Rechambering Model 70 Safari Express in .458 Win Mag to .458 Lott

[michael458]

HI Micael..Tom in New Orleans...Hope your well..

Peachy Tom......... Good to hear of you. Yes I saw recently you had a 16 inch 458 Winchester done....Nice.... I would like to get my hands on one of those sometime to run some tests.......

 

[AZDAVE]

@michael458 I just read through this post, thank you for also putting up data on the lehigh bullets, I shot some in the 458B&M you made me before Chris talked me out of it I have been loading them in my 450Marlin bolt gun and they are shooting well along with the CEB solids. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience and data with all of us here on AH!

 

[michael458]

@michael458 I just read through this post, thank you for also putting up data on the lehigh bullets, I shot some in the 458B&M you made me before Chris talked me out of it I have been loading them in my 450Marlin bolt gun and they are shooting well along with the CEB solids. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience and data with all of us here on AH!

No worries....... No thanks needed, my pleasure........... I am very excited about the potential the Lehigh Extremes present. I just finished a post on BadBoy Melvins thread, some of it included the Lehighs.

The Lehighs origins go back to 2007. JD and I were working on some things for the .500s at that point and JD had this Fluid Moving bullet that he wanted me to try out. At the time, it was exactly a "Limited Penetration Solid" very similar to the North Fork CPS bullets, except it did indeed transfer more trauma to tissue because of the fluid moving action that occurs with it. This bullet was no where close as radical as todays Lehighs, but it was a beginning..........

Later in 2007 I took it and used it on buffalo in Zimbabwe with great success............

Today's Lehigh Extremes are far more radical, and in my opinion better at what they were designed to do, sling fluid, increased surface area, and inflicting trauma, and more than adequate penetration for buffalo.......

I would most certainly put these bullets in the new high end of Bullet Tech available, and for your 450 Marlin and others 45/70s, they are able to enhance the cartridges immensely in my opinion. If I were still hunting today, I would have to try them on buffalo, even if shooting higher capacity cartridges. These bullets are velocity hogs, the more velocity, the more trauma........ Penetration is great for their mission.

I am a believer in these as well........ I have loaded ammo on the shelf in various different cartridges. These bullets also have a home in all my 9mm and 45 ACP Handguns for defense as well.......

Here in 458 B&M along with the 260 Copper Raptors.........

45/70........

458 Super Short.....