Originally Posted by 458Win
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And with cast bullets it can be loaded to slow 45-70 ballistics and makes pleasant plinker and great whitetail hunting round.

I think there would be a great many more 458 win rifles sold is there were more people with experience handloading the 458 win with the lighter bullet weights at moderate velocities.
I purchased a remington custom shop 458 win mag rifle for about 2/3rds of what the original; owner paid and got a box of factory winchester ammo with 500 grain bullets and an empty 20 cases, which I was assured was the full extent of its previous use as the original owner decided its recoil was FAR higher than he could tolerate!
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loaded with a 360 grain cast bullet over 60 grains of RL7 its a totally different gun. and will still kill anything in north America that you hit correctly, and that 360 grain bullets most likely going at only about 2200fps
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