Big Bore Rifles

[Gerhard]

Lets talk about the big boom sticks.

Here is mine.

The 460G&A

https://youtu.be/u6NAXwdtzQM

FFF Safaris

https://www.fffsafaris.co.za

[muzzlebrake]

Love them Loudenboomer guns.
My favorite is my custom wildcat .338 WSM with Barnes bullets. My 2 bullet choices are 210 and 185 grain TTSX-BT @ 3050 and 3240 FPS. Very similar to Lazzaroni Galaxy loads. So fun to shoot and under .5 moa @ 100yds.

[RR 314]

Great round. Much more user friendly than the .460 Weatherby (standard load). I prefer the old boring .404 parent round; but perhaps just due to nostalgia. :-)

I helped a friend work up loads for a .505 Gibbs last year and I can tell you that wasn't much fun. Finally resorted to shooting off sticks as from the bench it was pretty rough.

I have started to see more of you PHs going to synthetic stocked rifles after years of scoffing at the Americans and their "ugly rifles". Be safe and happy hunting!

[Honker]

.375 H&H is largest we have and I wish I had more for Cape Buffalo. He ate that 300 grain lead like vitamins.

[Phillip Fields]

I'm getting too old to handle the recoil so I don't currently have any Big Bore rifles, unless you count a couple of .45-70s. I got rid of my factory special run Ruger M77 in .458 Win Mag. I do still have a couple of Medium bores, a .338 Win Mag and a .375H&H.

[RifleBowPistol]

Interesting caliber, never heard of it before, heard of many of the old big game calibers, from many years ago, then the common big game calibers, but not the 460 G&A. Looks like it should be a stout caliber. The only big game calibers I have ever had any experience with are the 375 H&H typically, then the 458 Win. Mag and the 460 Weatherby. I like that rifle of yours, everything I have see and heard is Brunos are great rifles.

It would be nice to go hunting over there some day, don't think I will ever have the time or money to do that, but have wanted to for a long time.

[RR 314]

.375 H&H is largest we have and I wish I had more for Cape Buffalo. He ate that 300 grain lead like vitamins.

You should have been shooting copper. Lead is for fishing weights and scofflaw duck hunters.

[LMiz]

I have a bolt action 458 Lott. Still haven't made a kill with it but it's fun to have.

[xman59]

i like the old tried and true 45-70,,, like the marlin lever guns

[arrowsmack324]

My big bore stable consists of a single shot cva 45-70 and a home brewed 458 SoCom AR. I love those guns it's nice not needing a spotting scope at 100 yds.

[Johnny44]

It seems folk are talking up their mid bores. It has to be .40 or larger to be a “Big Bore”

[silencer2011]

my gunsmith buddy has a rifle that he acquired that is marked .450 velociraptor. he sent me a picture of the chamber cast and it makes a .338 lapua look pretty small. looks to be some sort of .505 Gibbs wildcat. I wanna shoot it if he can ever get any rounds loaded!

[sendit]

I have several big boomers but my favorite has to be my 50 BMG.

Fist full of power and dollars lol
230 grs of H-5010 behind a 750gr Amax.
Ballistic Coefficient is 1.05

[tigerscowboy]

It seems folk are talking up their mid bores. It has to be .40 or larger to be a “Big Bore”

Does this imply the 340 Wby Mag rests in the mid bore column?

[sendit]

Does this imply the 340 Wby Mag rests in the mid bore column?

Yes .338 is smaller than .400

Even the 375 H&H is considered a "middle" bore