|
|
|
|
#1
10-19-2005, 08:06 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I have the pleasure of having fired a .575 Nyati elephant rifle. It was built on a standard Win Model 70 action: just over ten pounds.
Without the heavy-duty muzzle brake, that gun develops 240 ft-lbs of recoil. It's impossible to stay on your feet, they say. You don't shoot it to stop an elephant's charge - you shoot it to instantly remove yourself from the tusker's path! With the brake, it was about like a .458 Winnie - and the back blast would smartly remove ball caps from observers! I fired two shots, but at $20 a trigger pull, the fun runs out in a hurry. A 50 BMG? Cap gun. 
__________________
Freedom of the Press Does NOT mean the right to lie! Visit me at my Reloading Room webpage! Get signed copies of my Vietnam novels at "Baggy Zero Four" "Mike Five Eight" 
|
 |
|
|
Hybrid Mode
