Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Express Rifles and Big Bores Only The great 458 Winchester. Everyone should own one at least once

Well, whichever load you are referring too, there are reduced loads and light-bullet loads galore.
Wear muffs and plugs at the bench and use elbow pads and a pad between rifle and you at the bench.
Three pieces of high-density foam rubber cut from a butt cushion like used in ground blinds and tree stands.
This allows me to fire 60 rounds per day, two days in a row with no ill effects from a no-brake, 9-pound-dry Ruger No. 1.









Those are three hits on big gong at 600 yards with a low-velocity, 487-grain Linotype, PC-Painted, plain-base "Government" round nose.
Duplicating the rainbow trajectory of the bison-butter-piercers with smokeless and cast.
I know, I know, sharpsguy and gunner500 can do better with iron sights and BP,
but I am just a plinker, a rank amateur.
The .458 WM can be fun.

Here is the "parts rifle" that hit the gong with cast bullets and can also be single loaded with too-long-COL 500-gr TSX "target bullets."
It is a Pre-'64 Winchester M70 .30-06 action with a CZ 550 Magnum barrel set back 1/8" for 24-7/8" barrel, re-chamber for SAAMI .458 WM with 3.4" box length.

See load data graph and two targets below:













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Thanks to all the missionaries, I'll get to it again after a nap.