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I would recommend doing some reading on this cartridge before purchasing. Guns rags and forums have talked for years about the compromises resulting from necking up this standard-length cartridge to do DG duty. Primarily it is a reliability issue. To duplicate the performance of the English NE loadings in this smaller case, the powder charge had to be compressed. Stories are out there that ammunition several years old fails to ignite/burn correctly. This led to one account I read of a shooter observing his 500 grain slug bouncing down the range before reaching the 100-yard paper target. This account was then used to explain how African game wardens were perplexed why they couldn't down DG with their newly issued .458s with shots that had previously been sufficient with other rounds. This may still be true, I do not know. But reading other people's experiences has sworn me off of ever buying a rifle in this caliber. |