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500 Jeffery OAL Help with Hawk Bullets
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With the short neck on the .500 Jeffery, a Lee Factory crimp die is a good idea. I got one sometime after I found those North Devon...
Apr 18, 2024
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Hodgdon H4350
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If you are seeing more listings with IMR-4350 than H4350 then you are probably looking at old data. Since going to H4350 I never went...
Apr 18, 2024
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I would recommend starting off with 95 grains of the IMR-4895 and 113 grains of the IMR-4350 and go up from there. With the deeper...
Apr 18, 2024
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.416 Rigby & .458 Lott - Equal Recoil?
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Ditto. He did not even try H4831/H4831SC with the 400-410 grain bullets, only with 350-grainers. John Buhmiller and Jack O'Connor both...
Apr 14, 2024
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Would a 450 grain .458 Win Mag be a perfectly acceptable standard for elephant?
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Hunter-Habib, Thanks for taking the time to spell all that out. This web site is a very interesting blend of wisdom and dumbassery...
Apr 14, 2024
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IvW, I don’t like the .458 Winchester Magnum anymore than you do, but to be fair… Richard doesn’t attribute those failures to be due to...
Apr 14, 2024
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416 WSM first range trip
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The increase in bullet diameter from .308 to .416 = 35.06% I have never had a problem necking up .338 Lapua Magnum to .458 Thumper. That...
Apr 13, 2024
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Riflecrank
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500 Jeffery Club
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I apologize for this meme from 2012: The Fifty Aught Twelve = .500 Bateleur The Fifty Aught Eight = .500 Mbogo The Forty Aught Seven =...
Apr 13, 2024
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Riflecrank
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500 Jeffery Club
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To make it easy to find: https://www.africahunting.com/threads/500-schuler-magazine.64294/ Vertical, non-staggered, "straight" stack...
Apr 13, 2024
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Riflecrank
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500 Jeffery Club
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I see that Bertram USA has .500 Jeffery brass. Hoping for Norma to go with my other 70 pieces. I have 3 pieces of Bertram and one piece...
Apr 13, 2024
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Riflecrank
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500 Jeffery Club
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Sometimes a proper magazine follower and spring that provides more lift to the rear of the cartridge is all that is needed to sort out...
Apr 13, 2024
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Riflecrank
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500 Jeffery Club
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Good question. The standard .500 Jeffery case has a base/head diameter of 0.619" and rim diameter of 0.575". If the .500 Jeffery...
Apr 13, 2024
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Riflecrank
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416 WSM first range trip
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Yup, the skinny-long .416-caliber bullets might be better off in the shorter WSM case if you need to make it fit into a short action...
Apr 13, 2024
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Slow burning powder and a 23" barrel
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Ontario Hunter, If you are talking about the Warne QD lever rings on the buffalo bosses, those are Warne's LOW, which they do not make...
Apr 12, 2024
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