Inovative Hunting Big Bore AIr Rifles

[leftcoast1]

Its not the coding on the site. the site is down. Jack has be revamping his big bore rifles trying to get away from the QB platform. he's been down a while not sure what he's up to.

[melloroadman]

Jack has not made the QB conversions for quite some time . He just offered the rifle again but it apears that he has decided not to make them again . But it looks like he has some kits for the DIY QB ownwe . He has a good line of  made in America self built rifles now . I think he still offers a .25 , 308, .32 , 452 , 457, and .458 caliber . They are not the Qb conversions by any means . I have a 32 and have a .452 on order . The 32 is as good of workman ship as I have seen . It shoots .43 grain round balls at 1148 fps and 100 grain conicals at 900 fps with no mods . Marvin

[RedFeather]

Two things.

1) Lewis and Clark did have an air rifle. It was used for small game and to impress the Indians. No way could it have been considered a big bore for large game.

2) You can't compare rifles to arrows. If the bullet doesn't expand very much, it will only create a narrow wound channel. People think that, since arrow shafts are slender, it's about the same wound channel but that is not how they work. Arrows kill more by internal hemorrhaging. Those blades are rotating and slice through a lot of blood vessels. You can put a .22 bullet through an animal and it will keep going strong. An arrow from a modestly powered bow will kill it, although not on the spot.

Gene, meant no disrespect to your friend. Wish, myself, I had half as much hair as ZZ Top.

[Gene_SC]

LOL Red, I would be glad to donate some of my hair any time..

[melloroadman]

http://www.air-rifle.net/history/history.html

[pindog2000]

i too was looking into big bore rifles but im not a big game hunter and dont think i will venture into that area so ill keep it simple and go small bore aka airforce condor triple A style i like the fact you can fill up 2 or 3 air canisters and take em with you plus a triple A is pushing 80/90 fpe plenty for me if i do venture into bigger il just buy a real deer rifle but for what i plan and need small bore is good enough also roy weid has a nice gallery of custom pcp pistols and rifles im pretty sure he can do big bore if requested.

[RedFeather]

No offense, but a .51 round ball is NOT deadly at 100 yards. The Brown Bess wasn't absolutely deadly at that range (and at approximately three times the weight and high velocity.) The two barrel gun described in the link with the .40 "big game" barrel begs the question "big as in what?" It took a fine shot with a .40 black powder gun to take deer sized game and at short range. Look, I like air guns, too, but the early "big bore" air guns were just not that powerful.