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Any of you willing to make a suggestion on which powder is the best starting place for getting a 400 gr pill to 2122fps (4000 ft-lbs) in the .400 Whelen? I’ve been trying to get there with CFE223 and TAC. Coming close with CFE223 (made it to 2087fps) but I’m already at/slightly above the...

Anybody in the .400 Whelen crowd tried loading the .410 190 gr. Hornady FTXs? Seems like quite a few folks have done various 210 gr pistol bullets.. curious if anybody has tried the 190’s.

I’ve been wanting to try the .416 350 gr Speers sized down, but those things are darn near impossible to find. Have in-stock notifications set up a few places, hopefully they show up eventually. Thanks for the heads up on that .30-06 basic brass. I’ll give those a try. I had Hornady make me a...

Grandpa is a retired gunsmith with his shop mostly still set up. I usually bring a pile of parts and put something together with him when we go visit a couple times a year. He’s showed me just enough of how to run his lathe and stock duplicator to get myself by. Grandpa’s lathe came from the...

I’ve only tried the 300 gr Hornady slugs so far. They fed fine, sorta. Originally had some trouble with the magazine box/follower retaining the first round I’d press into it. Once I stacked a second round on top, it would stay down, and the third and fourth rounds stayed in just fine. The first...

Hoping to revive this thread.. I’m new to posting on this forum, but have enjoyed reading and learning from many of you who are obviously subject matter experts on the .400 Whelen and a wide variety of other topics. In short, you convinced me to build a .400 Whelen, and I couldn’t be more...