Thread: 0.577 Rifle!

Originally Posted by Steelforge

I saw a shorter clip of this once and assumed it was some kind of big shotgun, but apparently it's a 0.577 bolt action hunting rifle.

Anyone seen one of these before? I have no idea what you'd be hunting with one of these!

http://www.orschlurch.de/video/577-t-rex-rifle.html

Just one guy manages to fire it without dropping it or falling over, right at the end.

You hunt the sort of thing where it's gonna hurt a lot more if you *don't* fire it. The sort of things with sharp fangs and/or pointy horns and a really unpleasant disposition. Usually these things are used at ranges of under 10 feet (usually at muzzle range), because you really can't afford to miss, but then it's really got to drop your target in its tracks without so much as a twitch.

I've got a .577 rifle, but it's the kind that you load through the front end. It shoots a bullet about the size of my thumb. There were a variety of cartridges in this caliber back in the mid 1800's, due to the excess of surplus .577 Enfields and Springfields. There were even pistols made in this caliber as a last-ditch backup weapon in tiger country in the Indian subcontinent - they were called "Howdah" pistols.