The .505 Gibbs is a niche cartridge designed for hunting heavy, thick-skinned dangerous game animals, such as cape buffalo, elephant, and rhino.

2012年8月21日 · One of the biggest cartridges chambered in African express rifles is the .505 Gibbs, which was developed in 1911 by riflemaker George Gibbs of Bristol, England. Originally, the .505 Gibbs was...

2020年1月10日 · Let’s compare and contrast the Gibbs and the Jeffery. The voluminous .505 Gibbs was introduced in 1910 by George Gibbs, using a 525-grain of nominal diameter, at an advertised muzzle velocity of 2300 fps for over 6,100 ft.-lbs. of energy.

The .505 Gibbs is a highly specialized cartridge intended as an elephant stopper for hunters who prefer a magazine rifle for this purpose.

2024年7月15日 · The .505 Gibbs started life as a rimmed cartridge for double rifles, but Gibbs turned it into a rimless round for magazine rifles.

The 505 Gibbs is a remarkably well designed cartridge, especially so when considering that it was designed in 1911. George Gibbs initially called it the 505 Rimless Nitro Express, and it was intended to provide major-league dangerous-game stopping power in a bolt-action rifle.

2016年7月7日 · When it comes to what I consider the “big-ass” cartridges, one I really like is the .505 Gibbs. It’s beltless, and factory loads send a massive 525-grain bullet at a muzzle velocity of 2,300 fps for a whopping 6,190 ft.-lbs. of muzzle energy. And for all that power and fury, shooting a .505 Gibbs is not as bad as you might think.

George Gibbs of Bristol, one of England’s foremost rifle specialists, developed the .505 Gibbs to fit into the magnum Mauser action, which Rigby had helped pioneer, with Mauser, for its massive .416 Rigby cartridge in 1911. The Gibbs round resembles a .416 Rigby scaled up, much as a heavyweight boxer is a scaled up middleweight.

2022年11月22日 · The .505 Gibbs, housed in a Magnum Mauser action, with its 525-grain bullet exiting the muzzle at 2,300 fps and delivering 6,100 ft/lbs of energy quickly gained a reputation as an excellent get-out-of-jail card for the professional hunter.

505 GIBBS - 525 TSX (525 gr BARNES TSX Soft - 2,300 fps/ME 6,166 ft-lbs) - 5 Round Box