Post by Junior on Sept 18, 2019 10:55:09 GMT -7
Here a few days ago I was shuffling things around and came to the realization that I have several guns laying around that I have never fired, and decided I better do something about this.
First one up was a Remington 700 safari in 458 win mag that I got for a steal. When I picked this rifle up the front sight was broken off, and is why I got it as cheap as I did because the guy did not think it was fixable. I put a new front sight on it, as well as a Williams reciever sight.
Not having any 458 ammo on hand, I went down to the local ammo whole saler, but at 130 bucks a box I decided to skip out on that. A set of Ebay dies and my trusty lee hand press and I was away.
Loading 500 grain Hornady RN bullets over a case full of varget, I let the first one fly off hand at 100 yards to see if I was on target. Next three I fired prone laying over the hood of my 1974 mack dump truck and they went into a group under 2 inches. Good enough for me. Sighted it on and it's ready for next moose season.
Out of curiosity I fired one round into a stack of spuce blocks and got just over 57" of penetration with the non expanding bullet.
Internet is not cooperating so I will try to get photos up later.
First one up was a Remington 700 safari in 458 win mag that I got for a steal. When I picked this rifle up the front sight was broken off, and is why I got it as cheap as I did because the guy did not think it was fixable. I put a new front sight on it, as well as a Williams reciever sight.
Not having any 458 ammo on hand, I went down to the local ammo whole saler, but at 130 bucks a box I decided to skip out on that. A set of Ebay dies and my trusty lee hand press and I was away.
Loading 500 grain Hornady RN bullets over a case full of varget, I let the first one fly off hand at 100 yards to see if I was on target. Next three I fired prone laying over the hood of my 1974 mack dump truck and they went into a group under 2 inches. Good enough for me. Sighted it on and it's ready for next moose season.
Out of curiosity I fired one round into a stack of spuce blocks and got just over 57" of penetration with the non expanding bullet.
Internet is not cooperating so I will try to get photos up later.
