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Sir Dennis,
Very good of you and your rifle.
You just step out with the .458 Whitworth and it leads the way.
Surely you have a pet name for the old girl ?
If I ever knew it I forgot.
What is the name of your poison slinger ?
Buffalo Bill called his "Lucretia Borgia."
Daniel Boone called his "Tick Licker."

Late muzzleloader season here opened yesterday with rain and mud.
So I only pretended to hunt yesterday.
Instead I took a Marco's Pizza XL Deluxe to the farm owner's house for lunch.

My public range is closed by some complaints from a cattle farmer whose pasture lies about a mile from the firing line.
I will devote this muzzle loader season developing some paper-patched loads for the CVA Paramount .45-cal.
Use it next year. I have three deer in the freezer. Don't need anymore right now,
unless I rush out and buy another freezer ...

Also the handloads for the 404-gr and 400-gr soft and solid combo,
to verify the new solid with longer nose projection, from CEB.
Using Benchmark in the Norma brass at shorter COLs below 3.4".
Goal is a flat 2500 fps with both bullets.
Also to verify that the .700" nose projection (ahead of first band) is as accurate as the 0.600" nose projection on the CEB brass solid.
Anything over 3.340" is a .458 WM+ load, where pressures as high as in a .458 Lott are permissible, heh-heh-heh.
Doc M at MIB has purchased some fresh Benchmark, he also has some 2012 or 2013 vintage.
That is what mine is, 2012-2013 from an 8-pound keg.
Seems good as new.
Hope to see from MIB what the 10 years and lot change does to Benchmark.
He will be testing standard .458 B&M and .458 WM ammo for pressure and velocity.

The .458 B&M+ at 0.260" shorter COL equals the .458 WM+ at whatever COL.
Both will beat a SAAMI .458 Lott, heh-heh-heh.