Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Express Rifles and Big Bores Only 458 x 1.8" for Michigan deer hunting in Zone 3

True the O.D. of the case tapers but the brass thickness increases also, not at a 1:1 ratio, but trimming .3" doesn't cause much difference in I.D.. I seat the bullets to the same OAL as factory 405 gr softpoints. Since I use these in my Ruger No.1 I don't have to worry about a crimp, but I do run them back into the sizing die (with decapping pin removed) as kind of a taper crimp. Bullets are too tight to twist or pull with my fingers but I have not run any through my Marlin '95 so I can't vouch for whether they'll stand up to that abuse.


350gr left, factory 405 center, 400gr right.