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DUGABOY1
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Re: Which 450 caliber is this?
02/12/03 02:44 AM

This is only a guess but I think this is the 450 BLACK POWDER EXPRESS, with 120 grs of black powder, and useing a 270 gr bullet! Probably the same case as the 450NE 3.25" only an early black powder express!

450EX 120/270:

450EX= .458 dia Express round

120= 120 grs Black Powder

270= 270 gr bullet, probably paper patched lead!

Can you tell if this is a bottlenecked cartridge, or a streight case? If it is streight the above applies,and is the exact load listed in the 1910-11 Eley ammo catalog! IMO, this is the cartridge your rifle is chambered for!

If however, it is bottle necked, I may be the 500/450#1 Express also a black powder cartridge. This one is made by necking down the 500 case to 450, with a finished length of 2 3/4" case, and the load offered for it, in the old Eley catalog, is 450 bullet, with 110 grs black, and a 270 gr bullet!

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Which 450 caliber is this?	Levallois	30/11/03 06:44 AM
Re: Which 450 caliber is this?	DUGABOY1	02/12/03 02:44 AM
Re: Which 450 caliber is this?	Levallois	02/12/03 07:54 AM
Re: Which 450 caliber is this?	DUGABOY1	02/12/03 10:21 AM
Re: Which 450 caliber is this?	Levallois	02/12/03 10:47 AM
Re: Which 450 caliber is this?	DUGABOY1	03/12/03 09:15 AM
Re: Which 450 caliber is this?	Levallois	04/12/03 07:03 AM
Re: Which 450 caliber is this?	DoubleD	04/12/03 01:15 PM
Re: Which 450 caliber is this?	mickey	04/12/03 01:59 PM
Re: Which 450 caliber is this?	400NitroExpress	04/12/03 05:26 PM
Re: Which 450 caliber is this?	Levallois	05/12/03 01:39 PM
Re: Which 450 caliber is this?	DoubleD	06/12/03 01:47 AM
Re: Which 450 caliber is this?	400NitroExpress	06/12/03 06:33 AM

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