Hey Man, spelled it out all the way, W I N C H E S T E R and still have room left over! Just used a little extra glue here and there!

I do believe that somehow this thread got way off course, you are most likely responsible for this! Oh, well, it had turned rather silly anyway, when we all know that the true king of 500s is the 50 B&M Super Short!


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Waiting on someone to load some of those .510" x 535 Grain bangers in the 500 A2 ...

You just got winchester tattooed? and had some room to spare?

luckyly it's not U n i t e d S t a t e s R e p e a t i n g A r m s C o r p o r a t i o n!!

ah, well, with a fine enough font, even winnie is possible!

I was just having fun, for the most part, and definitely with the king stuff - I hope everyone knows.

I don't believe in monarchy as a form of government or among rifle rounds.

90% of choosing what we choose is half mental, to paraphrase the great Yogi Berra!

And for the record, I will damn sure skip the tatoos!

Macifej, I might try some of those light weight bullets some time, for plains game and such.

kmg3000,

ASquare called that the Ceasar model(then left hand version) if I recall correctly .

RIP, I see you took the 450's to 2825. I have a box I got real cheap and wanted to use them in my 510 Wells. Finding load data is the problem. I figured 2800 was about the top speed. These would be just for shootin, not killin.

PoppaW,
Funny thing about those GSC ".510"/450-grainers:
They were way oversize and I had to run them through a .510" sizer before loading them.

If you have not checked that bullet diameter, please do. Let me know if I got a strange batch, or are your bullets about .513" diameter too?

If you get a proper match of bullet diameter to groove diameter, I bet you could start at 95 grains of Hodgdon Benchmark and work up.

Should make a dandy deer and varmint rifle out of your .510 Wells.

I will have to look at them. I would have never thought to check. Oh looking back you had the GSC's. I have Woodleighs. Thanks for the start point.

I have a load for the 600gn Woodleigh worked out for my 505 Gibbs, and I chose to settle on 130gn of AR2209 (equiv H4350) for 2280fps. It will be below the design velocity of 2200 fps by the time it has gone 35 yards, so this should work well (I have not had the opportunity to try it on game yet). Today I finished some load testing with the 525gn Woodleigh bullet. I get 2500fps with 142gn of AR2209 (H4350). This is 300 fps over the design velocity, so it may over expand on big tough game. However, the load is still relatively mild, and if you could handle the recoil a higher velocity is definitly available. I can't get the 505 Barnes TSX here, but I am sure with a bullet like that at 2500fps there would not be much that could withstand a properly placed hit with one of them, and with relatively mild pressures (easy extraction, rounded primer etc) that has got to be a good thing. I am going pig hunting in a week, so I hope to try out the Gibbs with both the 525gn and 600gn Woodleighs on some (hopefully) decent sized boars.

I am going to shoot my Rem 700 375 Ultra Mag tomorrow if I think it is enough shooting 300grainers at 2945fps out of it I am going to forget about 500 asquares and 600 Nitro Expresses.

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Originally posted by kmg3000:
I am going to shoot my Rem 700 375 Ultra Mag tomorrow if I think it is enough shooting 300grainers at 2945fps out of it I am going to forget about 500 asquares and 600 Nitro Expresses.

Don't forget about them. Just wait for a different donor rifle. 375 RUM should keep a guy happy for a while.