Has anyone tried necking this one down yet? I thought that it might make a good single shot pistol round. Here in IL., we are limited to a case length of 1.4",but I suspect that in 30 or 35cal, this could be a good one. Any thoughts??

MFH

I think there are already plenty of single shot pistol rounds out there that would do as much or more than the S&W round. Take a 45-70 and blow it out straight and cut it off and you have a .475 Linebaugh. Cut it to what ever length you would like and you could neck it down, or leave it full length like the VVC rounds. Also, you have the .358 JDJ/Bellm rounds that do plenty.

These are some of the options I see where brass is more readily available. Now, if you just want to be different then build one and let us know how well it does. Sean

At one time Freedom Arms was offering to rebarrel Ruger No. 3's to the .454 necked down to .22 caliber. It was a very nice little single shot cartridge. Wildcats do not have to be practical or fill a blank spot in the cartridge line-up. Fooling with wildcats is fun. As long as we keep that in mind we can have fun and keep a few gunsmiths in been and cornbread....

just wandering is there any other rounds that can be shot safley in a 45-70 barrel its a single shot so dont have to werry about ejecting? jason

use 348 WIN case strong case able to able real bullet , 500 Linebaught or 50 Alskan are base on 348 blow out

500 SW case quality ?????????????? 500 SW availbility ???????????

good shooting

DAN TEC

i was just wandering like shooting 357mag in a 357max or a 38 in 357 mag.not trying to blow my self up. jason

The only advantage I see to the S&W 500 Magnum over the 50-110/348 case is the smaller rim. This might make a difference when adapting the case to some actions/calibers (i.e. more metal left on the extractor and less/easier machining to do the conversion).
Also the rim diameter could make a difference to some revolver cylinders. Freedom Arms wasn't able to fit the original 475 Linebaugh due to the size of the 45/70 case rim. When Buffalo Bore redeisgned the case to make the rim smaller and put it into production Freedom Arms was able to start chambering for the 475 Linebaugh.

Both 500 Magnum and 50-110 cases are available from Starline, so there shouldn't be any worries about availability or quality. There might be an advantage in case wall thickness, (and having to ream case mouths and turn case necks) but I don't know which way that advantage might go - probably depend on exactly what you are trying to do.

Basically, what my intention is/was to get performance close to 308 levels in a 15" barrel. This may not even be an attainable goal, but it seemed that it might have potential. The catch is that the case length cannot exceed 1.4" for a bottleneck case. Straight wall is okay, so I may just go with a 45-70 barrel. I would just prefer to stay 30-35 cal. No reason, just preference.

MFH

In order to get 308 performance from that short of a barrel, and that (relatively) small of a case you will have to drive pressure far higher than most pistol cases are rated for. Many folks have asked us to neck our 458 SOCOM to .308 for that same reason, but the resulting performance was disappointing at best (at 35000 psi).

Now, we have in the works a round that uses a 1.6" long case that at 63K psi, with 150 gr bullets, and in a 24" barrel, duplicates 308 Win performance from a 24" barrel.

But alas, rimmed it is not.