Comments on: 2 bore rifle photos

By: Mehul Kamdar

Mehul Kamdar — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:15:00 +0000

Steve,

Of course, you’re absolutely right on the useability of this rifle. The owner will be hunting buffalo in Africa with it shortly and we should have the pictures up after his hunt. It’s nice to see so much interest in this project and my thanks are especially to you for writing about it here.

Whoever has doubts about Steve’s guns being “only models” is welcome to help with sighting them in, ha, ha! Reality hits really hard (pun wholly intended here) when someone shoots one of these monsters even once. With almost twice the muzzle energy of a 600 Nitro Express load with a full charge in this 2 Bore, it should kick quite a bit.

Good hunting, gentlemen!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:07:17 +0000

airjammer, it is 100% real. This type of gun has been used for at least 150 years.

By: airjammer

airjammer — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:05:29 +0000

cant be a gun thats useable but has a cool look….prolly just some kind of model

By: dippy

dippy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:42:34 +0000

Well, If that’s what your in to. More power to ya. If I’m going to make something with that big of a bore, I’ll machine a cannon

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:58:49 +0000

Mehul, thanks for the info. I think your forums are great and really enjoy browsing them!

By: Mehul Kamdar

Mehul Kamdar — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:37:09 +0000

Hi,

Just thought I’d let you know that this rifle was built by Steve Zihn, a personal friend of mine and a gunsmith in Wyoming who specializes in high grade muzzleloading rifles and in Mauser based bolt action sporters. This particular rifle was commissioned by a big bore rifle enthusiast in Southern Illinois who hopes to hunt in Africa with it.

Thanks for visiting the Nitro Express forums and referring to us here. It is a pleasure to have our forums mentioned on an excellent blog.

Good hunting!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:19:55 +0000

Bill, I am not sure, I think he was building it himself.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:09:06 +0000

How much did he pay for that 2 bore

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:53:40 +0000

I’m in Canada and I’m a pretty big man. That’s not anything I’d want to shoot more then once. If, and I mean if you hit anything. You’d have to sponge up the pieces. That’s going to leave a mark (both ends)

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:06:14 +0000

wow 2gauge. That’s pretty BA. if you are worried about stopping power this is the thing for you.

By: DJK

DJK — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:43:25 +0000

I’m pretty sure that thing should be emplaced and crew served.

By: Billll

Billll — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:44:53 +0000

A friend of mine has a 2-bore, 26″ barrel, 26 lb wt, and yes, 275-325 gr of ffg under 1/2lb lead packs a mighty wallop.
He got the thing from a fellow who said he used it to hunt Moose in Canada with it using 500g of powder. All I can think is that he must have been Paul Bunyans long lost brother.