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.458, really nice rifle!

An Improved .38-56 {not .38-55} would be perfect. Take some taper out of the .38-56 {.45-70 basic case} and blow out the shoulder, set it up for .375 diameter bullets and you would have a round approaching the .375 Whelen that could be made up in a very light rifle.

Ken Waters' .375 Express or whatever he called it using the .444 case looks go, too and would likely be easier to get the rifle to feed, but would I think give up a bit of case capacity.

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Rod - did you know the .350 Remington mag. necked to .375 is virtually a belted .45/70 necked to .375? I chambered one up, for a Styer straight-pull 8x56R military action and it used either brass - with rims turned on the .45/70 brass of the .350 Rem brass with belts turned off.

It easily did 2,200fps with 270's - 2,300fps comes to mind. I recall that at the time, I made 2,100+fps with 300's and noted that I'd about duplicated the .333 Jeffery ballistics - of course with a lower SD bullet, only .303SD or so. I just can't get that lyon's face out of my mind, the charging lyon 'stopped' by a .333 Jeffery 300gr. to the cranium.(J. Taylor's book) HA!

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Daryl


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