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Peterson Cartridge Company H&H-Belted Wildcat Tube
fire-formed to .458 Winchester Magnum,
with a delightful, low-recoiling, very uniform starting load for the .458 WM+:



A Ruger M77 Mk II with 25" Shilen, 1:14"-twist barrel, was used.
Scope was a Nikon 3-9x40mm SlugHunter with 75-yard parallax, in medium-height Ruger extension rings:



Not quite ready for King of Two Mile, but this is the brass to use for the competition.
When I get the 1:10" twist FN Mauser out of the spa, some experimenting with supersonic VLD heavy bullets is in order.
I got a taller tripod and now I can chronograph at the 100-yard public range position,
where the ground drops off more in front of the bench,
as long as I hang a sandbag under the tripod to keep the wind from blowing it over.