Before he became a washed up, gin soaked FOWG (Fat Old White Guy) - WL Emery was a world famous hunter, explorer, novelist and acclaimed man about town. It looks like he's shooting something odd... a black powder gun? But - I swear that is a bolt action, almost. That can't be a mag tube on that gun... it has to be a ramrod... I think?
Yikes, what is that, about 4 gauge?
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I’m thinking that you wrote and directed this?
Black powder 4 bore. The elephant hunting version of a punt gun.
ReplyDeleteThat DOES appear to be a rifle bolt. I was going to guess 'prop gun' but I will acquies to others who know what they are looking at. One helluva pipe going there, like aiming a bazooka.
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That's a 4 gauge, or 4 bore large game rifle. I think Roosevelt shot one once, and once was enough for him. He said he wouldn't care to shoot it again unless his life depended on it.
ReplyDeleteBack in the bad old days an 8 bore was about as large as anyone would care to shoot, but then some amateur got in his cups and declared that a 4 bore was a real man's gun, so someone built one. And another, and so on.
Oddly, I've actually seen and held one. It was an antique double rifle and in poor condition. The seller wanted eight thousand USD for it, and that was back in 1999. The bullet / slug it fired was the size of a shot glass. I estimate it weighed about 12 pounds or so. This was when I was in South Dakota, working on the Y2K crises.
Black powder guns pick up power by projectile mass. Unlike smokeless guns that can use mass and velocity. That’s why your black powder squirrely rifle is a .36, a moderate powered deer gun is about .40 ~ .50…and heavier big game guns start at around .54 or .58 and go up from there.
ReplyDeleteThat’s a bad pic - on second glance that “bolt knob” is probably the hammer… would it be a cap lick or a flinter?
Scott over at Kentucky Ballistics regularly shoots a 4 bore on his vids. He’s a big man and as he says it… “Shooting a 4 bore is like riding the lightening…”.
I personally despise the big kickers and magnums and gave them up years ago. Never missed them either…