Just for fun

[Larry Ashcraft]

Took this picture tonight (Thanks to H&H's friend Dirk for the beautiful round and to H&H for the fired brass!).

First three are pretty easy. Four and five are a little tougher. As you can see, number four is just fired brass.

Take a guess!

 

[Barry the Bear]

First is 22 lr, 2nd is 556/223, third I ain't too sure 308? 30-06?, 4th .444 marlin?, last 700 nitro?

 

[gbran]

My eyes are pretty bad. Are 3 or 4 belted cases?

 

[jakk280rem]

22lr, 222 rem, 308 win, 505 Gibbs, 20mm.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

22lr, 222 rem, 308 win

Close. Number three is a 30-06.

505 Gibbs

Also close. It's a .470 Nitro Express.

20mm

No, it's a sporting round.

 

[morcey2]

#5: 6-bore Retina-Detatcher Express?

 

[Devonai]

Morcey, I believe it's a 6-bore Torn Rotator Cuff Express.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Actually, you guys are close. It's a 4 bore.

 

[Green_Giant]

Ah-Hah, the Oft-Imitated but Never Equaled TyranaMAX 4!

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Holy Hanna......

Ummm, is that a revolver round from God's reloading bench?

 

[Robert]

4 bore, 470NE after that nothing matters

 

[jakk280rem]

Give us some details on that 4 bore. Looks like a solid turned brass projectile. How much does it weigh? Pot shot guess 25-3500 gr. 7-8 oz. Unless the velocity is under 1000 fps, that looks like it would do a through and through on a bull elephant, front to back.

 

[morcey2]

Holy Hanna......

Ummm, is that a revolver round from God's reloading bench?

I think Magnum Research makes a 4-bore BFR.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Give us some details on that 4 bore. Looks like a solid turned brass projectile. How much does it weigh? Pot shot guess 25-3500 gr. 7-8 oz.

Dunno, I would have to ask Dirk. He does turn the cartridge case and bullet on a lathe. I'm guessing maybe 700-1000 grains though, since a 4 bore lead ball would weigh 1750 grains.

 

[jakk280rem]

True, but a quarter pound lead ball would take up less room. I'm sticking to my guess of low to mid 2000's. Ask him what kind of velocity he's getting if you could. Demanding gun nerds want to know.

Just for fun, I ran some numbers through a free recoil energy calculator. Assuming a rifle weight of 15lbs, a projectile weight of 2000gr and a velocity of 1800 ft per second, I arived at 615 ft lbs of energy. Thats over 14 times the energy created by a 30lb 50 bmg. Yowza. Might not move the Missouri several feet, but short of a vehicle mount, I wouldn't fire it.

 

[Robert]

Dirk says they are actually not unpleasant to shoot.

 

[200Apples]

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Which long arm does he use these Holy-Toledo-Ohio 4-bore cartridges in where he finds them "not unpleasant" to shoot?

 

[rszwieg]

My shoulder hurts just looking at the 4 bore.

 

[barnbwt]

So how far into a herd of bison will that 4 bore go? Really irritates me that such a round gets a sporting exemption, but not 14.5x114 (or 12.7x108, for that matter, even for single-shots)

As far as recoil..."To answer your question, kind of like that" (can't find a GIF of Elmer Fudd being sent over the horizon by his scattergun's recoil, today )

TCB