.450 BP Express (or "I am an idiot")

by AaronB, Friday, December 13, 2024, 08:59 (8 days ago)
edited by AaronB, Friday, December 13, 2024, 09:07

I am an idiot because I would 100% get an NEF Handi-Rifle in .45-70 and rechamber it in .450 Black Powder Express. Then I would tell everyone it was my express rifle.

Never mind about being pretty much comprehensively unable to obtain ammunition. I would cast my own bullets and load my own. Never mind about it giving me absolutely zero objective advantage over the original chambering; objectivity isn't what we're about here.

What it would do is give me reason to own brass, dies, and bullet molds for .450 BP Express, which would in turn justify my subsequent purchase of an Alexander Henry falling-block rifle in said caliber. This rifle would be coon-fingered, cleaned, oiled, polished, fawned over, hung on the wall, and occasionally shot, but in any event it would be a thing of beauty and the end goal of this whole game.

Once the Alex Henry was procured, I would sell off the Handi-Rifle at a bargain-basement rate to any of you fellows that wanted to repeat that process. Think of it as the "enabler" rifle.

-AaronB