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

Ditto, Sir Larry.
Sir John has done well.
The Whitworth .458. WM is a great rifle right from the factory, most of the time.
Mine had nice wood and excellent factory epoxy bedding and secondary recoil lug bedded too.
Good crossbolts and a dynamic 8.5-pound package overall.
Alas, mine had a few rings in the chamber and had to be converted to .458/.416 Ruger by re-chambering.
That was a great sadness.
One less .458 Winchester Magnum in the world.
Here it is before the re-chambering, done simply with a reaming and no set back of barrel.
At least it still has the .458 WinMag throat.
It now needs a new mag box to work correctly with 3 in the box:





Side by side with a Super Grade, a dynamic duo, a pair of peers:





I have the parts for the new mag box, still on the to-do list.
I also have a fold-down rear sight for the Whitworth when using the add-on receiver sight.
Schizophrenically the 3-leaf express sight with fixed 100-yard leaf was left in place with the Lyman peep
for the posing above.