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What powders were you considering ??

Had a Total Shoulder replacement on my dominant side end of March Have been this year very comfortable shooting Clays with my 12ga O/U starting this Sept Have yet to shoot a Rifle larger than my 22 K-Hornet.. now 7 months post surgery ... Waiting till next summer a full year plus and yes I'll...

A Flat nosed bullet with the appropriate size Meplat will out penetrate a round nose bullet regardless it's diameter

Any practice helps, carrying your rifle a couple of hours a day helps, doing exercises with your rifle helps once or twice a day helps.. For what it is worth I have shot 3 cape Buffalo all inside of 50 yards have yet to use sticks ...

the intention of the small washer is to provide a better bearing surface between the spring's coils and "C" clip

not a problem did not notice ... My to FN Win's are a 400H&H and a 458 Lott If I remember the spring was captured by a "C" clip my gunsmith put a small washer between the spring and "C" clip

Had the same problem with a FN Win Mod 70 after about 200 rounds ...,,. The OEM Spring I was told was a 24-25lb spring... I purchased a Wolff extra power firing pin spring for a Win mod 70 that I believe was 30lbs... cut off the appropriate number of coils to the same length as original and...

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...