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Postman
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Re: Using .458 Lott for DG AND Plains Game Practicality [Re: tinker]
      #311841 - 07/02/18 11:44 AM

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I thought I'd seen 1800-2100 on the woodleigh site.

Went back and copied this:

30 458 Mag .458" 400gr PP 1900-2250
You might want to double check the 2500 number.

Still, for your interest the range of impact velocity seems it might be narrow.
I'd phone the guys at woodleigh.

I'd chosen the 350gr Barnes spritzer X-bullet years ago for many reasons, including the wide range of effective impact velocities.
It might help you to look at it, perhaps to test it.



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Tinker




Hi Tinker:

You got me thinking.... A scary thought as I'm kind of a slow boy at the best of times, but after reading your post, I went to the Woodleigh web site and sure enough, you are correct on the velocity range.....It says 1900 - 2250 fps. Then I went to the bullet box.... Well I'll be damned. 1900-2500fps printed on the label on the empty box.

Then I got more curious.... Looked at the 3 full boxes I still have in the bullet cabinet..... Two of them are labelled 1900 - 2500 fps, and the third is labelled 1900 - 2400 fps.

Still not content, I went to the Woodleigh manual that came mail order a week ago..... Well holy Sh1t Batman... The manual says 1900 - 2500 fps for the 400 grain PP SN .458 caliber bullet....

So who know how dang hard these bullets really are??? Maybe they changed them and never updated the web site? I got the bullets the same time as the new manual was mail ordered so I suppose they're relatively newly made..... Not sure how long things sit on the distributor's shelf here in the far corners of frost bitten Kanuckistan, but just maybe they are of newer manufacture? Maybe they thickened the jackets to make the bullets a little tougher?

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Re: Using .458 Lott for DG AND Plains Game Practicality [Re: Postman]
      #311844 - 07/02/18 12:14 PM

2400fps? 2500fps? - likely no discernible difference. MUCH depends on exactly WHAT they hit.

How many feet/yards do that have to travel to lose 100fps? Not very far.

ANY bullet is going to react differently if impacting EXACTLY the same tissue at 80yards compared to 150yards, compared to 200or more yards. Use a bullet that will work and have at it.

Those distances are not rules, but merely goid-loins - just like the Pirate's code of conduct.

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Daryl


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