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The .700 Nitro Express (17.8×89mmR) is a big-game rifle cartridge. The cartridge is typically charged with around 250 grains of powder, in addition to a two-grain igniter charge (to reduce the tendency of the cartridge to hang fire from such large powder charges). [ 3 ]
A hand-built gun from H&H can cost around £60,000 for a shotgun and close to £100,000 for some rifles, with prices roughly doubling with luxury engraving, and there is a waiting period of 2–3 years between ordering and delivery. [4] In the 1990s, Holland & Holland started a major expansion programme.
With a few exceptions, such the .242 Rimless Nitro Express from the 1920s, and a brief period around 1980 when Remington renamed their .280 Remington cartridge the 7 mm Express Remington, the label express is today used for short range, big game rifles pushing large, fast bullets. [5]
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 ...
.500/450 Nitro Express.450 Rigby.450 Dakota.450 Watts Magnum.458×2-inch American.458 Express.458 HAM'R.458 Lott.458 SOCOM.458 U.S. Silent Sniper.458 Winchester Magnum.460 Steyr.460 Weatherby Magnum.461 Gibbs.465 H&H Magnum.500/465 Nitro Express.470 Nitro Express.475 Nitro Express.475 No 2 Nitro Express.476 Nitro Express.499 Leitner-Wise
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Double rifles have been produced in all calibres from .220 in (5.6 mm) to .700 in (17.8 mm). Traditional British double rifle calibres include the Rook rifle, Black Powder Express and rimmed Nitro Express families of cartridges and many of these can still be obtained today. [7]
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