![]() ![]() This particular gun weighs in at 27 pounds and has proved capable of putting all its bullets in one hole at 50 yards. Small wonder, since that is eight times the powder charge and 5.75 times the bullet weight of a standard 12 bore (12 Gauge) Brenneke slug. One shot reduced it to kindling, to everyone’s amazement. Giles was shooting at the Queen’s estate at Sandringham at the time, and fired it into a two-foot by two-foot block of seasoned English oak that axes bounced off. At this point, the recoil has become dangerous to the shooter. Giles Whittome is the only man to ever have fired a 24-dram load with a 2500-grain slug, and he says he will never do that again. ![]() The elaborately decorated grip cap is typical of this masterpiece of the engraver and inlayer’s art. That has proved too much for humans to survive, so the standard load is a 2,500-grain lead slug with 20 drams of #6 black powder. The maximum load is a 3,500-grain lead slug backed by 24 drams of #6 black powder. This certainly is a proper size rifle for a Tyrannosaurus Rex to use if he were to go gunning for Brontosaurus. The latest rifle is a high art piece with green-gold inlays of Tyrannosaurus Rex for a repeat customer. Tyrannosaurus on the massive side of the 2 bore action. ![]() Kinda makes you wonder just what HAVE they brought back. We know they have been trying to clone the wooly mammoth. Since the first announcement of the availability of a monstrous, 2 bore rifle in the 2010 Gun Digest, British Best Quality gun maker Giles Whittome has been turning out a steady stream of them as fast as he can make them. ![]()
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