New owner of 470 n.e.

[Buck51]

I have a lot of Kynoch No2 wads in stock. Cheap enough that even with shipping from the U.K, you’ll pay less than from Trader Joes. £7.50/100, $10.17/100 plus postage.

Postage would work out at £11.70 international tracked. (For up to 50 packs or so).

I will also take 10 packs. Please pm for payment info. Thanks

 

[Riflecrank]

Cutting to the chase, here is the tale of a 470 NE Merkel that I finalized 20 years ago:

Maybe that recoil pad helped too !
Maybe Merkel got a better batch of ammo than I did from Federal.
That is the only time I have been disappointed by Federal's premium stuff.
It is usually faster than advertised and very accurate in my preferred DGR, the .458 WIN MAG:

Todays factory .458 WIN MAG ammo is excellent, easily duplicates the ballistics of the 470 NE, and no crossfiring. Handloads are even better, with 400-grainers at 2500 fps able to handle all duties, DG or PG.

 

[Riflecrank]

Just to stir the pot,
I found 87 grains of what looked like RL-15/F-216 primer/no filler in the 500-gr TBSS Federal factory load,
but I found this in a 500-gr Woodleigh Weldcore RNSP Federal factory load:

Does this mean the Woodleigh has a greater start pressure and greater barrel strain than the TBSS ?
I believe the research at MIB by Michael 458 has shown that both the CEB 500-gr Safari Solid of brass and the North Fork monometal copper FP solid are easier on DR barrels than the old standard of the DR crowd, the Woodleigh softs and solids.
Add that to the fact that Dacron fiber filler causes pressure spikes that the foam wads (or no filler at all) do not, all this gleaned from research at MIB.