Any better or worse ideas as to manufactured ammo, iffin one was to buy some to get started? Shop I bought the Encore barrel from only had "reduced recoil" loads stocked and I'm not recoil averse in large bore hangunland, just never owned a .460 before. Midway pricing looks like almost might as well just roll them all myself.

Factory loads worth bothering with or should I just buy brass and make my own 15" barrel oriented loadings to begin with? I'm guessing the factory loadings are all more wheelie gun/S&W oriented rather than Encore oriented.

Its all about price for me if I can buy factory ammo for what I can buy brass and load for I buy factory and shoot that up to get the brass. If I can buy brass and componants for less then factory I go that way.

I always buy componets and load my own. that way I can start out with light loads and get comfortable with the gun. especially in something like a .460

Get brass and load 'em. Just make sure your brass is once-fired before you work up to max loads.

John

Encores and Contenders do not recoil the same as revolvers.Buy the dies and brass and start with lower power loads and work up.Full house loads with out a muzzle brake are going to be more than you thought.

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Originally posted by OLBIKER:
Encores and Contenders do not recoil the same as revolvers.Buy the dies and brass and start with lower power loads and work up.Full house loads with out a muzzle brake are going to be more than you thought.

That's what I was thinking. My Mike Bellm ported .45-70 Encore barrel of 18.5" OAL (wanted to be able to use it as a rifle if I ever get around to a buttstock for one of my Encore frames) is about par in recoil with my basically stock .45-70 BFR, although the recoil increases a bit in the BFR as you unload the wheel, not a lot, but it's noticeable when you lose the ballast of 1620 grains of lead + the minor weight of brass and powder. Not as stout of recoil as the BFR with the .450 Marlin wheel installed, though :-)

If you're gonna kill a hog, you may as well make it emphatically dead, right?

Out of morbid curiosity, although I should web search it, any idea why they named it .460 when it's nominally 452 thou?

Thanks,
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