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mickey
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Re: 450 Marlin for DG
      30/05/05 10:59 AM

martin

No I don't load for the 348. I shoot less than 5 rounds a year out of it so it is not worth it. Yes I do shoot the 250 grain bullets. I still have about 5 boxes.

The 50-110 is interesting but I don't need that much power in that light a package. If I do need the power I have a couple of doubles that will work.

In '85 a friend and I went down to Davuli Ranch in Zim and hunted a bit with William Finaughty, grandson of the famous Elephant hunter. My friend brought a 450 Alaskan on the Mod 71 and some 500 grain Winchester softs. He had taken the nose off to make a flat nose out of them.

I think he shot 5-6 Buffalo and a Giraffe with it. It was evident that it was not nearly good enough for the Buf and a disaster on the Giraffe. I got to finish off some of them with my 404.. Whether it was bullet problems or not I can't say but it clearly lacked penitration, particularly striaght line penitration.

None of the residents had ever seen anything like the 450 Alaskan. Most were limited to only seeing lever actions on TV.

Maybe with better bullets it would have worked better, I don't know. Maybe not.

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