458 win mag

[win71]

Oh boy. Is anybody else interested in shooting “Big” bores? For as long as I can remember, and that goes back to 1955, recoil has never bothered me. Currently I reload and semi regularly shoot 300rum, 375 h&h, 405 win. and 416 rem mag. Last year I got a 458 win mag mod 70. I’m not saying I need or hunt with any of these rifles that are over 30 caliber. But I really like to load and shoot them. I have used the 375 with 270 gr. bullets for elk but a 30-06 would have worked almost as well.
Couldn’t locate 458 bullets, and cases were almost nonexistent, so I bought 4 boxes of Hornady 500 gr. Two with soft points and two with solids. I have or will have brass now.
With the 458 and open sites an eight inch rock at 50 yards turns into gravel. And I like shooting it, albeit I was standing. I am not too sure how I will shoot it off a bench but I’ll be hanging on to everything!
Anybody else load, shoot, and hunt with something like a 45-70 and buy and shoot a 45-120 just because?

 

[horsemen61]

Thanks for sharing while I haven't gotten into the big bore craze yet I think it's cool

 

[Robert]

my 375H&H M70 with 270gr Barnes bullets is one hell of an accurate rifle. I have put 3 rounds into an area the size of my hand at 500y from a seated position with this rifle.

I have shot my friends 470NE and 404 Jeffery. The 470NE was fun but the 404 was a shoot all day long kind of rifle. Oh yeah, then there is my 45-70 lever gun.

 

[browningguy]

Yes, we used to have a group here that had an annual big bore hunt, nothing under .375 H&H allowed. They work really well on pigs and deer. I'll have to admit to not shooting my .458 lately, but I shoot a Browning 1885 with some hot loaded 45-70's that are inching into the .458 area, mostly 350 gr. at 2400 FPS.

 

[win71]

Robert

My first 375 was a Ruger #1. I gave it to my youngest son when I found a used Colt Sauer 375. That rifle shoots almost as simply and easy as my pre 64 300 h&h magnum.
This 458 lets you know you pulled the trigger but it is not terrible. Mostly straight back with little barrel up deflection. In a panic I'm certain I could put 3 rounds in an 8" paper plate at 50 yards in close to or less than 8 seconds. With practice I think most could do better than that.
Thanks for your comment......Ron

 

[Willie Sutton]

Big bores are fun.

Have a .450 Nitro Express double rifle (A John Wilkes made in 1903, identical to the one that John "Pondoro" Taylor used), several 9.3x74's, a nice .458 built on a Model 70 action that I bought from Eric Chinn before he passed away, a .375 H&H on a Mauser action (I guess both it and the 9.3's are really "Medium Bores" but who's counting?) and finally a prewar Suhl Mauser Express Rifle built by August Schuler in 11.2x72 that came back from India in the 50's when elepant hunting there ended. Sold a .460 Weatherby, never liked the thing but that's just me. Prefer classic rifles.

I reload for them all, and enjoy them immensely.




But... those are all peashooters compared to this:

I'm having Ed Hubel build me a .585HE on a 1917 Enfield action at present, set up as an Express Rifle. That'll be a real thumper... See this:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=731227

Can't wait to get it to the range.




Willie

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[Walkalong]

I also have a .458 Win Mag just for fun. As far as big bores go, the recoil isn't all that heavy, but it is enough to get ones attention for sure.

 

[jmr40]

They can be fun. I kept a 45-70 around for about 40 years to scratch the big bore itch. I've also owned 35 rem, 44 mag, 338-06, and 35 Whelen in the past, not true big bores, but bigger than 30cal. I've had the opportunity to shoot some, the 416 Rigby was probably the one that interested me the most.

I don't fault those who enjoy such things. In my younger days I was a prolific gun trader and I've owned just about everything out there at one time or another. Many just to give something a try. But I'm at the point where I've gotten rid of everything but the basics that just work for me.

 

[dagger dog]

Sighting in a scoped 12 GA pump with Breneke slugs makes me start flinching if it takes over 5 or six rounds.

But yet I can shoot my Ruger MKVT 308 just about all day long, I believe it's the stock that fits me better .

I shoot a almost 8 pound H&R Buff Classic off shooting sticks with some 460 grain bullets, but put that gun on a bench and all the fun goes away.

I bet those 458's thump pretty good !