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It will be fun to try to Bagwell and to Selous with "barrel sights" on a .458 WM.
Marcella here will be about 8.5 pounds field ready and fully loaded.
That is about what the graceful .461 Gibbs No. 2 of Selous weighed with its slender 28" barrel and incredible barrel sights,
offering sight settings for both 360-grainers at ~1800 fps and 570-grainers at ~1300 fps, paper patched BP.
Selous also graduated to 480-grainers at 2100-2200 fps with the coming of the "Nitro Express" era and metal-patched bullets.
To Bagwell reqires a 480-ish to 540-ish grainer at 1200-1400 fps, ballistics of the Bison Hunters,
with .45-caliber Sharps rifles using grease-grooved or paper-patched bullets.
So the .458 WM+ becomes either a .458 BPE Belted, a .458 NFBPE Belted, with .460" to .461" cast bullets, or a .458 NE Belted
for Selousing with .458" to .459" jacketed bullets ...