Thread: Oldest active hunting rifle

Originally Posted by csmiffy

There is a p14 bsa sporter in 45/70 in retardme at the moment.
100 year old rifle with a 150 year old cartridge but it isnt a sharps.
That would be quite a cool one

@csmiffy Back at the start of the 80's l was a 20yr old on my first overseas trip shearing in OZ ,at the end of our run we were invited by a TO to head up to Arnhem Land to go hunting & fishing for 3 weeks . Back then from memory they had just repealed a stupid old firearm law in what were still "frontier" places of the top end of the NT & WA, which limited large bores by velocity or it may have even been black powder origin .

This meant the first Buffalo , Scrub Bull & Jesus Taxi l ever shot was with a 1905 Siamese Mauser converted from 8x52R to 45/70 ,with a terrible sportorized stock, these things were loaded to the gills to try to mimic a 458Mag & even after my time shooting a lot of Old School DG rifles in Africa over the years & still using my own 458M, l have owned for 3 decades for the occasional hunt here to keep the eye in ,those fire breathing Siamese 45/70's, loaded to the max were the worst kicking rifle l have ever shot ,they were real tooth rattlers. The local aboriginals used something even worse.