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The .577 BPE originated around 1870 with the 2 1 ⁄ 2-inch variant. [1]The 3-inch cartridge has survived to the current day as the .577 Nitro for Black, the same cartridge loaded with mild loadings of modern smokeless powder, carefully balanced through trial to replicate the ballistics of the Black powder version.
A 3 + 1 ⁄ 8-inch variant would later be loaded with cordite to become the .577/500 Nitro Express. [1] For some time the .577/500 No. 2 BPE was loaded with cordite to become the .577/500 No. 2 Nitro for Black, the same cartridge loaded with mild loadings of cordite, carefully balanced through trial to replicate the ballistics of the black ...
The .577 Nitro Express 3-inch [76 mm] is a conversion of the .577 Black Powder Express 3-inch, it fires a 750-grain (49 g) projectile at over 2,050 feet per second (620 m/s). This cartridge was to become the most popular of the three and a standard round for African elephant hunters in the early 20th century. [3]
The early express cartridges used a heavy charge of black powder to propel a lightweight, often hollow point bullet, at high velocities to maximize point blank range. Later the express cartridges were loaded with nitrocellulose-based gunpowder, leading to the Nitro Express cartridges, the first of which was the .450 Nitro Express. [2]
.500 Black Powder Express.500 Jeffery.500 Nitro Express.500 S&W.500 Bushwhacker.500/450 Magnum Black Powder Express.502 Thunder Sabre.505/.404 Stewart.510 Beck.577/450 Martini–Henry.577/500 Nitro Express.577/500 No 2 Black Powder Express.505 Gibbs.510 DTC Europ.510 Whisper.55 Boys.56-56 Spencer.575 Miller & Greiss; 20/577 Alexander Henry
The .577/500 NE was developed by loading a 3 + 1 ⁄ 8-inch variant of the .577/500 Black Powder Express with smokeless cordite. The latter was developed by necking down the .577 Black Powder Express to .508". [2] Whilst very similar to the .577/500 No 2 Black Powder Express the two are not interchangeable. [1]
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
.577 Nitro Express, a rimmed metallic cartridge.577 Tyrannosaur, a type of cartridge developed by A-Square in 1993 for big game hunting in Africa.577/450 Martini–Henry, a black powder, centerfire round used by the British and British Empire militaries.577 Snider, an obsolete cartridge produced around 1867 and replaced in service by the .577/ ...