Hi all, I'm thinking about starting a .com store.
I'm looking into haveing a run of loading dies made for the NE and big bore calibers that are not in the main stream. should be able to offer them around $85 with a quantity purchase.

which calibers do you think are the most loaded?
I'm thinking of this order
470NE
500NE
404 Jeffry
505 Gibbs
450 no.2
450-400
???
Any thoughts?

I think the 'most loaded ' big bore cartridges are:
.375H&H (I know, it's really a medium bore )
.458 Win. Mag.
.416 Remington
.470NE, etc.

George

quote:

Originally posted by Lar45:

which calibers do you think are the most loaded?
I'm thinking of this order
470NE
500NE
404 Jeffry
505 Gibbs
450 no.2
450-400

Out of this list I would rank them as follows in terms of popularity:

1. 470 NE
2. 404 Jeffery (but it will overtake 470 NE in the next 10 years)
3. 500 NE and 450-400 tied.
4. 500 Jeffery beating .505 gibbs by a small margin, but that will change with the CZ550 when the .505 will take 3rd place in this ranking.

quote:

Originally posted by GeorgeS:
I think the 'most loaded ' big bore cartridges are:
.375H&H (I know, it's really a medium bore )
.458 Win. Mag.
.416 Remington
.470NE, etc.

George

Yes George, I thought about those, but factory dies are availible for them at a reasonable price already.

lay in a good supply of .600OK's while your at it.-Rob

I would have thought the .458 winnie and .375 would be the most loaded.

A .45-70 easily beats all of these hands down. I guess you have to define "big bore" first.

Brent

May be the .458 Lott?

AT those prices I woul start with the 9.3s and go all the way up...

Go to Huntingtons site and look up their die groupings and that will probably give you idea and ditto for Redding.

375 H&H for example is in the group with 270, 30/06 7mm Rem etc

At the die prices you are talking about perhaps your posting is not aimed so much at the most common big bores loaded but the most common big bores loaded from a list of the less popular big bores of those that are not considered on the main stream.

Mike

LAR45,

Don't forget the 416 of noble heritage! The Rigby! Hugh

Yes, I should have stated the most common of the uncommon. The ones that don't have reasonabley priced dies already.

Thanks for your input.

I think 500 Grains list would be close but I would add 450 Rigby and because of the CZ.

I would also imagine 450 Nitro would be there because of Ruger 1 conversions.

There is probably quite a lot of reloading for some of the smaller English calibres like 318 WR, 280 Jeffery etc because Woodleigh make all the strange diameter bullets but I imagine those guns change hands and dies are already there for them.

I don't think you can judge much from the forums, well definitely not with common rifles/calibres. Remington discontinued the Sendero yet the Sendero rifle was common on the forums and people seemed very happy with them.

Perhaps the people making chambering reamers such as Clymer and JGS and so on could be your best guide.

Mike

imho.. for various reasons, i think this is probably a true popularity level, or at least directional. yep, i think that the flanged nitros are that far down the list. I bet cz has made more 416 rigbys than there ARE say "500 NE"

(.375 and up, 3000ft-lbs energy+)
375 HH
458 winmag
416 RIGBY (cz sells LOT of these)
416 rem
458 lott (watts/ackley)
404 jeffery
416 taylor
378/416/460 weatherby (if you lump them all together)
510wells/500a2
470nitro
500 jeffery
450 ne #2
500 Nitro
505 gibbs (there just aint alot of these)


I am certain that there are more of Dave's 470 mbogo than there are 700 HH NE.

jeffe

Of the NE cartridges you mentioned the 470 wins hands down, followed by the 450-400, the rest would just be a guess on my part....