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Soft points take a much greater investment in
tooling and assorted equipment to bring on line. Basically, if I can't see
at least paying back the initial investment, to the break even point, in a
couple of years it doesn't make sense to go forward. The 475 and 500s are
doubly problematic. The vast majority of rifles that chamber those sizes
are double rifles, and no matter whatever proof offered, there will always
be a stigma of any sort of solid sectioned bullet being fired in a double.
If you remove doubles from the equation and are left only with bolt guns,
the market shrinks to the point of essentially disappearing. Sorry, but a
"special run" would require all that same tooling.

The 475 solids were made from a remaining supply of material from doing R&D
work on other calibers. I just finished off the last remaining material
(all sold) and if I do continue with the 475 at all, I will need to purchase
a special sized material just for 475 dia (i.e., it will have no other use
except for that caliber). That requires a minimum purchase of a ton of
material. Shortly, I have to make the decision whether I will continue with
the 475 and whether it will pay to buy that much material, and that is just
for the solids. There are several more people that are using them this
hunting season and if they report good results and the reputation of the
performance increases in stature, the greater the likelihood of that
purchase. After I have the material, the possibility of soft points
increases but I would say that they are pretty far in the future, if they
come about at all.

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Sorry I couldn't give the answer that you wanted about the 475 soft points
but I do appreciate the interest and the more people that express an
interest, the more likely that it will happen. That is how all the other
calibers came about. If the demand is there to justify production, I will
produce them.