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Mine is the .350 Remington Magnum, the world’s first short magnum. It can be loaded up or down and thereby cover the full ballistic range of .35-cal/.358 cartridges - from the .35 Remington to the .35 Whelen. The main advantage and difference with the .350RM is that it fits a .308/2.800...

What .400-class rifles do you own/shoot? Just curious.

Noop, still waiting on the bullets. But I’ll start with the low-end .404J load data and work up. I’ll post back here or in a new thread with a review of how they performed.

Exactly. …. Good to see someone gets it. That’s exactly why Jeffery designed and loaded the .404 as he did. He took the already-proven killing power of the 450/400 Nitro in dbl rifles - having a similar velocity/energy level (fps/fpe) - and created a cartridge suitable to fit and feed in a...

Bengal Bullets .404/.424" diameter WFN bullet will make for even cheaper practice time as well as being an effective hunting HC projectile as well. I'm expecting a 500-ct order to arrive any day now. If you order in volume, the price per bullet drops accordingly. A 250ct order works out to...

What I said earlier wasn’t “unclear.” You just didn’t comprehend it. I load and shoot modern 400grn bullets at original Jeffery velocities, which can be as low as 1975fps from a 24” barrel to an upper level of 2150fps. That same velocity killed tons of DG animals of all species in Africa in the...

Dude, if you’d actually researched my post-history on this board (before posting your knee-jerk, semi-coherent response above), you’d know that I own and shoot an AHR-built .404 rifle, a full Wayne Jacobs custom build, and have posted various pics in numerous threads about it. It can also be...

Yes, AA 5744 is what I meant. Thanks for catching that. And I will be using that propellant initially to test the 400grn/.424 dia coated WFNGC boolits that are inbound from Bengal Bullets.

You have no idea what you’re talking about regarding what constitutes proper .404 Jeffery ballistics. The .404J with a 400grn bullet, which was the cartridge’s dominant bullet-weight since its inception, was never loaded in factory ammo to Rigby levels (i.e., 2300+fps) until Hornady pumped-up...

Did Wayne install the pop-up peep? If so, was it a NOS BRNO part, or is he making for the CZ 550 actions?

Have got an order coming in from Bengal Bullets of their coated GC-ed .424 HC slug. Pricing was very reasonable for a 500ct order. 390grns is what is pictured below but with his new mould and new coating it’s actually supposed to be right at 400grns. The owner is “Keith” and he was very...

Maybe I missed it, but was there a list somewhere of what cartridges/calibers were being shot by the participants in the video? A couple of them looked to be shooting small(er) bore rifles.

What are your anticipated shooting ranges and hunting environments where you’d actually use your .404J? Wayne built my AHR .404 with a 23” tube, (McGowen, IIRC), which is perfect for my needs. Old School magnum rifles were generally standardized at 24” minimum, but examples exist with 26”...

Yeah, I like the wood a lot. Just not sure what’s going on with the recoil pad. :unsure: Looks like a poorly-fitted Kickezz.

. Eh, meh, blah. They’re okay, …. but nowhere near as great as the .35-cals (.35 Whelen, .350 Rem. Mag., et al.).

You might contact bottom-metal expert, Duane Wiebe, and see if he’s added them to Ruger Magnums.

Well, just make sure he's not dead. Saw that happen to a buddy who had sent his favorite hunting rifle to an older gunsmith for some custom work. The guy dropped dead in his shop one day and my buddy's hunting rifle (along with other folks' firearms in the shop) got wrapped up in the settling...

Liked your post …. so just a tad of a quibble: it’s spelled ‘Hemingway,’ with one ‘m.’

Failing to find a CZ 550 in 300H&H, keep an eye out for the “Boddington” run of #1 single-shot rifles that Ruger did in that caliber as part of its Boddington series, which included other classic British/African calibers as well.

I’m the thankful beneficiary of great custom work done on my .375H&H BRNO 602 by well-known Big Bore gunsmith Lon Paul. Based in CA, Lon’s shop was called Tanglewood. Don’t know if he’s still taking work or even in business but about three minutes of Google fu-fu should yield all the...

Sounds like a lame effort. Contact Hornady or Nosler and see if they’ll do a run for you for a certain minimum order amount. It’s not like you wouldn’t sell .404J ammo with all the U.S. -based 404 shooters on this board, AR, Nitro Exp., and a few other sites.

Well, you do you but if it were me and I already had a .458WM (plus the ammo and components), I’d be done with the .400-class altogether and wouldn’t consider a .416-anything. To pair with the .458WM, I’d look for a quality rifle in the 375 Mag class. Options in rifles, factory ammo, and...

What chambering is your Winchester SE? Ruger GGs are solid rifles although I’d have my gunsmith cut off the unnecessary muzzle break - if it came wearing one - just to have a slightly more compact piece and just because I hate MBs. It’s unfortunate that Ruger discontinued the upscale...

