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    CZ 550 458 Lott

    Jesus I got hammered with PMs This one will be sold, trying to get to all the PM's, does look like Krish was first.
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    CZ 550 458 Lott

    Oh, and this gun holds 6 down normal loading, not 5, then flip it over and try to jam a 6th in. 6 rounds, and no I don't know if I ever tried 7, but it does 6 just with normal loading. I'm in Northern Minnesota.
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    CZ 550 458 Lott

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    CZ 550 458 Lott

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    CZ 550 458 Lott

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    CZ 550 458 Lott

    Selling CZ 550 458 Lott, this has a Bell and Carlson stock with mercury recoil reducer, I've also used Aluminum Devcon to bed lead in the forearm and butt stock so this is about 12.5lbs. In other words, if you want a lighter gun, you'll want a new stock. I had kept the original wood stock but...
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    Getting into the handgun hunting game. 500 S&W

    I bought a 4" 500 and a couple years back had a custom 1/12 twist barrel put on it, it was also threaded to put a real muzzle brake on it. It now finishes at about 5" with my muzzle brake. You can shoot 500 JRH or 500 S&W short in these, and then there are reduced recoil 500 S&W loads...
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    Bear hunting in Maine

    The average bear shot here in MN is 140lbs. Our DNR talks about having live trapped 800lb black bears. Guy poached one north of that a few years back. I say that because you tend to get this idea that everyone is patient and waiting and killing big things. bear, elk, whatever, but the reality...
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    Hunting Elephant with Super HardCast?

    The biggest thing for me is straight-line penetration. So I test penetration by angling wood and shooting through it. So, say, a 1" thick piece of wood angled at me at 45 degrees, then there may be several inches of nothing, then another piece of wood angle away from me, then something like...
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    Hunting Elephant with Super HardCast?

    There's a 730gr wide flat nose hardcast for the .458s And I know there's a 770gr for the 500NE, 500 Jeff guys, could likely be sized down to 505 Gibbs I would imagine. There is another in 715gr for the 505 as well as for the bigger 500 jeffs and such. Just in case anybody is wondering, I...
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    Best .45 ACP round for black bear protection

    Here's a quick watch, this shows you how to practice for defense against an animal.
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    Article on heavier vs lighter for caliber bullet penetration

    I used the A-frame in discussion because you had it in your testing, so you'd obviously be familiar with it and it was already in the thread, I also use it because it is ubiquitous as far as bonded lead bullets go. Honestly was not trying to do some one-upmanship, wouldn't be having this...
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    Article on heavier vs lighter for caliber bullet penetration

    I think you missed my intent of the second point, the point to which your response started "I am not here to argue." But that's fine, I'm not here to argue either, I'm here to understand the entirety of the performance. So, moving on: To the first point, are you stating that once we are past...
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    Article on heavier vs lighter for caliber bullet penetration

    When testing those 458 raptors in your medium, how far did the petals penetrate? Did you measure that specifically, as that would be what I'd want to know to compare them to an expanded A frame or the like. Essentially, it's the "expanded" damage wound channel length, past that is just the...
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    458 Lott Ammo Deal

    Opticsplanet has a good deal going on right now. I have no affiliation with them.
 
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