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I was browsing through Peter Dyson's webshop in search for parts to reconvert my musket to flint and stumbled over this
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A 4 gauge elephant rifle :what:
Bejeezes, thats like 26.7 mm or 1.053", what a monster! And it's a mere 22 lbs... Phew!!!
If you have the nerve to pull the trigger there's 1750gr of lead tearing downrange propelled by 1 oz of powder.


The NRA has Stanley's example in it's museum. If anyone wants to have a gun that will stop the .50 BMG shooters from bragging about ther big bad guns, this is it.
 
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Guess he was faithfully practicing the old adage: Always use ENOUGH gun when hunting dangerous game!
I suspect after squeezing the trigger on that hand held artillery piece he had nosebleeds, loosened teeth and at least transitory deafness but that`s a small price to pay for avoiding getting trampled to death by an enraged elephant.
 
If that is the result of shooting one of those guns, I think I'll just stay home and let someone else hunt the elephants.
 
They had to to use guns like because if you missed or shot poorly :cuss: you wasn't lusid enought to feel the stomping you was going to get lol :what:
 
Many of the "original" elephant hunters that survived had to return to England for retirement because they were so busted up by the guns they shot.
One story of a WH shooting a 4 bore muzzleloader off of a termite mound. He said the fall was what really hurt.
 
I don't think there's any need to find a corner.

You'll be flung into it like a mitten if you pull that trigger :D
 
Them are the kinda guns they refer to when they say it kills at both ends. I disagree. From the recoil and major flinching I think they most likely kill at only one, the shooters, because the shot will most likely miss.
 
Say I wanted to hunt elephants, besides the khaki suit I would take along a .50 caliber muzzleloader. I don't think any pachyderm would survive a good solid shot to the temple. What about hardened steel saboted bullets? They could probably very easily be made with a lath, that would be pretty dang cool! :)
 
Now that .50 seems quite cheap considering the amount of shots per pound I get.
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Well the components would cost me $1.69, and the cheapest .50 BMG rounds that I have found would cost me $3.43. :D

You could get the job done with an 8-bore and a bronze round ball, over 220 grains of 1Fg. Especially if you had it loaded in both barrels of a SxS and wanted to recover in case you needed the second barrel. :what:

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Levi

I believe on powerbelt website they have a video of them shooting down an african elephant with a .50 one shot
 
I saw that video a few weeks ago, I'm not sure what to think of hunting hogs with an airgun. Maybe a PCP, but not a springer. I do think with the right pellet and the right gun you could take some medium game animals. I don't know how tough hog's skulls are, but I could probably kill a small porker if I really had to using my Crossman Quest and some of those high velocity pellets. I'd probably say it would be wisest to go in through the eye socket, that way there wouldn't be much to go through to get to the brain box.

The fact that you can hunt elephants with a .50 muzzleloader doesn't surprise me at all, I have seen what 80 grains of Triple Seven and a round ball will do, it's stout. I tried taking out the screws and removing the under rib of the barrel on my rifle, it kinda does look like an elephant gun when I do that. I kinda am thinking I should get a half stock in maybe .54 or .58 and do some things with it, in order to make it look like an elephant gun. Of course I can't afford a big .75 or a Pedersoli, but I can at least satisfy my big bore lust. I've kinda been wanting one lately, partially so I can say to my friends "You wanna come to the range with me this weekend and fire my elephant gun?" and see the look on their faces. Hehehe!

~Levi
 
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