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Russians? There were Bear in the Carpathians and Trans-Sylvanian Alps...still are and they kill people every year even now, Hello Argo44 Thanks for the reply. I have just now checked for choke in the 16ga shotgun barrel. It is Imp cyl at .656 ... with such slight choke, only .006, erhaps it might have been intended for "ball" also.
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Good eye there Mr. Neuberger and to a tip of the hat to you Jani, but I for one would expect that expertise from you.
Leopold Wurzinger, Büchsenmacher VII, Kaiserstraße 100
From an 1873 listting.
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buckstix, See my comments in the GGCA Forum: re the corrected dimension on the chamber cast photo. Mike
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Good eye there Mr. Neuberger and to a tip of the hat to you Jani, but I for one would expect that expertise from you. Leopold Wurzinger, Büchsenmacher VII, Kaiserstraße 100 From an 1873 listting. Serbus, Raimey rse Hello ellenbr, Thanks for the reply. I will keep this information with the provenance folder for this gun. buckstix, See my comments in the GGCA Forum: re the corrected dimension on the chamber cast photo. Mike Hello Der Ami, Thanks for the reply. As with most of my collectables, I have adapted a case for this one. link to picture of custom case. .
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buckstix, I couldn't get the photo to open up, but I saw the nice case on the GGCA Forum. Mike
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Hello Der Ami, Thanks for the reply.
I also listed a link ... .. try that.
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buckstix, The link worked. Nice case to go with a nice rifle. Mike
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Hello Der Ami, Thanks for the reply. With the rifle caliber on this Cape Gun being so obsolete, and with brass for it being non-existent, and because I shoot all of my collectables, I came up with a simple solution. I rented a 450 bpe reamer for $35, and reamed the 11.6x82R chamber by hand. It took less than 30 minutes, and I now had a 450 bpe chamber. All the reamer did was to remove the sweeping taper in the middle of the chamber. That amounted to only about .010". The reamer also cut the rim thickness and diameter to standard dimensions. I have 3 other 450 bpe rifles, and tons of that brass and bullets. Tomorrow I go to the range for shooting.
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buckstix, See the comments I already wrote on the GGCA forum. At the time, I didn't know you already had 3 450 BPE's. You are still entitled to do it; but "Aw man", you could have had an 11.6x82R, there are da-n few people that have one. Mike
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A practical solution, and if it pleases the owner so be it.
I would have been inclined to modify a few cases instead of the rifle.
I've been following this with the question about why this caliber was created in the first place.
Is it because no self respecting Austrian would build a rifle for a British caliber?
Is it to prevent the .450 from being chambered due to load/pressure differences? Or bullet weight/type?
Was it to comply with some kind of legislation?
Perhaps to control ammunition supply to the maker or country?
Is this lost to history someplace or does anyone know?
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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