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Yesterday at the Austin Texas gun show I saw a 450 alaskan made from a military mauser action with a heavy barrel about 18" long. It had a lyman receiver sight and probably a marble gold dot front sight. Dies, brass, and another stock were all for $450.00. I think it had been rebored because the barrel contours looked like a 98 mauser. Stepped barrel and all. I was actually tempted. | ||
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You should have bought it . | |||
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I have difficulty thinking of a more useless gun. Most custom bolt action rifles for rimmed cartridges do not feed worth a crap. You would be much better off with a Whitworth .458 Win Mag which I have seen from $400 to $650 at gun shows. | |||
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You could do a number on the 450 Marlin. We had one made up in a Winchester SS short action and loaded the rounds out to 3" and it will shoot. It was very accurate and in a 20" barrel to boot. My partner shot a bull bison with a 350 gr. Barnes X bullet at I think 2350 f/s and it went from chest to ass and dropped him like a ton of bricks. That is some potent weaponry. square shooter | |||
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I am with 500 grains on this one. I have had 2 bolt action 458,s. They respond very well to being loaded down from 45/70 ballistics up to 458 Magnum ballistics. They did not seem finiky at all. One of my 458's was a Whitworth, it was a nice rifle. The action needed a little smoothing up, but it shot good. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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I cannot imagine how you could be tempted on it at even 200$. Feeding problems in the making. Just get a .458 and go hunt. Load it down if you want. | |||
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i'd have asked him to plop in soem dummies, show me it fed, and then left with it jeffe opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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My Win. M70 .450 Marlin works great using bullets up to 500 grs. My brother in-law used it to take his last Brown Bear. One couldn't ask for a quicker, cleaner kill. Lawdog  | |||
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I like to report on some of the weird stuff I see at the gunshow. I have not seen a whitworth 375 or 458 at a gunshow yet. I would buy the 375 in a heartbeat. Meanist thing I ever saw was a Ruger #3 375 winchester hulled out to a 375 H&H. Did have a recoil pad instead of a steel butt plate. I also saw a Ruger 1A in 22 long rifle about 3 years ago, but I didn't have the cash. | |||
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mikethebear -- I traded a rather nice Whitworth Mark X in .375 H&H with Cabelas in Dundee Michigan about 6 months ago. Haven't seen them advertise it, but it might be worth calling them at the gun library. "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Or the wildcat .458x2" American. Same thing as the Marlin round but cases can be made from most any standard magnum brass. | |||
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