Shot the Big Gun

[Kurt]

Don is that Ricks rifle?? if it is it should shoot pretty good from the pictures he posted using it.

Chris I think a 16 pounder would be a good choice over the 25 pounder. I sent Kirk a 1.3" round Krieger blank .44 barrel and a .44-100 straight reamer to chamber it and told him to keep it as long as possible and it turned out a nice 35" round no taper rough rider that is just a shade over 17 pounds and that is almost more then I want to drag around and in the gun cart it tips over backwards if I don't have a couple 100 round boxes of ammo in front LOL.
I shot it at the Q one year and shooting the offhand bucket I could hold it steady for 4 or 5 seconds before having to let it down but it shot well enough that it put me in 13th place.
But the heavy rifles sure eat the recoil to make them a pleasant rifle shooting the large capacity rounds.