fuhrmann:
You can define the subject platform as stout as you fancy, but you are not going to stuff a 600 Nitro Express round n the chamber, ignite it & get favourable results. Just not going to happen.
Almost daily I tote a 24 Bore and 500 Express Biks made in Ferlach in 1911. Now who in the world in 1911 orders a 500 Express in 1911, less some eccentric, possibly Bohemian? The Borovlje in Ferlach made the Lefuša and subsequent hammergun platforms with metal buttplates for thrashing game well past WWI as their clients too held on to the past or were difficult to convert / convince of the new fangled platforms. 24 ammo is quite common as Italy must be lush with 24 bores, but they are not 3". But whomever ordered the 24 bore X 500 Express, of which I am a custodian, in 1911 had a specific purpose.
I am confident that a Jäger @ the Diana Hunt Club in Berlin didn't order the subject hammerless Collath 24 Bore DR to dispatch boars. Rather the Collath client had some purpose for the 3" chambering. Why not 40mm? What did the extra length out to 3" get you? Had it been a purpose of common nature, we would all be custodians of 3" 24 Bores?
Now you are most correct on the evolution of hunting technology and I am not sure that the average Jäger could afford the subject hammerless Collath platform, much less the ammo.
Serbus,
Raimey
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