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Arrove at the range yesterday just in time to see my pal John putting away his latest acquisition - a George Gibbs double rifle in .577 BPE. This beautiful old rifle shoots a 550 - 690gr bullet, usually of chilled nose hardened lead, over 150 - 190gr of Fine rifle powder, what we would now call 3Fg. The gun is rifled with Metford's Patent rifling, the same as used in the long-range Gibbs Creedmoor target rifles of the 1860-70's era.
There were two different case lengths for this calibre, hence the vastly differing bullet weights and powder charges, but even the lesser load would be something that would do the biz on anything in the Americas as well as Africa and Asia.
Here are some pics for those of you interested in this kind of firearm to drool over -
Here in yUK anybody over the age of 18 with the necessary funds could walk into the dealers and buy this gun, just to have and to drool over, but not to shoot. To shoot it, you'd need to -
1. Be a full member of a gun club where they have the facilities and range limitations to ebable you to safely shoot it.
2. Have it registered on your Firearm Certificate [FAC] as a .577cal double rifle.
3. Have a Black powder license and home storage box of the Home Office approved type.
4. Axiomatic in all this is that you have secure home accommodations - all this goes tentacle in tentacle with having an FAC in the fust place.
More information, if required, can be obtained by writing your request on a piece of paper attached to a $100 bill to my home address.
Just kidding.
tac
There were two different case lengths for this calibre, hence the vastly differing bullet weights and powder charges, but even the lesser load would be something that would do the biz on anything in the Americas as well as Africa and Asia.
Here are some pics for those of you interested in this kind of firearm to drool over -
Here in yUK anybody over the age of 18 with the necessary funds could walk into the dealers and buy this gun, just to have and to drool over, but not to shoot. To shoot it, you'd need to -
1. Be a full member of a gun club where they have the facilities and range limitations to ebable you to safely shoot it.
2. Have it registered on your Firearm Certificate [FAC] as a .577cal double rifle.
3. Have a Black powder license and home storage box of the Home Office approved type.
4. Axiomatic in all this is that you have secure home accommodations - all this goes tentacle in tentacle with having an FAC in the fust place.
More information, if required, can be obtained by writing your request on a piece of paper attached to a $100 bill to my home address.
Just kidding.
tac