Well, I mentioned Bell because I have 20-25 pcs of their brass. Not sure if they were also Bertram at some point. I also have some Norma brass from back when they were also making .404J ammo. Haven’t seen any Kynoch .404J ammo other than an old box or two that pops up on GB once in a while at...

No, Hornady isn’t supporting the .404 cartridge with new brass. Neither is Bell or Norma, as far as I’ve seen. Anything you might find online is NOS.

Unless you’ve got the discretionary income of Elon Musk or Donald Trump, you’re going about it the wrong way. Forget the Old School classics in the .400-class like the .404J, .425WR, and probably the 416 Rigby. Even if you could score a little-fired custom magazine rifle in one of these...

Late to the ball game, … but do you have any .404 Jeff ammo ready to ship? If so, what brand, what bullets & weight, and @ what velocities?

I have an order in with the Bengal guy for what he said would be 400grn/.424 boolits (coated & g.c.-ed) from a new mould he had ordered. He indicated that it would yield another 10grns to the casting and the resulting Jeff boolits will still look identical to the one picture on his website...

I’m stocked on Hornady .404 ammo but I’m also more stocked on components - brass and bullets - and 99.9% of what I shoot are handloads. Jeffery’s original velocity specs sent a 400grn bullet @ 2100-2125-ish fps from a 24” barrel. Not Rigby level at all. Kynoch loads Jeffery ammo to 2125fps...

Dude, if you don’t have a proper .404 Jeffrey thats dressed up for the Big Dance on a classic mauser-claw action (BRNO, CZ), …. well, you’re just another deer camp Fuddley. :ROFLMAO: :LOL::p ;)

Don’t skimp. Go big, go proper … .425 WR:

Please do. It was my understanding also that this self-imposed bank practice had ceased.

Thanks for posting that. A-Square's "Any Shot You Want" manual is where I recall first seeing the specs on the .425 Exp.'s bullet diameter being .423" - same as the .404J. I'm surprised, as stated on the page in the picture above, that Savage didn't maintain this cartridge, along with at...

An intermittent diet of Vegemite explains why Aussies are the least understandable of the so-called “English speaking peoples.” :LOL: :ROFLMAO: No wonder the original Mad Max filmed had to be dubbed by American actors, just to make the characters’ dialog discernible. Even then it took years...

Thought the .425 Express used the same .423" diameter bullet as the .404 Jeff, no? ... The idea being to stuff a 400grn bullet + Jeff ballistics into a standard (unmodified) .30-06-length action (?).

Yes, I’ve used 5744 for .404J loads and a couple of others with good results. UPDATE: having exchanged emails with “James” @ Bengal Bullets, I’ll be ordering a batch of .424 dia slugs from a new mould that he says will put them right at 400grns once coated & gas-checked. Per James, this is a...

Yanks believe it was a diet of Vegemite sandwiches during band practice that inspired the Aussie group Men at Work to fame in the early 1980s. ‘Course, relying on MTV as a source of accurate information was, and still is, risky.

FWIW, I have a #1 in .300H&H. It’s an early #1S model with a 26” barrel. Made in 1990, I believe. It’s not a Lipseys nor one from Ruger’s “Boddington” African series that they did in the early 2000s. Mine shoots great. I’ll try to get some pics up.

Thanks for the update on Tim and Matrix.

The .35W and .350RM have the same case capacity. So you're missing the point of the distinction between the cartridges. The .35W is for use in a LONG action; the 350RM is for use in a SHORT action (2.800"). The original concept of the .350RM was to stuff .35W ballistics - albeit with a...

Ok, thanks for the information!

Mike, Bengal bullets gives an option on these bullets for either “20 BHN hardness” or “air-cooled.” …. Which did you go with? Thanks! https://tiiarmory.com/404-390-lfngc

LOL! No. What “made Hemingway” is that, over time, what he wrote - both fiction & nonfiction - has established him as the greatest writer in the English language since Shakespeare. In between he went through four wives and also loved big game hunting, bullfighting, and miscellaneous blood...

Okay, thanks! I assume they arrived coated and gas-checked, as depicted in the picture? Also, their ad says "390 grain," but did you weigh any of these? I'm unclear whether 390grns is the nominal weight of the slug before or after the coating and the G.C. are added?

Has anybody here ordered these .424 390grn coated GC slugs from Bengal bullets? https://www.africahunting.com/threads/404-jeff-cast-boolit-reloaders.74581/

Any .404 Jeff reloaders here using this 390grn .404/.424 coated GC “Bengal” slugs from this company? If so, can you give a quick evaluation on performance? https://www.bengalbullets.com/shop/p/404-424-390-grain-lfngc

The only cartridge above my .404 Jeff I’d even consider would be the 505 Gibbs, due to the nostalgia of “old Africa” that Hemingway imbued it with in fiction, similar to what Ruark did with Selby’s 416 Rigby. That said, it would also have to be had in the right rifle … and with my reloading...