Kaliber 7x57

[Santo]

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Originally posted by deerdk

Det er en udbredt misforståelse, at Bell skød flest elefanter med 7x57[] Han nedlagde flest med kal. 318 Westley Richards! Hans største udbytte på en dag var: 19 elefanttyre. Han havde 35 patroner, men 8 af den virkede ikke.. Samtidig havde han patroner tilovers, da de 19 elefanter var nedlagt[]

Mvh erik

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Her må jeg så korigere lidt Bell skød langt de fleste med 7x57 og den identiske .275 Rigby

Citat fra James Pattmore:

He shot exactly 1,011 elephants with a series of six Rigby-made 7x57mm (.275 Rigby) rifles with 173 grain military ammo.
He shot 300 elephants with a Mannlicher-Schoenauer 6.5x54mm carbine using the long 159 grain FMJ bullets.
He shot 200 odd with the .303 and the 215 grain army bullet.
He went to a .318 Westley Richards for a while, which is a cartridge firing a 250 grain bullet at about 2400 fps, but found the ammunition unreliable and returned to the 7mm.
He also recorded that one of the reasons why he favored the 7x57 was that the ammunition was more reliable and he could not recall ever having a fault with it. Whereas British sporting ammunition, apart from the .303 military ammo, gave him endless trouble with splitting cases.
The balance of his elephants were shot with this .318 and his .450/400 Jeffrey double rifle.
He wrote about being able to drop an elephant with a light caliber rifle if he shot it in the same place that he would have shot it with a heavy rifle.
It was unmentioned, but understood, that 7x57 ammunition cost a tenth the price of large caliber .450/400 Jeffrey cartridges and money is always a factor in business.


Mvh

Santo