Recent content by Riflecrank

400-grainers at 2500 fps are perfect in either .416 Rigby or .416 WBY MAG. Working up load from 100-gr of H4831 makes for easy, accurate and low pressure.

Toby458, The beatings shall continue until morale improves. I tried Talley QD-lever rings only because I had some on hand from my ignorant days when I thought vertically split rings were OK: I have busted too many vertically-split Talley rings to mess with them anymore. I also had a Leupold...

That front sight bead was held over the center of the target at 100 yards. Combat bead/coarse bead, covered most of the target. That's OK. I consider the iron sights zeroed with the factory ammo at 100 yards, 350-gr at 2850 fps MV. That'll do. Scope sight zeroing with whatever handloads will be...

Toby458, ditto curt672. Straight stack 3+1, no feed issues. Extractor is robust and AR-style. Beats the hell out of a Remington M700 "C-Clip/Pubic Hair Extractor." A googled parts image: And from an Excellent Brian Pearce article in RIFLE: The Howa extractor is of course like the Weatherby...

Toby458, Consider that the .416 Rigby has "NO Throat" other than a leade that starts at 0.4169" diameter at case mouth and tapers immediately by 0*54'16.5" leade hemi-angle (no Parallel-Sided Free-Bore/PSFB) That is according to SAAMI...

Outstanding work, Jason. Good writing. Good photography. Good folks doing good. Congratulations on your immediate success.

First year Whitworths and Interarms MkX were FN M98 actions, IIRC. Subsequently switched to Zastava actions. All of my Whitworth/Interarms MkX rifles from the 1980s are Zastava M98. The .458 WIN MAG has 3.4" magazine box in short magnum action. The .375 H&H has 3.6" magazine box and action is...

Fordy, Someone has used my handle in vain, with false accusations, so I must reply. Somehow you have confused someone into thinking I was shooting your elephant. The accusation: "Riflecrank ? shame on you for taking a very bad shot on a elephant that could go over the line and not be retrieved...

Fordy instructions: ... go to around the 1hr 25 to 30 minute mark ... DR-shooter Mike joked about doing that double-fire on purpose, even though (obviously) the bullet from the left barrel sailed high, missed the elephant. One bullet in the brain was sufficient. It was a mercy killing of...

Polish the ramp and rails and feed job is complete with the .300 WIN MAG M70 action from Portugal rebarreled to .458 WIN MAG.

Very cool U.S. Enfield 1917 .458 WIN MAG Full Stock. Here is No. 14 of my .458 WIN MAGs, arrived a few months ago, No. 6 Pac-Nor Sporter contour of 26" length and 1:10" twist, on a Portuguese Winchester M70 donor rifle: I doubt this will become a regular production item, but above box label...

Snowwolfe is referring to this Custom Shop model: Custom Shop 2006 by SN. A call to BACO/WINCHESTER at 800-333-3288 is required to track down those M70 Classics by serial number.

Sir Jerry sent ammoporn with redeeming social value: Bertram Brass does good for .577 NE 3". Note the resemblance to .45-90 2.4" loaded with 350-gr/.458-cal TSX-FB bullets, scaled up to 750-gr/.585-cal TSX-FB in 3" brass. Heh-heh-heh.

Made me laugh, so true. Add North Fork, CEB and Hammer Bullets to that list. List is getting pretty long.

50Gunner, aka "Ser Jerry" of the Square Table, has been my collaborator for over 5 years as we confirmed each other's findings in working up loads for the .458 WIN MAG. Here is the pinnacle of .458 WIN MAG do-all, his handloads: The Shock Hammer is now called the Stone Hammer, maybe...