win71
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- Feb 8, 2005
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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?
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?