Bronco, I am not too enthused with the group he shot since it was only 20 yds. I would maybe be happy with that at 100 yds. That is a decent off hand group for 50 yds.

I ran into this thread on another site. I just bought a Raging Bull 480 and love it so far. I would have considered the BFR but it was $350 more.

http://forums.sixgunner.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11265

My .475 BFR will do around an 1" @ 25 yards off the bench (with both .475 Linebaugh and .480 Ruger loads). There's also an article on these guns posted to my website if you're interested.

Lee Martin
www.singleactions.com

MS, yes. I bought it last summer and made several molds for it. I killed two deer last season with it. Fantastic deer gun. One went 30 feet and the other went 30 yds. I use .44's, .45's and this one and grab a different revolver for each deer normally. I have been reading about tremendous accuracy with the .480 and want one.

Lee, my 45-70 BFR will not shoot off the bench no matter how I rest it. When I shoot Creedmore it will do an inch at 50 yds and I have no problem hitting at 200 even though I can't hold near as steady. Strange animal, that big beautiful hunk of steel. I only wish they made the .480 in 10".

Not to hijack the post, but have you killed anything with your bfr .45-70?

BFRShooter,

I think Magnum Research will do custom BFRs upon request. Give them a call and ask about a 10" .480 Ruger (I agree that it would be a neat gun).

Thanks,

Lee Martin
www.singleactions.com

Well have had mine a little over a month now and have not got to shoot as much as would like to (work go figure) But have tried 1 bullet Dry Creeks 400gr. SWC with H4227 and H110 in Hornady 475 cases also shot 2 boxes of Hornady 325gr 480 factories and the worst I have done is around 2" at 25yds. JD PBcaster@sixgunner forums also got one shortly after I did As referenced above we are both working on loads and emailing each other with range reports. John Taffin, Taffin Tests did an article on this pistol in the March/April issue of American Handgunner he was very impressed with his test gun this article can be found at Magnum Researches site along with his test loads. Hope this Helps