And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The "Express" would indicate this is a double rifle. Purdey used the model name Express for their breech-loading double rifles for dangerous game, such as elephants, cape buffalo and rhinocerouses. There were several cartridges developed for the safari hunter such as the .450 Black Powder Express, the .450Nitro Express (aka 450NE, Nitro was the British term for smokeless powder). Later the 470NE, 577NE and 600NE were developed.
It reminds me of a story I read about Sir Henry Baker, the designer of the Brown Bess musket the Brits used in the Revolutionay War. He developed a 12 bore musket. It was a 73 Cal. flintlock with an almost 600 grain ball. He said he only fired it once!
Is it an "elephant gun"?
ReplyDeleteThe "Express" would indicate this is a double rifle. Purdey used the model name Express for their breech-loading double rifles for dangerous game, such as elephants, cape buffalo and rhinocerouses. There were several cartridges developed for the safari hunter such as the .450 Black Powder Express, the .450Nitro Express (aka 450NE, Nitro was the British term for smokeless powder). Later the 470NE, 577NE and 600NE were developed.
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Beauty, but the recoil would knock me on my ass...once.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of a story I read about Sir Henry Baker, the
Deletedesigner of the Brown Bess musket the Brits used in the
Revolutionay War. He developed a 12 bore musket. It was
a 73 Cal. flintlock with an almost 600 grain ball. He said
he only fired it once!
Here is a .600 Nitro Express round:
http://cdn0.wideopenspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/the_600_nitro_express_is_typical_of_huge_bore_elephant_gun_rounds.jpg
Gott in Himmel!
DeleteNope, not even once. I like my shoulder right where it is, thank you.