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Check this out. Make sure you read the text below before watching the
video. The gun in the video is basically a "show and tell" custom built on a
Thompson Encore. The Caliber... 600 Nitro Express. That's right... an
elephant gun round in a handgun. As the story goes, the guy that built it
was a custom gun maker and built this as an exhibition piece, never
intending it to be fired.
He takes it to the range with him just to show it off. However, the big guy
that shoots it in the video had been bugging the builder to let him fire it.
Until fairly recently, (early-mid '80's) the 600 Nitro Express was hands
down the biggest, nastiest, hardest hitting, and heaviest recoiling weapon
you could buy. It was designed for one simple purpose... to knock an
elephant flat! In the shooting world, "recoil index" is used to provide a
measure of "kick" when a weapon is fired. A .30-06 is the benchmark with a
rating of a 1.0, to which all others are compared. For many people, the '06
is about the limit of what they can shoot multiple times comfortably. A .243
is rated at about 0.4, a .270 about 0.8, etc.
The 600 Nitro Express is rated at a 9.4!Tags: 600 NITRO EXPRESS |
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