Greetings folks,
I'm a long time lurker and seldom poster who thoroughly enjoys double guns of all stripes and flavors. I have a small collection of BPE doubles, Drillings and shotguns that was willed to me by my father. I love shooting them and use the load data he provided, which was all either for black powder loads or smokeless for black using cast bullets.
One rifle that I'm trying to work a load up for using the 440 grn RN from Woodliegh is the 577/500 No. 2 BPE Rodda. It's an accurate gun, and I get decent accuracy using 365 grn cast bullets with black powder and smokeless, but the 440's seem like they'd be great to hunt up to elk with. We hunt in timber around Helena, MT - including the Little Blackfoot and Blackfoot valleys & surrounding mountains. Long shots can occur, but creeping through the timber is a lot more fun (until you run in to an angry grizz). I figure the 440 at about 1700 FPS would do well with elk out to 150 yards.
Does anyone have experience with the 577/500 No. 2 and the Woodlieghs? I've found a lot of information about the 500 BPE and this bullet, but very little on the No. 2. Any help would be most appreciated.
Here's a few pics of the Rodda from Calcutta:
Rodda 5 by
Ben Lamb, on Flickr
Rodda 4 by
Ben Lamb, on Flickr
Rodda 2 by
Ben Lamb, on Flickr
Rodda 1 by
Ben Lamb, on Flickr
