200grn FACTORY loads
1. 2863 fps
2. 2807
3. 2847
4. 2849
5. 2830
Krochus, the man is talking about a bear gun, and you're talking about bullets with a SD worse than a thin dime, which wouldn't penetrate an inch & half of bear hide, but just blow a big surface hole. Get real. You're doing the man a huge disservice. Pistol rounds, now matter how powerful, and no matter how fast you can push the gimmicky flying dime loads made up to sell them to suckers, are horrible performers
compared to RIFLE rounds with RIFLE bullets.
He didn't say anything about plinking.
He is not limited to pistol rounds in other states. He could get a .30-06 fercripessake. Sure a .45-70 in level 2 or 3 loadings is on the order of 5-10 times of a better choice than a .460 for bear due to using RIFLE bullets, but a .30-06 is even better than .45-70, because it gives you more range as well as all the killing power and good SD/penetration/bullet selection.
Frankly, reaming that gun to .460 is about the stupidest idea that you could come up with in that particular situation - really, krochus, c'mon.... Get a T/C Venture in .270, .30-06, etc., for other states if you're on a budget and have a 2nd nice rifle, and don't mess up a nice No. 1 with some harebrained idea. Believe me, I've had my share of harebrained ideas, so
now I'm pretty good at spotting them (ya know, takes a thief to know a thief kind of thing).
For criminy's sake, PM me for actual GOOD info, bogus mccall. Keep listening to nonsense if you like wasting money and learning things the hard way.
.454 casull makes sense if it's the bigget round you can shoot in that state. But to ream to something that's NOT legal to hunt with in your home state, at a moderately high cost, as well as a slight risk of screwing it up, just in order to:
(a) Actually
CREATE a risk of having the ringing issue causing you to blow yourself up with .460, (which is a real risk because if you're a legal hunter, we KNOW that you'll be shooting a LOT of .454 in that gun, which is what creates the ring - Do NOT trifle with 65K psi chamberings, kids), and
(b) Getting a marginally (arguably) better, but still relatively weak pistol round (relative to what's legal in other states), only with slightly more velocity than the .454, just in order to accomplish the "just one" rifle for multiple situations setup.
Just don't make any sense! There ain't
no need for a "just one" - get two rifles! If you can afford a quad scope and a #1, you can afford two rifles & scopes, espec. saving the $$ on the reaming job.
In fact, shooting a factory 200 gr .460 load at ANYTHING - deer, bear, younameit, but especially a bear - is a far worse idea than shooting the same critter with a good factory .454 Casull round, because the Casull bullet will be a 240-300 or heavier, with a better SD, and going a bit slower -- BOTH of which factors offer better penetration independently, and when combined, offer up a synergy that will result in exponentially better penetration than that 200 gr flying dime, and therefore be an exponentially better choice. Now granted, a *heavy* .460 load will do just fine on any number of game. But why limit your trajectory to a basketball-like one in other states when you could get a full-house bottlenecked round? Lookit, is the gunsmith gonna tell you "this is stupid"? No, because they wouldn't get a payday that way. But he's thinking it, and I'm tellin what he's thinking. Bah - do what you want, but I've said my piece - mark my words and makes yer choices.