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I hope you guys don't bash me too hard for this. but I've listed in the classified a few times and can't seem to sell so I thought I would try it here..
I have 49 .458 500 grain solids. thought maybe they were Hornady but they are more of a round nose profile than the current DGB .. anyway I would like to get 50 bucks and the actual shipping..

Are they steel-jacketed? Those are desirable.

IIRC Hornady usta make 500-gr 458's withbout the current flat point. Those might be older Hornadys. Or is it Hornadies haha.

Yeah they're Hornady's. I have some and could only sell them to someone who knows nothing about "solids" for dangerous game. Hornady hasn't made them for some time for a good reason.. . . . They didn't do the job intended, but bent when hitting big elephant bones, or sheared, or . . . . whatever. The only plan I have for mine is for practice shooting.

Hornady's latest has a decent reputation: the "soft" has a flat tip with an exposed hardened lead core that's bonded to a steel jacket with a copper coating. The solid is the reverse. The expanding bullet is called DGX (Dangerous Game Expanding, and the solid is called DGS (Dangerous Game Solid).

Depending on how many you have, $50 wouldn't be too much several years ago, but today you'd be lucky to get $20. No one would buy them for serious work in Africa on DG, other than for relatively cheap practice shooting before a safari.

Bob
www.bigbores.ca

Those bullets look exactly like the old Hornady steel jacketed solids from 40-50 years ago. I shot either one or two elephant bulls with them. One bull with a 500 grain 458Winchester and the other a 500 grain 470 NE. They worked great for body shots but the one I brain shot, the bullet is slightly bent and the base flattened out a bit. It was a tough angle, quartering away so entered behind the ear, lots of tough bone on that route. But it dumped the bull in his tracks.

I usually use those Hornady RN solids for practice. I usually bought them on sale and think they’re good in that role because they were cheap. Still have some left but don’t use anything other than monolithic FP solids for elephants now.

well how cheap cheap? how cheap do they need to be LOL..