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Well Done.... Best of Luck Have shot 3 Cape Buff with CEB Raptors all inside of 50 yards they did not go far

Cape Buff all inside of 50 yards 1 400 H&H 1x6 Swaro 1 450 NE Express Sights 1 505 Gibbs Express Sights Aprox 25 Water Buff (Cull Hunt) 458 Lott 1.2x4 S&B

Are you familiar with the 75% rule??? loading a bullet that is 75% the weight of the bullet that the rifle is regulated for over the same powder charge should shoot to same POA POI ... for example your 450NE is regulate for a 480gr bullet over so many grains of H4350 75% of 480 is 360 a 350gr...

for your viewing and to keep (8x60's) Salter and Varge .410 company is a John Wilkes .410 made mid 1920's cambered 2 1/2" with 27" barrels weighs in at 4.5lbswith a quarter to show just how petite these guns are

Have you checked the dia of the expander ball in your sizer dia.. going through my loading notes I had the same difficulties.. bullet seemed loose after seating so I turned down the expander ball a few thou that seemed to solve the problem

Which Bullet did you buy ?? CEB makes a .457 dia Bullet for the 450NE and a .458 dia Bullet for the Lott, Win Mag and others

A couple of 19th Century British guns Side Lever 16b Purdy 1895 Alfred Lancaster 12b 1885 Nitro Proof Damascus

Folks it was brought to my attention by TroubleShooter (Great Catch bye the way) that the Data that I presented on my post #22 was in error ... The Data I copied was for the 450-400 3 1/4" page 159 of Wright's new book the Data that should have been copied was page 157 of his book for the...

The bore riding bullets like CEB seem to run a little faster then convetional bullets and the petals will shear at a lower velocity CEB raptors and Solids are what I run in my 1902 Gibbs 450NE

318AE Here is data that has been generated on the JBM Website using Hornady's .410 400gr DGs at 1950fps https://www.jbmballistics.com/ This is from the Woodleigh Bullet Catalogue notice the recommended velocity range Data from the JBM Site with the Hornady 400gr DGS at 2100fps

Copy from Wright's new book .... Can you tell us about the Double

Just Wow

Courtney's Jim Greens neither fit my Fat Feet

The beauty of reloading is you have options.. the Woodleigh Manual offers powder choices for their 525 gr bullet, weights ranging form 102grs of RL 15 to 140grs of RL 25. If you plug those numbers into a recoil calculator https://shooterscalculator.com/recoil-calculator.php that weight...

Give these boys SSI a call they are good to work with