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The .500 Nitro Express / 13x76mmR is a rifle cartridge designed for hunting large and dangerous game animals in Africa and India. [1] This cartridge was primarily designed for use in double rifles though various single shots were produced on the Farquarson action and at least one major company (Heym) produced it in bolt-action configuration.
The Nitro Express line (c.1895), so named because the composition of the early smokeless powders such as Poudre B, ballistite and cordite, were the first of the new order of elephant guns. With smaller metal-jacketed projectiles ranging from 10.2 to 15.7 mm (.400 to .620 in) caliber and velocities around 610 m/s (2,000 ft/s) they possessed ...
[2] 500/450 Magnum Nitro Express was introduced by Holland & Holland for their single shot and double rifles during the late 1890s. By the time the .500/450 Nitro Express appeared, the early issues with the .450 Nitro Express had been resolved, and it quickly became the most popular and widely used Elephant hunting round, leaving the .500/450 ...
What resulted was a rush by British rifle and ammunition makers to develop a substitute, Holland & Holland created the .500/465 Nitro Express, Joseph Lang the .470 Nitro Express, an unidentified firm the .475 Nitro Express, Eley Brothers the .475 No 2 Nitro Express and Westley Richards the .476 Nitro Express, [2] with the .470 NE becoming the ...
There is a large variety of express rounds, including the Nitro Express family of cartridges. Older black powder express cartridges include: .450/400 Black Powder Express.450 Black Powder Express.500/450 No 1 Black Powder Express.500/450 Magnum Black Powder Express.500 Black Powder Express.577/500 No 2 Black Powder Express.577 Black Powder Express
The .577 Nitro Express is a large-bore centerfire rifle cartridge designed for the purpose of hunting large game such as elephant. This cartridge is used almost exclusively in single-shot and double express rifles for hunting in the Tropics or hot climates in general and is a cartridge associated with the golden age of African safaris and Indian shikars.
One of Larsen's favourite weapons for elephant was a .600 Nitro Express by W.J. Jeffery & Co. One incident recorded about Larsen occurred on 20 January 1909, whilst on the trail of a wounded bull elephant in the district of Benguela, he came upon a pride of lions, killing seven of them in two minutes with nine shots from his .600 Nitro Express.
The cartridge was originally known as the .505 Rimless Nitro Express. ... elephant, and rhino. In literature ... .500 Nitro Express.500 No. 2 Express