Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Express Rifles and Big Bores Only 458 lott 500 grains?

IMO, an honest 2200 FPS with a 500 gr. 458 cal bullet is an ideal killer of that which walks, talks, breaths or crawls and an honest 2100 FPS will do fine...You just don't need any more velocity. The beauty of the .458 Lott is you can do this with very low pressure..

The interesting thing is the Lott really wasn't designed to push 500's @ 2300 fps. It was designed to easily drive 500's 2100 fps. With the powders available at the time of the 458 wins introduction, 500 @ 2100 wasn't easily achieved with the smaller case.

As to an extra 50 fps being noticeable when pushing 500 gr pills, absolutely! You can even notice differences in recoil between different powders. I tried VV N550, and while I could only get 2200 w/ 500's, it was an unpleasant experience.