Will
(.333 member)
28/12/07 10:46 PM
Re: Krieghoff Classic Big Five in .458 Win Mag

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With handloads, the 458wm will far, far, far outperform the 470. As much as a 200fps advantage goes to the 458wm. Easily more than 100fps.
JPK




Because the 470 case is much larger one could load the 470NE to much, much higher velocities than the 458 WM, if one wanted to do so. I was shooting some loads at ~2250 fps with no accuracy or apparent pressure problems.

The Krieghoff's barrel profile is nearly uniform (and slim) from chamber to muzzle, which I am guessing make it relatively insensitive to regulation issues. All my rounds from sub-2000 fps to over 2250 fps were chucking them into the same spot at 25 yards, at least as far as I could tell shooting off-hand.

As far as I can tell, the old and virtually every present DR have these huge barrel profiles at the chamber because they are using over-sized actions, which make them over-weight beasts. But other opinions may exist!



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