Matt
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Got the itch to get the big rifles out and shoot some cast in the “African” rifles.
Whitworth .375, M70 .458, Ruger .416 Rigby.
Decided to recover some brass and shot my last four factory .458 rounds
and 16 reloads with 400 grain jacketed bullets at about 2300 FPS. WOW. Knocked the crap out of me and reminded me why I quit shooting anything but moderate cast in them. Then I adjusted the 1x4 Leupold on the .416 the wrong way and did this to my bullet trap. I built it in 2013 and after tens of thousands of rounds finally damaged it.
Then fired a total of about moderate 80 cast loads. Still have a recoil headache; getting old is tough.
Whitworth .375, M70 .458, Ruger .416 Rigby.
Decided to recover some brass and shot my last four factory .458 rounds
and 16 reloads with 400 grain jacketed bullets at about 2300 FPS. WOW. Knocked the crap out of me and reminded me why I quit shooting anything but moderate cast in them. Then I adjusted the 1x4 Leupold on the .416 the wrong way and did this to my bullet trap. I built it in 2013 and after tens of thousands of rounds finally damaged it.
Then fired a total of about moderate 80 cast loads. Still have a recoil headache; getting old is tough.
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