History In My Hands
04-17-2012, 02:18 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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Location: River Ridge, LA (Suburb of New Orleans)
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History In My Hands
Got a phone call from my sister this morning.
She said, “there’s a guy in my office with a gun you will want to see”.
Her office is only about five miles from my house. So, I grabbed my camera and tape measure and headed over there to spend the next hour holding history in my hands, taking pictures and thinking about long ago times.
Here are the pictures I took. When you get to the last one you will know how I felt.
04-17-2012, 02:29 PM
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Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
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WOW!! that would have been something to just hold. What caliber was that.. .40 or .45? The reason I ask is it looks like a special bore for shooting conical bullets. That is a great rifle. A real honor to just look at.
04-17-2012, 02:43 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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I didn't have anything but a standard tape measure with me. But as near as I could tell with the tape the land to land distance was 15/32" and groove to groove 9/16". But my measurement was by no means precise.
Last edited by Semisane; 04-17-2012 at 08:30 PM.
04-17-2012, 08:07 PM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Penns Woods
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9/16 groove depth (.562) - 15/32 land diameter (.468) = 3/32 (.094) rifling depth!
What the heck did they use for patch material... Rawhide?