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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 handloading dies in Rapid City in 2003. I also got the CH4D CannTool, a robust little hand tool to mount to the reloading bench. Works like a charm on .510-caliber...

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 back to IMR-4350. I also switched from RL-15 to Varget due to the better Thermo-Ballistic-Indepence and less lot-to-lot variability. RL-17 is a great newer...

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 seating depth you may have less air space in the case, less need for a filler, higher pressure than what you would get just from the extra weight of bullet. Never...

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 touted 105 grains of H4831 with any 400-ish-grainer in the .416 Rigby. I tried 5 different bullets from 380-grains to 410 grains with that powder charge, they...

Hunter-Habib, Thanks for taking the time to spell all that out. This web site is a very interesting blend of wisdom and dumbassery. Always amusing. The ".450 S. Rigby" was the first of the class of cartridges (later to be known as Nitro Express) to survive proof in a set of barrels for a...

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 was with either RCBS neck expander in two steps (.30-375 then .375 -.45) or with simply blowing it out in fire-forming. That increase in bullet diameter from...

I apologize for this meme from 2012: The Fifty Aught Twelve = .500 Bateleur The Fifty Aught Eight = .500 Mbogo The Forty Aught Seven = .395 Tatanka The Thirty Aught Six = Started this family of cartridges a century earlier.

To make it easy to find: https://www.africahunting.com/threads/500-schuler-magazine.64294/ Vertical, non-staggered, "straight" stack, no problemo. The Weatherby MKV depends on sheet metal feed lips at the top of its box, and a very thin, flat follower, for carts of 460 WbyMag head and rim...

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 of Norma made into feed dummies. Might go with Bertram if that is all I can find.

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 the kink. Theoretically the rebated rim and short neck are problems for a DG cartridge. That put me on the trail of other Five Hundreds. But a riflecrank has...

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 Improved of Sanchez-Arino & Wolf is truly non-rebated, that means a rim diameter of 0.619" maximum. The .505 Gibbs is a huge 0.640" for both rim and case head. No, I...

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. Where the B&M case really shines in a WSM-length action is with .458-caliber bullets.

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 anymore for the CZ 550 Magnum rifle. They are so low that the Leupold 2.5x20 ocular bell size is the only thing small enough to allow the bolt to be worked...

Here is the Duane Wiebe .500 Jeffery bottom metal for a standard Mauser 98, allowing just over 3.500" inside length of the magazine, shown on an FN Mauser that started as a Herter's .30-06, but hey, a .500 Jeffery reamer would clean up the .500 Bateleur chamber just fine, heh-heh-heh: Two...