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.408 bullets for a 400 Jeffery
08 July 2024, 09:38
twoseventy.408 bullets for a 400 Jeffery
Anyone have any 400gr. bullets for sale for a 400/450? Woodleigh makes .408 diameter but they have not run a batch since the fire. Best, Tom Van Diepen 541-403-1077 tvandiepen101@gmail.com
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08 July 2024, 20:51
LongwalkerWoodleigh bullets are very scarce, and they are the only source of that diameter besides some custom makers like Hawk. Perhaps you could consider purchasing a push through swage die from NOE bullet moulds? It should be no problem swaging a more standard .410" bullet to .408"
If you have machine shops close to you that use CNC machines, it is relatively easy for them to make you some out of copper rod.
Years ago I bought a CORBIN machine and dies to make large bore bullets.
Worked great.
But the limitations were that I was stuck with
The fact the each set of dies made one bullet diameter and weight.
So I bought a CNC lathe.
With this I make ever conceivable size or weight.
With G CODE a new bullet can be designed and made in minutes.
08 July 2024, 22:12
Michael RobinsonYou may want to try
Hawk Bullets. They advertise 0.408” diameter bullets for sale.
Mike
Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer.
08 July 2024, 23:10
hoofnitLee makes reasonable push thru sizer dies as well, as others have said should be no problem sizing down .410 bullets
09 July 2024, 21:47
Jgrabow6493Is this the rifle that you had the barrells slugged? Right barrel is .404 and left barrel is .406. Did the Hawk bullets work?
https://forums.accuratereloadi...241014862#4241014862
Jim
10 July 2024, 21:44
WoodHunterThis is a die I made to size .416 Hornady bullets down to .411 for my 400 Holland & Holland.
Easy to make if you have lathe access.
14 July 2024, 10:01
twoseventyThanks to all the responders. All good stuff. One of our members is sending me some bullets-AR is great.
...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men.
-Edward, duke of York
". . . when a man has shot an elephant his life is full." ~John Alfred Jordan
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand
Cogito ergo venor- KPete
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.”
― Adam Smith - “Wealth of Nations”