deewayne2003
AH legend
Lot of wisdom packed into what he’s saying and he could have gone on another two pages about it.
I literally stumbled across my .470 and it’s worked out well for me, my first ever African animal was a tuskless at 12 paces with a double.
My .470 kicks much less than the .458’s I’ve shot particularly because it’s appropriately weighted at 10lbs 14oz with red dot and the recoil reducers in the stock & Kickeez recoil pad; but also because of the custom load it was regulated with that uses IMR3031 powder.
My rifle shoots this custom load amazingly- my avatar pic is a R&L group at 50yds with iron sights but will also shoot Hornady factory ammo to the same point of impact and give 1” groups.
The Hornady factory loads have MUCH more recoil and listen to what @rookhaw said about ammo - you better buy loads of it and store it airtight and climate controlled if you want it to last for generations.
Also consider if your not used to a double your probably going to need 200+ rounds of ammo to get proficient, or at least I did.
Now Hornady .470 is nearly $300 per 20, but I can load full power practice loads with old stock Hornady unbonded bullets for about $50 per 20, Woodleigh RNSN for $85 per 20 and Hydro solids for $150 per 20.
But like ammo if you load your ammo, you need to buy components in mass and same lot# to ensure consistency, when I bought my .470ne and tested the load data, I immediately bought an 8lbs jug of IMR3031, a 1,000ct brick of primers dedicated solely to the .470, 500 Woodleigh RNSN & 500 Hornady DGX.
May sound like a lot but that 8lbs of powder is enough for 700rnds and it’s half empty.
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