No, Gert, you've got it all wrong!  It needs to be in the T. Rex thumping 5.75mm Velo Dog cartridge!     If Doug's action had been a Brit rather than a Francotte, it could be a 297/230 Morris Extra Long... 


David
Montezuma, IA

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I  hope the craving is for Jeffrey's and not 577 Snider...in one test I did with this rifle after slugging the bore and using groove diameter bullets I was able to get 2 hits out of 20 round at 100 meters vs 1 hit out of 20 at 50 meters. I said hits, on a 1 meter square target board.  Hum maybe the reason I got more hits at the longer range was the bullets were starting to stablize!!!     

I  hope the craving is for Jeffrey's and not 577 Snider...in one test I did with this rifle after slugging the bore and using groove diameter bullets I was able to get 2 hits out of 20 round at 100 meters vs 1 hit out of 20 at 50 meters. I said hits, on a 1 meter square target board.  Hum maybe the reason I got more hits at the longer range was the bullets were starting to stablize!!!    


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Well as the saying goes, there's no accounting for taste. So i confess; the Snider chambering tipped me over the edge. You gents have  experience with the Snider round and I am just starting and I may be  delusional. Some rifles just refuse to  shoot acccurately but i believe most can be coaxed to produce at least a modicum of accuracy - at least for their intended purpose. Some are like fickle women and require more wooing than others. Ross Seyfried wrote in DOUBLE GUN JOURNAL of a Snider chambered double which defied every effort until loaded with hardened round balls! To most such guns are probably more trouble than they are worth. At least it can be fun to read of someone else's masochism.