Posted on 05/08/2006 4:21:39 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Doc, would you mind sharing when and where that chainfire incident happened? I am an artillery reenactor myself, but would like to share any rifle safety information I can get with the apropriate staff in our group. Thanks!
It happened on the Confederate Left Flank at two in the afternoon at the Shiloh reenactment on April 6th, 1987 with the second platoon of Confederate cavalry facing the Federals that were entrenched on the South side of the Sunken Road just Northwest of Thacker Hill.
or is that someone else's firm who does that???
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or is that someone else's firm, who does that???
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One turn in sixteen feet?
That's a pretty slow rate of spin.
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NOT for this guy!! i prefer something with a LOT more PUNCH, like the .444 MARLIN or something LARGER than the relatively PUNY 44MAG.
fwiw, the boar where i'm from frequently weigh about 600 POUNDS dressed & are HARD to stop! my usual hog-gun is a M-1 Garand with 220grain Power-Points! (YEP, my garand has had "a little work done" on the gas system!)
my best hunting pal uses a .458MAG for boar - he is NOT "over-gunned", imVho. truthfully he shoots that old 458, MOD 70 at everything except small game. (as my grandfather used to say: FEAR the ONE gun man, as he is likely an expert with that one gun.)
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And since the tubular feed mechanism was in the rifle's butt, the barrel could be shortened without limiting the number of available rounds. That feature made the rifle particularly attractive to the Pinkerton agents who served as Lincoln's bodyguards, and accordingly my uncle got one so cut down upon his retirement from the Secret Service. 
Where would they get the chrome to do the chamber and barrel?
My hunting buddy used a .44 MAG to drop a boar last November. We had guys kill 'em with Savage .300's, a 7mm 08, and .30.30s. Me, I used a customized .45-70 Marlin Guide gun, firing 350 grain Cor-Bon cartridges. Got two.
Mr. Stand , here in Hawaii the wild boar (and sow) are about half that size , big ones bein in the 300lb range .
Any of the pistol caliber rifles seem to work just fine , and especially with well placed shots at close range . I don't know about the 'well placed' but finding the wild pig here is almost always at very close range. Ultra thick brush/jungle.
If'n I eva came across a 600 pounder I would be up the first available tree and forget about the shot! Wild boar are known to kill and eat people if they get the chance....
A reenactor came in where I work last year with a story of a cannon misfire. His unit was advancing toward a battery, and he noticed they were firing a more rapidly than usual. Then suddenly they were showered with splinters from the sponge rammer.
OUCH! Do you know when and where this happened? I only know of one case of a premature ignition like that at a reenactment and it was several years ago.
i'll stand by my belief that the 44MAG is NOT suitable for boar, at least not the ones i've seen/RAN FROM!/shot!
my cousin shot one 4 times in the chest pointblank last year, which continued to run off, as if he hadn't been hit with a 30-30 SP.
we found him dead/spoiled a week later. he had finally died of bleeding out, with ALL FOUR SPs in an area that you could cover with a playing card, over the heart/lung area!
boars are TOUGH customers.
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in the last few years, a number of hunters/hikers in our county have been injured by boar & 2 died "of wounds".
the last one i "took" weighed 419 field dressed.
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