Recent content by michael458

@Altitude sickness ................ Will always stand tall in my eyes.......... Two Buffalo, One Shot........ My Hero, and even if it is a Rat caliber .416........... HEH HEH.........

Yeah, yesterday I had a look for a Lehigh Extreme in .510........ does not existe....... .500 caliber and .458 caliber..... that is the big bores...... I would like to see some field work on this one sometime. The test work is "Extreme" LOL.......... All good........ Yep, Raptor at the top...

Will do! HEH....... and, don't talk to me about anything less than .416 caliber please, if you do, I just look the other way and have nothing to say.......... I don't do anything with Rat calibers, I don't want to know anything about rat calibers, I don't care about rat calibers, and 416 is low...

OK Fordy, need some more detail on just exactly how this bullet failed........ OK, from this, I am thinking a point on the shoulder shot animal not fully facing, but at an angle, point of shoulder, hitting the big knuckle ............ Right? Then the bullet angling off to the far side...

Yep...... I have those tests. However I am not satisfied with either test to be honest. Basic results are that the 400 #13 Solid does out penetrate the 400 Hydro at around 2300 fps. The 400 Hydro test was 1 bullet, and I have a bug in my butt that there were some anomalies I can't account...

https://www.africahunting.com/threads/scope-reliability.90419/

M71 High Grade 50 B&M Alaskans....... Matching Serial #s.................

For sure, the meplat size is not stable, and this absolutely causes the bullet to veer. There has to be something in that alloy that allows them to bend like that, this one shown, not the only specimen. Sam had one do the same thing, I have heard of others with the exact same issue. I have...

Loading a few 500 MDMs.......... 500 #13 Solids, 95/H-4895, 2416 fps................500 caliber

The photo was sent by a friend here on AH. He was forced to use Factory ammo last year for his buffalo hunt. This was Factory Federal Solids..... I call them Noslers, Trophy Bonded Solids..... meplat is way too small, causing instability, bullet turns just the slightest and hits bone or...

Sam used them in the old days long before the current CEB #13s......... He complained they turned into bananas. I have never used one. I think we tested some at one point. Recently, last year, one of the guys right here used one on buffalo in 458 Winchester, he sent this photo to me; I...

What will feed reliably easily will be the worst for terminal performance ............Which you already mentioned, the RN. Flat Nose Solids with Less than 65% meplat of caliber will feed better, but only slightly better than the RN in terminal performance if any. Less than 65% meplat is not...

I am good friends with JD Jones. JD told me about the times they would all pack up and head to Australia for those culling shoots, donkey, buffalo, camel and what have you. They really could not take enough ammo and always ran out at some point, no matter how much they took. They were doing...

I think you are in for a good lesson. Fordy has taken more game in a month than you have in your entire life...........

Fordy...... that is a correct statement, the higher velocity of these big solids makes a huge "Impact", pun intended..... This elephant heart was actually criss crossed by two separate solids. This was a .500 caliber 510 gr copper solid I was using in 50 B&M. This was zero dark thirty...