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    More on the .505 Gibbs and .500 Jeffery

    Jul 04, 2020 3 minutes

    When some “African PH” offerings took off in sales, Norma’s executives were bemused to say the least, and probably the biggest surprise was sales of the .500 Jeffery — a legendary old pachyderm-thumper dating from the 1920s and, until it was displaced by the .460 Weatherby in 1958, billed as the “most powerful magazine rifle cartridge in the world.”

    On paper, the .500 Jeffery fires a 535-grain bullet at 2,400 feet per second, producing 6,800 foot-pounds of

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