Recent content by Riflecrank

The Roy Vincent thought is indeed a good one to keep in mind, when elephant hunting. Forget the Trophy Bonded Sledgehammer "Solid" however. It is a nonsolid, brass encapsulated lead core. Like the steel encapsulated, lead core Hornady DGS, it can flatten the tail, fish tail, bend like a banana...

I sure wish 2RECON would copy and paste some of his-story in developing this cartridge, paste it here, please.

Boone66, Some have opined that the 9.3/.338 LM would have been the most perfect cartridge. That would be a .366/.338 Lapua Magnum. But I started this OCD with .375, and that is only 0.009" different than a 9.3mm/.338 LM. That is less than the difference between .500" and .510". Bullet...

One rifle one planet: .458 WIN MAG

That was the whole idea behind the ".375 Twister" aka "9.5x69mm Tornado" aka .375 XLR (9.52x70mm) now listed by CIP. Started as a .338 Lapua Magnum case necked up and fire-formed to sharpen the shoulder. Dreaded donut at shoulder-Neck 1 inside reamed as described above. The Lapua-made .338 LM...

My preferred load back in the day was 90.0 grains of H4350 with the 300-gr GSC HV (monometal copper hollowpoint) which gave about 2860 fps from my 26" barrel. That was a 99% fill with the COL used for that bullet. Plenty of room for more powder to get compression with a drop tube and probably...

BeeMaa, Been so long since I shot it I will have to go look at the books. IIRC I only loaded it to .375 Weatherby load levels, about 2800 fps with 300-grainers in a 26" barrel. My throat is same as the latest .375 Weatherby of CIP 2002: Good accuracy. My pressures were low, with a bigger case...

The real deal .375 XLR (eXtra Long Range ?): 500 meter 5-shot group: Some SQLR bullets (?) and I think the 325-gr copper that did the group is 4th from right below: Hoping 2RECON can add some history and ballistics here. What sort of load gives 4700 bar in the .375 XLR ? I might want to...

It is a hunting rifle. The Arm Tec stock had its LOP lengthened to 14" by use of a 1.5" pad, Pachmayr Triple-X "White-Line" with blackening of the white: I never used one of those pads again, easier to just add LOP with a slip-on LOP adjuster, easier to switch to arctic clothing fit by removing...

Nah, that is a 'tweener caliber not a significant improvement over .458-caliber, and poor bullet availability in .475 caliber, and most of those are .474-caliber to be easy on double-barrels. .500-caliber and .510-caliber are a real step up, and they both have lots of bullets available, from...

My .338 Lapua Magnum litter, each for which I have built one or two rifles, mostly CZ 550 Magnums, one BRNO ZKK 602, one Winchester M70, one Weatherby Mark V, and one FN Mauser with Duane Wiebe's 500 Jeffery bottom metal: Old bullets might be updated with the latest from CEB, North Fork and...

A shorter solid is inherently more stable. Maybe why there is nothing to be gained by using a 500-gr CEB Safari Solid versus the 450-grainer, which is thus far champ of the .458 Safari Solids. I must note that the .700" NP 400-gr.458 Safari Solid has not been tested at .458 WIN MAGA load levels...

Wonderful to see you posting here, 2RECON. I wish you would tell the tale of how this cartridge came to be CIP homologated, over 20 years after conception ? This cartridge was the first wildcat with which I ever "re-invented the wheel." After I necked up a .338 Lapua Magnum to .375-caliber in...

Michael458 and staff (his name is Sam) at McCourry Institute of Ballistics in South Carolina are responsible for the final evolution of the Elephant Bullet. This development has spanned over 20 years of field testing and bullet catching in the laboratories of MIB, working closely with North Fork...

buckstix, I am seriously covetous of your .450 Watts Magnum and .450 Buhmiller Magnum rifles. You have me beat on on quality but I still have you on quantity. Add these eleven more to my dozen .458 WIN MAGs: 2 .458 Lott 2 .45-70 Elko Magnums 1 .450 NE 1 .458/.416 Ruger 1 .458 B&M 1 .450 Barnes...