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It’s yours. PM me your info and I will get it moving.

Received the .450/.400 brass from AZDAVE so I’m offering this unused Lee Loader in .44 Mag.

IIRC, there was a thread here a while back where someone discovered those Lee .416 Taylor dies on Amazon have the same product code as a different caliber Lee die (.308 maybe) so what they received was not .416 Taylor!

I say go for the .416 Taylor, if you solve the die problem first. If you find yourself disappointed with the Taylor at some later date then you could easily ream the chamber out to .416 Ruger without changing barrels again. I did this on a short chambered Taylor I acquired last year.

I’ll step up for that brass! PM sending…

Are they a direct fit or require enlargement of the slot in the tang?

Just a thought: did you use a torque wrench to set the front action screw to the Ruger spec’d 90 in-lbs and the 2 trigger guard screws to the 45-60 in-lbs? I think I am remembering those numbers correctly. I believe Ruger came up with those specs in an attempt to eliminate stock cracking...

#1 in 450 Nitro Express. Duplicate the Boddington issue except offer it in gloss blue instead of matt finish.

I still have muscle memory of upward tilting my 12ga SxS to eject hulls from CAS competition days and that technique works with the factory safety on my .450/.400 #1, but would be much nicer to just eliminate that problem with a better designed safety button.

I want to keep the original parts available to a buyer if I decide to sell the rifle in the future.

I want one for my .450/.400 as well. Very interested in seeing pics.

Hunter Habib personifies my definition of a truly practical hunter. I want to grow up to be just like him.

Really nothing to debate here. Those that shoot DG with a .45-70 successfully have a story to tell that we will read about. Those that shoot DG unsuccessfully have a story told about them that we will also read about. What’s not to like?

Glock 43X in my right front pants pocket.

It’s very manageable, to me at least. I put an NECG 1-1/4” butt pad on it before I fired it to increase the LOP and added a Leupold Vari-X 3iii 1.5-5 scope so I can’t comment on a bare #1 in 450/400.