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The double rifle, also known as a double-barreled rifle, is a rifle with two barrels mounted parallel to each other that can be fired simultaneously or sequentially in quick succession. Synonymous with big game hunting found primarily in Africa and Asia , the double rifle is a sporting weapon with very little military heritage.
The .600 Nitro Express is a slightly tapered walled, rimmed, centerfire rifle cartridge designed for use in single-shot and double rifles. [4]The cartridge fires a .620 in (15.7 mm) diameter, 900 gr (58 g) projectile with three powder loadings: the standard being 100 gr (6.5 g) of cordite at a muzzle velocity of 1,850 ft/s (560 m/s); a 110 gr (7.1 g) loading which generates a muzzle velocity ...
Bailey machine gun: Winchester Repeating Arms Company.32 rifle cartridge United States: 1874 Caldwell machine gun.303 British Australia: 1915 Colt Mk 11 cannon Colt's Manufacturing Company: 20x110mm USN United States: EX-17 Heligun: Hughes Aircraft Company 7.62x51mm NATO United States: 1962 Feldl gun 11x50mmR Bavaria: 1867 Fokker-Leimberger
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]
Due to the heavy bullet and powder charge, the gun has significant recoil but this is mitigated by the low velocity, resulting in recoil being delivered as a strong push rather than a violent blow. Rifles chambered for this cartridge tend to be heavy double-gun style, and are typically quite expensive. [3] Dimensions of the .470 Nitro Express.
Remington Model 95 with pearl grips and barrels open for reloading COP .357 Magnum derringer. The original Philadelphia Deringer was a small single-barrel, muzzleloading caplock pistol designed by Henry Deringer (1786–1868) and produced from 1852 to 1868, and was a popular concealed carry single-shot handgun of the era widely copycatted by competitors. [6]
Theodore Roosevelt with a Holland & Holland double rifle in .500/450 Nitro and bagged elephant. [1]An elephant gun is a large caliber gun, rifled or smoothbore, originally developed for use by big-game hunters for elephant and other large game.
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.