Originally Posted by Tarbe


Lee cast bullet in the 7Mag with 2 grains of Bullseye with a cotton wad over the top. Great part was, I could retrieve the bullets out of the tub and recycle them in the lead pot!

Fast forward...if I can shoot a 7Mag in the basement, surely I can kill a squirrel (and a duck, too) with round balls in the .458.

Oh yeah.

Don't try this at home... smile


That's a trick I picked up 20 years ago or so. The idea is to have a long, heavy-for-caliber soft lead bullet and a long barrel. I used a military-grade Carl Gustav 6.5X55 rifle, with a cast 160 gr bullet, and 2.5 gr of Bullseye. The load is subsonic and with that long barrel, quieter than a .22 short. Rumor says such a rig could be used for shooting squirrels and feral cats out of your basement window, so as not to alarm the neighbors, but that's just rumor...

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