RBHarter
West Central AR
So the best advice for full power is don't do it with a 45-500 FN .
Fine but I don't want artillery markers im attached to my shoulders , retinas , and hearing needs . So with that in mind let's pretend I want to shoot a 500 gr RCBS 45-500 FN in my Marlin holding it to a max fps of 1100 fps . Strelok says I can hold bottom half of the boiler room out to 175 yd with a 150 yd zero and have meat in the freezer even with these little white deer and carry a 1000 ftlb (relax it's just a point of reference number) out to 225 yd . Reasonably it gives me a low node , aka sub , good enough for elk or moose inside 200 yd that I can pretty easily figure out hold over and even a big black bear or hogzilla will have difficulties over coming . Aside from the waste of lead , which I'm thinking should be maybe 15 lb of flashing and 1# of pewter but maybe more lead , I can't really see a down side . It's matching the 300gr hot rod factory stuff where it matters and should have a report on par with a 22rf .
Trouble is a lack of data .
Sure there's the 10-14 gr of Unique and shoot the Chrony until the numbers line up but I've seen some off the books 4350 , 4198 , 4895 and 3031 data . I have a personal rule about 3 sources , I have 1.5 and haven't gotten the Lyman #43 or CBH #4 out . The bug here is the short nose with 350 gr of bullet inside the case vs the usual 60/40 of 450-535 "standards" . I get some wiggle room with with the Marlin 1895G for pressure but I kind of doubt it's a half inch of seating depth .
So any help is a good place to start .
Ben and Waco have some data here and I think I may have snagged that but it's been 4-5 years and I thought there might be something new to add .
Fine but I don't want artillery markers im attached to my shoulders , retinas , and hearing needs . So with that in mind let's pretend I want to shoot a 500 gr RCBS 45-500 FN in my Marlin holding it to a max fps of 1100 fps . Strelok says I can hold bottom half of the boiler room out to 175 yd with a 150 yd zero and have meat in the freezer even with these little white deer and carry a 1000 ftlb (relax it's just a point of reference number) out to 225 yd . Reasonably it gives me a low node , aka sub , good enough for elk or moose inside 200 yd that I can pretty easily figure out hold over and even a big black bear or hogzilla will have difficulties over coming . Aside from the waste of lead , which I'm thinking should be maybe 15 lb of flashing and 1# of pewter but maybe more lead , I can't really see a down side . It's matching the 300gr hot rod factory stuff where it matters and should have a report on par with a 22rf .
Trouble is a lack of data .
Sure there's the 10-14 gr of Unique and shoot the Chrony until the numbers line up but I've seen some off the books 4350 , 4198 , 4895 and 3031 data . I have a personal rule about 3 sources , I have 1.5 and haven't gotten the Lyman #43 or CBH #4 out . The bug here is the short nose with 350 gr of bullet inside the case vs the usual 60/40 of 450-535 "standards" . I get some wiggle room with with the Marlin 1895G for pressure but I kind of doubt it's a half inch of seating depth .
So any help is a good place to start .
Ben and Waco have some data here and I think I may have snagged that but it's been 4-5 years and I thought there might be something new to add .
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