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That's a lot of blood on the outside. How big was the exit hole, Neale?

How about what happened at impact?
I've been told that that velocity with that bullet will just about cut a whitetail just about into 2 chunks. The dog's hide must be tough.

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He was only about 40 yards and I hit him in the shoulder as you can see.
Because of the angle it exited out his neck and dropped him like a stone,just nervous kicking.

I expected a huge exit hole but there was none. Broken shoulder,three ribs on the off side,two ribs on the near side + heaps of blood as you can see.

Had a bit of a dig but am unsure if the bullet hung together and exited intact or if it "blew up" and only a little piece came out. Should of looked more but was too keen to keep going after my dogs.

John.
We are lucky to have Tony close and keen.

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Very nice.
But I must ask..Hows the bad side?

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Missing !.

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85% weight retention. Just like a big wad of bubblegun - soft, thin jacket and pure lead core. They are famous for this.

You can see by the turned back strip of jacket, it barely and finally turned sideways when about spent.

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But they hit hard.

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WHUP! or POCK!

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Like hitting a bag of wheat with a cricket bat.

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Have you tried the hornady 350 round nose, I run them with 2207 70 grains and they are devastaing on pigs , donkeys, scrubbers, also work on buff. Make a great noise on pigs.
Im trying the 400 hydros at the moment. Hope to test them on buff soon. Mick

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I love my 458

Off a rest it's a moa rifle.
Yours likely is too.
I shoot the Hornady 350snrn at similar velocities as you're running the 405

I've also shot the long Barnes 350 spitzer copper TSX bullets seated long for big powder room (Lott charges) at over 2700fps, I forget the actual numbers, but they're ultra rippers.

Have fun with that thing!
Nice dogs too...




Cheers
Tinker

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Another vote for the 350's hey ?.

350 grain TSX @ 2700 would sort most things I would think.

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Neale, my mate shot the chrony before I could test them. So never got around to it. They were very accurate for a big gun. So i tried them on game and havnt looked back. Probably around 2400-2500fps. Hornady data. No pressure signs.
Prior to the .458 I ran a 45/70 Ruger #1 with them at approx 2150fps. Shot heaps of camels donkeys horses and buff with the hornady 350, worked well. Ran this set up and 500 grain loads as a back up gun until a mate gave me a Mark X .458.
I still have a good quantity of them so ill stick with them for a while. Mick

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G'Day Fella's,

Any idea what "Sweet Nothings", the dogs might be whispering in the Pigs ears?

Doh!
Homer

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Something to do with rough foreplay

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Great stuff !

I see you have plenty of "protection" for that front holder while he is doing the whispering

Can't get him to hold from the side eh ?

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He does on his own.
He tries to take the pig away from George.

The trouble is he has hunted with a breastplate all his life so he hasn't learnt to many "tuff lessons" and doesn't have any respect for the "pointy end".

Because he is so little I have wrapped him in cotton wool. Most of my dogs learn the bussiness without a plate like "George" in the photo.

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