As per Butlersrangers recommendation, from another thread, I'm starting a topic concerning big bore rifles.

Anyone with a big bore rifle(s) please show us what you got!!!

As mentioned in another thread I recently purchased a .500 Ingram of Scotland double barrel rifle.  I purchased it from a local gentleman who's an avid big game hunter and collector of big bore rifles.

I'm new to the world of big bore guns so I don't have a vast knowledge concerning this style of firearm but I'm willing to learn.  I guess I'm under the spell of the "African Big Game Hunter Mystique".

Below is a link for information on Charles Ingram who's firearms business was the maker of my .500 BPE:

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Supposedly, Isle of Britannia gun makers kept meticulous firearms records.  I haven't contacted anyone as of yet but I'm hoping to find information concerning my purchase.

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Quite lovely, that's a serious Hunting Rifle, but, recoil should be quite tolerable.

Thanks BR!

Looking forward to sending large chunks of lead down range!

well if you like big bore pistols this is a good one to have ... it a 54 bore which means one pound of lead will make 54 round ball ... its a 5 shot with a mussel velocity of 620 feet per second and .442 caliber ...

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My Big Bore carry gun. It's a bear to keep it from printing!

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That double rifle is a work of art.  Love it.  But then I have a weak spot for external hammer double barreled guns.

The only big bore rifle I have is a Remington 11-87 in .729 caliber or 12 bore.  Slays deer like a boss.

Its not a rifle, but it is big.  1841 six pounder,  3 1/2" bore

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HeyJoe gets the Biggest Bang award!!!

Say Culp does that 11-87 come with Sound Suppressor???

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Ok... it's official - now I want to be HeyJoe's heir!

If you want to talk REALLY big guns, then nothing compares to these!  (Although our battlegroup in 1987 included the USS Missouri BB-63, I do regret never having served aboard one while they were still active!)

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Was driving an Ammunition Ship during that time.  One day we rearmed USS Iowa.  They steamed alongside at 100' and we sent ammo over aft;  they were firing the forward guns.  Ship's store sold out of film that day.

Was driving an Ammunition Ship during that time.  One day we rearmed USS Iowa.  They steamed alongside at 100' and we sent ammo over aft;  they were firing the forward guns.  Ship's store sold out of film that day.

I'm going to have to research this one a little more but, come on- the Nazi's built this during WWII? (Biggest gun ever made!)

Talk about great balls of fire!

I'd like to see the progressive loading press for these bad boy rounds!!

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Local Boy wrote on Jun 18^th, 2019 at 7:18am:

HeyJoe gets the Biggest Bang award!!! Say Culp does that 11-87 come with Sound Suppressor???

Not yet!  The one in the picture is too small for my needs. :o

HeyJoe wrote on Jun 17^th, 2019 at 6:42pm:

Its not a rifle, but it is big.  1841 six pounder,  3 1/2" bore

Please tell me that is a full scale gun.  Ooooooooooooo.  And you use it for deer hunting.

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Its full scale.  1/2 lb of cannon powder and a Progresso soup can of concrete will punch through a dumpster.  Good fun at a shoot at the range with appliances and a car.  A liter soda bottle with marbles would work on deer.  Have a neighborhood watch sign on the back of the trailer.

Awesome cannon HeyJoe.

Neighborhood watch sign on the back of your trailer...LOL!

I bet under the right conditions/settings your marble grape shot could eliminate a number of deer at onetime!

Love those big navel guns and the stories you guys tell about actually being there when they were fired.

Here's some historic photos showing artillery being used when the government was experimenting with the idea of shooting someone to the moon...actually NASA originally stood for National Artillery Space Administration.

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Do you have a limber for that beast?  I can find load of cannon videos but only one that shows a cannon under horse power being unlimbered.  What would be cool to watch is and entire battery being pulled forward, unlimbered and put through the firing order.

Being a civil war student since reading a 1965 national geographic about Five Forks I tried to envision CW artillery being shot while under fire like at the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg.  Had to be hell.