Who is hunting cape buffalo with a 577 NE.?

[Altitude sickness]

Can you explain the process of turning an H&R single shot into the .577

 

[Brian]

Pondora, Thank you for your post. I can see that you have cape buffalo hunting cartridges very well sorted out.

Your point about ".. no reason to use a .500 or .577 NE on buffalo." is new to me, thank you, I will make a note.

Also, You say, "it all boils down to bullet placement..." Excellent concept! It shows me that I am never too old to learn something new.

Please keep your instructive posts coming, I'm sure that I am not the only seasoned cape buffalo hunter who enjoys them.

Best regards,
Brian

 

[Brian]

Can you explain the process of turning an H&R single shot into the .577

Now that is a good question! It is usually called the barrel stub method. ( "Barrel Stub method" is a search term that usually gets a search started on google.)

A good machinist/gunsmith. not me, will take a break open rifle or in this case a 10 ga. shotgun and will cut the barrel off just in front of the barrel lugs . That's the "barrel stub" which is he then threads out large enough to screw a new barrel of the correct rifling inside this stub that is big enough to chamber in the new cartridge.

Whew, I bearly understand it myself, best you google it. Sorry. I did the wood work not the metal work on mine. I may have a proper explanation some where and if so I will post it here. Brian

 

[Skshyk]

That is just awesome!

 

[Brian]

Barrel Stub, Here is a link to some decent info on the subject. I think the the term "mono block" fits in here somewhere too. Brian

Gunsmith Barrel stub method - Google Search

 

[Brian]

I found the googling "barrel stubbing" works the best. Brian