I could not have hoped for a better start on this Tread, lots of discussion, interesting facts and pictures!
@Spindrift I live in Halden and have all my family in Bærum, a trip to a range with a fellow castshooter would be fun. Hopefully my Vektor dsb mauser in 458x2" is done before christmas.
Nice to see all the cool rifles, there is an old saying, Only accurate rifles are interesting, accuracy over looks any day
On my way to the reloading room and will shoot some rounds over the chrono today. Will keep you posted!
It sounds like you’re building a 458x2 American? Nice you will like it.
I built one on a Remington 660 magnum, or a better description is I simply had it rebarreled and a Decelerator recoil pad added.
Three Remingtons, top a 660 rebarreled to 260 Remington, the bottom is. 600 in 308 complete with the vent rib.
The center rifle is my 458x2, a 22 inch barrel and a great scope for tough conditions and tough critters. It’s a Leupold VX-6 1x6 power, 30 mm tube, but the beauty is that at 100 yards the field of view is 110 feet. And it’s bright. Anyway I built it for the big bears.
Took my Father and Brother after coastal Browns back in the 80’s and I was carrying a 458 magnum built on a Mark 10 action, 25” barrel and a Lyman receiver sight. Long story short the gun was long, and heavy at 11 pounds all up. After we were try to move up on a good size bear and having to crawl through some very thick Alders in which I could not have brought that big gun into action in a hurry if needed, well long story short when I got back to town I sold that rifle, bought the 660 which had a 6.5 Remington magnum barrel when purchased and took it to Peacock my Gunsmith and got the 458x2 in the works. I had killed to black bears with the 458 magnum and liked it just fine, but not for tight conditions. The 660 458x2 weights in at just under 8 pounds with scope unloaded and total overall length is 41.5 inches. I have confidence that that cartridge will take care of anything walking in this country, or the planet for that matter.
It’s basically a hot 45-70.
Bullets I’ve used are Barnes 300 and 400 grain semi spizer originals and the 350 grain all copper spizer.
In cast I’m working on the LEE 500 grain semi pointed and the 370 semi pointed by Arsenal. Will be working on these two loadings this next summer.
The short action of the 660 and the blunt 458x2 end up requiring a semi pointed bullet to feed reliably.
As a side note my wife’s family is from Hurdal, Norway. Karyn writes fairly often and also Face Book. The family name is Indgjerding shortened to Indgjer on this side of the pond.
John
