Thread: How the 700NE came about

Originally Posted by csmiffy

A good mix of passion, experience and a shit ton of money
160ftlb recoil-ouch. That doesnt count buying 4 of them or the ammunition

https://www.americanrifleman.org/con...nitro-express/

I was impressed that Feldstein had 5000 rounds made and sold to collectors for $500,000 financing the project and turning a profit. Very clever man, so a free set of custom rifles and change

Originally Posted by 308

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indicates Trumpesque levels of vanity so while new guns are always a good thing, he comes across as a tosser

Also, maybe it's just me but anyone who shoots an elephant is a right arsehole in my books

@308 I would agree. Whilst I do have aspirations to do an African hunt one day, I am more interested in Cape buffalo. Also while not quite politically correct if money was no issue I wouldn't mind a Lion or Leopard.
The sad part is in the example of elephants, they have to be culled to keep the numbers down in some areas to prevent damage to the ecosystem. The funds raised by people paying to do so helps game management and anti-poaching.
Again I realise it all helps, it isn't something I could do.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

at a mere $400,000 for a new rifle its a bargain...Mr Songhurst the first and second will be ordering one soon enough so we can hear about how they preform on fallow does at 50 yards LOL....

yeah I got 3 on the way.....

Originally Posted by 308

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indicates Trumpesque levels of vanity so while new guns are always a good thing, he comes across as a tosser

Also, maybe it's just me but anyone who shoots an elephant is a right arsehole in my books

well....if hunting is the mans lifelong passion..why not have portrate done...it could have been present from his dear wife or kids..... and shooting jumbos has been going on for a long time....the numbers are so high now if they arent shot they and everything else will starve...who are we to say its better they are culled to rot,than harvested for meat or indeed for trophy value...the income from safari will make huge contribution to conservation fullstop...
its no different to saying anyone who shoots a red stag is an arsehole....lets just 1080 poison them all instead.

William Bell shot a lot of them with the 6.5 Mannlicher

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

at a mere $400,000 for a new rifle its a bargain...Mr Songhurst the first and second will be ordering one soon enough so we can hear about how they preform on fallow does at 50 yards LOL....

Wouldn't it save time all round if Mr @Ryan_Songhurst just gave someone half the new price in cash? Cut out the middle man in a way.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

well....if hunting is the mans lifelong passion..why not have portrate done...it could have been present from his dear wife or kids..... and shooting jumbos has been going on for a long time....the numbers are so high now if they arent shot they and everything else will starve...who are we to say its better they are culled to rot,than harvested for meat or indeed for trophy value...the income from safari will make huge contribution to conservation fullstop...
its no different to saying anyone who shoots a red stag is an arsehole....lets just 1080 poison them all instead.

Sorry I didn't know that they needed culling due to numbers, I thought they were thin on the ground so fair enough

I wouldn't shoot one personally but I stand by the picture's resemblance to something like this

Eww

I find it somewhat disturbing you knew where to access that particular painting.......and IF the two were even somewhat similar...Trump would be surrounded by money in many different denominations and towering buildings,his two quests in life if beautiful women arent counted.

I always thought he was a cricketer

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450/400 and 500

Originally Posted by 308

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indicates Trumpesque levels of vanity so while new guns are always a good thing, he comes across as a tosser

Also, maybe it's just me but anyone who shoots an elephant is a right arsehole in my books

older bull elephants eventually get too old to have high quality offspring but are big enough to kill the younger bull's so they do get culled. usually via an auction for hunting rights with the meat being given to the local communities. and the hundred's of thousands of dollars going to conservation.

Well these 500 NE dies arrived in the courier new years eve
I have two 500 BPE rifles and now I think I will have to build a full noise 500 nitro express just for the hell of it

Also building a 577 Super Snider so the bigger diameter end is well covered off



But no funds left available for commissioning a portrait with my favorite guns and trophies

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

I can actually confirm 375HnH works well on fallow

It was very boring to use on sheep tho even with hollow points it just went straight through thought i had missed, left a great blood trail tho looked like an arrow went though.

Originally Posted by NRT

I always thought he was a cricketer

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Yip he played stand in 12th man for the New Jersey Salvation Army 3rd Eleven.A well known fact if you're in the loop

I have a memory Robert Dollimore out at Tarawera built a .700 double some years back. I never saw the thing but a few of the locals did, and they commented it was a wondrous thing.
I can't find any referance to it on the internet, so am wondering if he finished it.

Robert had done his time at Pordey's, which some consider to be the equal, if not the superior to Holland & Holland - and he had a good 'eye' for what was right and what was wrong - the homebuilt rifle I had taken along for him to look at being ........... 'a piece of shit'.
I then enjoyed ten minutes of education in which I learned that no one without proper training can envisage, nor build a gun possessing any beauty or worthwhileness - zero exceptions.

I went on to shoot 7 or 8 deer with that piece of 'shit' - that gun never knew it was worthless.


He's dead now - and I'm annoyed I never saw that .700 ................ or even the 'bones of it'.