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Congratulations on a beauty! Varget works really well in mine. See if you can get your hands on Woodleigh's reloading manual. It has a fair amount of data. Raven Rock had them last I checked. Good luck!

I have used the 160 AF's in my Ruger #1 .280 REM. 2875. One hole 3 shot groups at 100 yds. Devastating on deer/pigs. I seated to cannelure so, I know I had a lot of freebore.

I bought primers from them without issue. Shipping costs weren't insane then.

Congratulations on a beautiful buff. Johnny is a prince of a guy. My son and I had a long conversation with him at DSC. I'm guessing that you're happy with the Taylor?

The 180 gr NAB @ 2400 is mean on wildebeest- ANY plains game for that matter. Will smoke a big bull eland, She'll be good to at least 250 yds and probably 300 as far as expansion goes (IIRC NAB's expand to 1800-1900 fps impact velocity). My African experience is that heavy for caliber well...

The Taylor will do anything big game that you wish or need to do. Mine runs 2375-2390 with 400 gr pills. How many buffs have died from those exact ballistics in 404 J, 416 RM or 416 Rigby. Along with less powder and recoil.

416 Taylor 400 gr HDGX range loads. 375 Whelen 300 gr AF

I was there Saturday. I was in ATL in February. My estimation is that it was a little less than half the size of the winter show!

Doug, as stated above, .458WM brass has been unobtanium for a year at least.

Been that way for a year. I'm resorting to using 338WM for my 416T. (Proper head stamp 416T is >$4.00/pc. I'll save that for Africa!). Good luck!

Mine loves the 400 AF. This is a 5 shot function test:

Damn, for$3K I better be doing a whole lot of canneluring!

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You are very right about rebarreling the Rugers. I did this with a couple of MkII's. A $600 .270 became a .375 Whelen and a $800 .300WM became a .416 Taylor. IMO, the repurposing of a standard length action makes the most economic sense in regards to left hand shooters. Watching the trading...