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No real reason not to. Even if you don't have it stamped or engraved as a Lott, 458WM will shoot just fine in it as well.

Here are a couple examples of this on original rifles. I believe only the early Rigby bolt rifles were sighted this way and many simply had the ramp soldered to the barrel without using a band. A lot of the .275s were that way. W.J. Jeffery used the sleeved sight quite a bit. You can see that...

The front sight is “sleeved” onto the barrel, meaning the ramp is integral with the tubular sleeve and this is soldered onto the muzzle of the barrel. The line is the joint where the sleeve meets up to the barrel. In the old days, Rigby and every other maker, would insure the joint was super...

A strip of semi dense foam is what I did. No electricity needed!

This statement seals the package deal for me! If it's that rare, and you hold back on or want too much for the dies etc., then the buyer of the rifle has his own custom made, you now have dies that nobody will buy. Your desire to squeeze out as much profit as possible could land you with some...

They have a rebounding hammer so the safety blocks the hammer as well as the trigger so there is no worry of a bump on the hammer firing a chambered round. Seems like a reasonable modern touch I guess. I imagine that these new rifles serve a little bit of a different purpose than buying an...

I was thinking the PH (guy on the left) had a misfire or something but then eventually got off a shot! Pretty exciting stuff!

I love the idea! If the rifle digests the ammo you are talking about then I dare say that not too many folks here could argue against the idea. Also, I had no idea that these were as reasonably priced as they are! The Deluxe takedown at $1700!! That’s a LOT of rifle for the money and and...

I'm looking forward to your report! I had a 12b Pedersoli SXS once and thought the double rear sight was a bit goofy. I sold it, regrettably, and now the supply of the 12s has dried up considerably! I really regret not working with that gun more to see what was possible.

Kynoch used their "Cupro nickelled" bullets in a variety of diameters back in the teens or a little earlier. These were steel jacketed / nickel plated. The Kynoch diagram for the 375s (flanged and belted) specify "Envelopes C.N.S. Cupro Nickelled Steel" and this is from 1912 or thereabouts. Now...

Turn the knurled part to raise the aperture. Clockwisw whilw looking down from the top. A drop of oil in th estem mat help loosen it - they do get gummed up.

This is exactly what I’m talking about! 450/400s are out there. Just troll the usual sites and auctions and Voila’. There you have it! Why reinvent the wheel?

I’ve read every response on this thread and the one question that I must ask is this: Is it ultimately important to prospective buyers to have a factory offered model or can one find what they pine for with a simple rebore/chamber or rebarrel of an existing rifle? With a few exceptions, most of...

I’ve not heard of that. The Lapua wouldn’t fit in the M77 Express action afaik but they did make them in 338 Winchester Magnum. I had one but for some reason I cannot remember sold it…

I guess I agree with Schuler on this one. The belt has zero to do with anything and doesn’t matter one way or the other. My impression is that the belted cartridge at it’s inception was a effective way to headspace a cartridge while allowing for some variance in shoulder shape and placement...

So, does Ruger require an order of 50 pcs minimum for a special run? And, if so, do they require it go through an established distributor?

Here are photos of my original Schuler Jumbo. You can see what an artillery piece these rifles are considering that’s a half inch hole in the end!! The hood release is the little button on the side of the ramp and the hood itself is THICK ! Not just a shade but for real protection ...

Very true... Seems like a "doomsday" style exercise. Honestly, one could shoot a short segment of steel/copper/brass rod in a rifle with a thick enough paper jacket! Not inclined to use one of my rifles as the test mule though LOL!!

On quality rifles, the long express island has a flat spring - really just a strip of thin spring steel - that runs just below the leaves. Each leaf has two flats at the hinge so that when flipped up, one flat is held by the spring keeping it up and the other flats (90deg from the other) holds...

I swage bullets from spent brass some too. Knurling does add a lot of grip for sure. I’ve tried the old method of rolling a file over a cast bullet which does increase the lube carrying capacity over a standard groove lubed bullet but may not be adequate for long barreled rifles. If it works...

I've paper patched quite a bit but admittedly never tried it on a jacketed bullet. I think the target diameter can be attained but I don't know how well the paper will grip a jacketed bullet and whether the gasses will simply blow the paper off of the bullet or whether it will impart the desired...

And another!! Maybe I should pick one up for future projects! eBay item number: 318367039537

The genuine model for the Mauser cocking piece is quite rare but most of the others are pretty common. I do believe that the treaded staff on the taller ones can be shortened to make them a more correct height for the application. The sleeve can likely be shortened as well. Here in the US, going...

That is one rifle I'd really like to have! Have my eye on one but I suspect it will go for more than I have to spend at the moment... Update: apparently one critical element of successful auction bidding is to actually bid... This auction was a couple days ago and I completely spaced it! A...

That's a lot of wrapping to get to .458" and results would be lacking I bet. May be even better to get one of the kids around with a 3-D printer to just make some perfectly sized sabots for you. May be a nice little project for them!

