TSX and banded flat nosed solids 2168 fps with perfect 50 yard regulation, my 577 with 750gr TSX and banded flat nosed solids at 2076 fps most certainly does NOT lack penetration, already proved.
They were beautiful Federal 470 Nitro cases, brought em home and threw em in a plastic bucket, half filled it with gasoline, got my pistol cleaning rod and 50 cal plastic brush and gave em a good scrubbing, let dry, washed again with Dawn and hot water, let dry again, ran through 500-450 FL die, trimmed to length, end result was over 100 beautiful regulating light big game loads with the 350gr Woodleigh soft point, they use the same 106gr charge of H-4831, have only shot one deer and one pig with that load, but obviously have no bullets recovered.
Very glad to have em, but man I worked for those nickel cases ; ]
mms45, I sincerely hope you find just the Holland double you seek, they're great handling rifles.
257r7x57, Thanks for that history lesson, TR lived 500 years in his short 60 years on earth.
AZDAVE, will certainly report, Thanks, looking like Bots or Zim for the combo Ele/Lion hunt.
steve white, oh damn, that had to be awful, but a sweet and sour blessing just the same, it would definitely charge my hunting instincts just to get to see what's living there and may be found again, cool story.
lvW, I have a beautiful little Alfred Schilling boxlock 500 Nitro with 26" barrels, 11 lbs, a joy to carry and shoot, it fires both 570gr TSX and banded flat nosed solids 2168 fps with perfect 50 yard regulation, my 577 with 750gr TSX and banded flat nosed solids at 2076 fps most certainly does NOT lack penetration, already proved.
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