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The .500 BPE was never highly regarded for hunting in Africa, [1] yet it was a popular cartridge in India, considered a good general purpose rifle cartridge popular for hunting tigers. [4] Jim Corbett was a user of a .500 BPE rifle prior to switching to a .400 Jeffery Nitro Express double rifle, [ 5 ] shooting cordite Nitro for Black loadings ...
The .500 Nitro for Black Powder cartridge used the same general case type as the .500 Black Powder Express but was loaded with cordite instead of black powder and appeared on the scene sometime in the 1890s. The cartridge was intended for firearms designed to fire the .500 Black Powder Express and pressures were kept low enough to operate ...
The .577/500 No. 2 BPE was developed as a black powder round some time before 1879 by necking down the .577 Black Powder Express to .507-inches (12.9 mm) [2] for use in single or double rifles, as well as a variety of Martini-based lever rifles.
.500 Black Powder Express.500 Jeffery.500 Nitro Express.500 S&W.500 Bushwhacker.500/450 Magnum Black Powder Express.502 Thunder Sabre.505/.404 Stewart.510 Beck.577/450 Martini–Henry.577/500 Nitro Express.577/500 No 2 Black Powder Express.505 Gibbs.510 DTC Europ.510 Whisper.55 Boys.56-56 Spencer.575 Miller & Greiss; 20/577 Alexander Henry.577 ...
The .500/450 No. 1 Nitro for Black was the same cartridge loaded with mild loadings of cordite, carefully balanced to replicate the ballistics of the black powder version. Unlike other similar black powder cartridges, such as the .450 Black Powder Express and .500/450 Magnum Black Powder Express, the .500/450 No. 1 Express never became a Nitro ...
The .500/450 Nitro Express is a rimmed bottlenecked cartridge designed for use in 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 at over 2,175 feet per second (663 m/s). [1]