This is the beauty of incorporating a Lyman staff in the sight! Some of them have a little flip down aperture so you have both a small peep for precision and a wider "ghost ring" for a wider FOV. It's funny how the "ghost ring" concept has gained such popularity in the last ten years or so but...

I had the same problem with a batch of HWS 425WR brass - cracking circumferentially in front of the rim. That, I’m sure, is because they were made from the same basic cases as their 404 Jeffery brass and the cut for the rebated rim was too deep thinning out the base wall. This is different in...

Lyman made a cocking piece sight that I think they called the No.1 It dovetailed into the original Mauser piece and used the staff just like other Lyman tang mounted sights. They were offered as an original option on many British bolt guns. The Rigby and Jeffery models were more complicated...

The journey is fun and very educational! Turning the belt off is another step but the nominal diameter of the 7mm brass is .511” so as little work as possible in forming. Your dies look just like dies I have for other purposes. I actually cracked one bleeding 20-1 lead cores so I am very...

I did something similar using 7mm RM brass with the belts turned off. I don't have a 50BMG so I sold them but they were pretty simple dies and it was an enjoyable exercise seeing what could be done with differing jacket lengths and core fills.

These pop-up peeps were fairly common on Continental rifles - doubles, kipplaufs and drillings. A very nice touch and quite usable.

I owned a Genossenschaft 7X65R double - brother’s gun now - that would print both barrels 1-1/2” at 100yds. This rifle is better regulated than any British double we’ve ever owned. That is a superb plains game double in a very capable cartridge. They are out there at far lower prices than...

That is a nice little double! The scope mounts, again, are a tough thing to deal with but if it’s regulated well, which these continental double invariably are, this rifle on the open sights would be quite a capable small game rifle.

I like the utility of the stainless Ruger bolt guns but they just seem to be too heavy for caliber and blocky. Talking about the grey ones. Has anyone here slimmed down a factory Ruger laminate stock? Is there anything to worry about or any post shaping refinishing that you’d want to consider...

These are the bullet of choice for Mannlicher 9.5X57s for that very reason. They work in the rotary magazine whereas SPs don't do so well.

Mauser TypeC on Gunbroker. I don't have a 'C' and would snap this one up if it didn't have the holes... But, of course, it would be more $$! Still, a good pre WW1 Oberndorf in the venerable 30govt'06 and this exact rifle is detailed in Speed's "Original Oberndorf Sporting Rifles" book correctly...

It's a ca 1950 Harley Davidson Hydraglide

Sorry - I missed that you are in SA! Americans! Go get yourself a .458 Whitworth! LOL

There’s a 458WM Whitworth in the classifieds at a very reasonable ask. Buy that and have no regrets.

I suppose that's technically true but generally not much to worry about unless the "smith" has been doing activities that have raised BATF suspicion. They do have a lot on their plate... I ship and receive the occasional gun at my home - pre 1899 antiques as I do not have any sort of FFL...

That's a very well done rifle! $3500CA is about $2500US but then going through Borderview adds some to that. The last time I used them to Import a rifle it was around $600 but that rifle was $9K and I don't recall if the fee was graduated for the value of the gun. Thats pretty much a "do it all"...

I loaded 500gr Hornady DGX over 95gr H4831 for a friend. One shot on a male lion and done. I know the DGX has a bit of a reputation but on a cat seemed to be as good as any expanding 500gr 458. Also, his rifle was regulated for that load. He used the same on a few other plains game animals on...

I don't know who John A Flawes is, but those photos are of my rifle taken by myself! LOL!! That said, they do show how Schuler did it and one can even glean some ideas of how improvements can be made - in box construction particularly.

See the photos I posted of the way Schuler modified the magazine and made the follower to work with such a fat cartridge. I don't know what Jeffery did on the rifles they built though. Schuler designed the 500 long after Rigby's exclusive use of magnum length actions ended. They could have used...

Today, the death toll has reached over 1000. The current Ebola outbreak has outspread (by deaths over time) over any other in history. Is this going to be the biggest outbreak of Ebola recorded or will it be contained? Doesn’t look all that promising statistically.

I’ve had what may be a similar experience. My first son was born with a diaphragmatic hernia and had no real chance of survival. Even the best surgeons and treatment the western medical world could muster weren’t successful and he died. I can tell you, holding your own son while he takes his...

I do find it interesting, as it applies to shoreline croc attacks, that of all the humanitarian organizations that are active in India and Africa, none of them has devised the incredibly simple method of establishing fenced areas where the village folk can safely approach and use the bank as...

Ive heard this yarn before... My best advice to someone who reverently adheres to such a viewpoint is - don't have children and be the first to sacrifice your own life for the betterment of society.

I care because he was made in the image of God, just as you were. Now, being a poor village boy of 12y, he probably had not consciously decided to reject that status so has every grace that can be bestowed upon him as an innocent human being. I suppose, if you have children, you would find it...

And the 425Westley also has a rim like the 8mm but is something like .008" larger in base diameter than the 11.2 Schuler. What I really want to illustrate is just how little rim/bolt face overlap you need for a Mauser to reliably feed from the magazine. Since Mauser ‘98s were designed with a...