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    The .500 Black Powder Express was a series of Black powder cases of varying lengths that emerged in the 1860s. The cartridge was offered in several case...
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    transition into the smokeless powder era. The .500 Black Powder Express, as the name indicates was designed for use with black powder. It is unknown as to who...
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    450/400 Black Powder Express, .500 Black Powder Express and .577 Black Powder Express cartridges with cordite, creating the .450/400 Nitro Express, .500 Nitro...
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  • Mossberg 500, a shotgun Smith & Wesson Model 500, a revolver Ultimate 500, a revolver .500 Black Powder Express (rifle) .500 Bushwhacker (revolver) .500 S&W...
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    The .577/500 No. 2 Black Powder Express, also known as the 12.7mm British No. 2, is a British centerfire fire rifle cartridge. The .577/500 No. 2 BPE was...
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    500 A-Square .500 Auto Max .500 Black Powder Express .500 Jeffery .500 Nitro Express .500 S&W .500 Bushwhacker .500/450 Magnum Black Powder Express ...
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    The .500/450 No. 1 Black Powder Express, known in its day as the .500/450 No. 1 Express, was a centerfire rifle cartridge developed by Westley Richards...
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  • single-shot and double rifles. It is based on the old black-powder .500/450 Magnum Black Powder Express. It fires a .458-inch (11.6 mm) 480-grain (31 g) projectile...
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  • The .500/450 3+1⁄4-inch Magnum Black Powder Express, is a centerfire rifle cartridge developed in Britain. The .500/450 Magnum BPE was created by necking...
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    450 Black Powder Express .500/450 No 1 Black Powder Express .500/450 Magnum Black Powder Express .500 Black Powder Express .577/500 No 2 Black Powder Express...
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  • variant of the .577/500 Black Powder Express with smokeless cordite. The latter was developed by necking down the .577 Black Powder Express to .508". Whilst...
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    Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 rifle. The cartridge is very similar to the .500 Black Powder Express. This round was introduced by Winchester 3 years after the Sharps...
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  • big-game rifle cartridge .500 Whisper, a subsonic rifle cartridge .500 Black Powder Express, a black powder rifle cartridge .500, an even winning percentage...
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  • The .577 Black Powder Express is a series of black powder cartridges of varying lengths including 21⁄2-inch, 23⁄4-inch, 3-inch and 31⁄4-inch. The .577...
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    Black Powder Express cartridges were black powder rifle cartridges introduced in the United Kingdom in the 1880s. The .450/400 Black Powder Express cartridges...
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  • moving to his famous .275 Rigby. Jim Corbett switched from a .500 Black Powder Express to a W.J. Jeffery boxlock double rifle in .400 Jeffery NE which...
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    450/400 Black Powder Express, the extremely popular .450 Black Powder Express, the .500 Black Powder Express, and the .577 Black Powder Express, all with...
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    Gunpowder (redirect from Black powder)
    Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. It consists of...
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  • the standard load was comparable to the contemporary British .500 Black Powder Express. It is sufficient for elk, deer, moose, and bear at medium ranges...
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    Historically, many black powder pistols fired bullets with diameters well above a half inch. However, following the development of smokeless powder, the focus...
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  • Benign prostatic hyperplasia, benign prostate enlargement .500 Black Powder Express (.500 BPE) Borated polyethylene, a lightweight neutron absorber Byte...
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    of black powder, a .577 Nitro Express double rifle by Westley Richards, two .500 Nitro Express double rifles by Lang and Holland & Holland, a .500/465...
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  • respective black-powder .577 Black Powder Express cartridges. The .577 Nitro Express 2+3⁄4-inch [70 mm] is a conversion of the .577 Black Powder Express 2+3⁄4-inch...
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    game. Elephant guns were black powder muzzle-loaders at first, then black powder express rifles, then later used smokeless powder cartridges. As Europeans...
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  • Nitro Express was the first Nitro Express cartridge, developed around 1898 by John Rigby. This cartridge was based on the then popular .450 Black Powder Express...
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  • respects the Model 1886 was a true American express rifle, as it could be chambered in the more powerful black powder cartridges of the day, proving capable...
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  • (American English), is an obsolete caliber used commonly in the 19th-century black-powder firearms for hunting large dangerous game. An 8 bore is a .835 in (21...
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  • Express .41 Remington Magnum .414 Super Magnum .440 Cor-Bon .44 Remington Magnum .445 Super Magnum .45 Super .45 Winchester Magnum .45 Black Powder Magnum...
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  • the Hercules Powder Company following the breakup of the DuPont explosives monopoly by the U.S. Circuit Court in 1911. Hercules Powder Company became...
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  • cordite, rifles used gunpowder (black powder) as a propellant. Due to the slow burn characteristics of black powder, it did not produce high pressures...
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