I would never trade my 416 Rem M70 for a 458 Win. There is no comparison in versatility.
Sir EdM,
Would you like to elaborate on that since this is a thread on "The Great .458 Winchester Magnum...", and some of us believe a fair comparison could be attempted but that, all things considered, the .458 Win would win! I've already done such comparisons in an unbiased manner - no axe to grind - and have concluded that the .458 is the best all-around, given the choice of bullets from 250gr to 600, and at any speed possible from black powder vintage to today's best.
I want to qualify some of the above: I'm certainly not assuming that all on this thread believe as I do, but "some", and I think that would include Sir Ron. But my conclusions are not arrived at by feelings or emotions, but by facts. I'm very "hard-nose" in being objective. Some of my .458 Win loads are equivalent to BP loads: less than 2500 ft-lbs, while others are up to 6000+ ft-lbs: a 350gr TSX at 2780 fps/6005 ft-lbs as one example, etc, with dozens of loads in between.
And a lot of that has to do with the SAAMI "free bore" of the .458 Win Mag which easily makes it equivalent to or better than the .458 Lott.
