.451 Euroarms article.....

The June/July North AMerican Hunter Magazine (on page 68) "The Bruins of La Crete" The author is hunting bears with a "traditional" caplock...

Just FYI :wink:

What's a .451 Wattsy?

GoodCheer said:

What's a .451 Wattsy?

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Hmmm, very unusual calibre for North America - the only .451" I know of were the Whitworth rifles used by the Confederate sharpshooters in the recent WoNA.

Here in the rest of the world the .451" calibre military match rifle is the most common of its kind.

Parker-Hale made both the two and three-band Volunteer rifles in this calibre, as well as the hexagonal-bored Whitworth replication. Others have since succeeded their now-defunct production with inferior copies [my opinion].

tac
Supporter of the Cape Meares Lighthouse Restoration Fund

Yeah, was kinda wondering if maybe it was something like the Volunteer. There's not much reason for cartidge cases if you have a well built rifle of that sort. The muzzleloading technology developed immediately prior to the advent of military repeaters easily covers most hunting. And it's fun too.

GoodCheer said:

What's a .451 Wattsy?

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:haha: I didnt write the artice nor shoot the gun...Just repoerting the facts... :haha: :thumbsup:

euroarms still makes both the whitworth and the volunteer rifles. they are made on the parker hale tooling and are both good rifles and good shooters. i know, i have a whitworth.