457 magnum? Never had heard of it before.

[guzzijohn]

While I was in a pawn shop today there was a like new Marlin SS guide rifle in a 457 Magnum. Never had heard of that one before. It was stamped on the barrel. The clerk showed me some rounds that came with the rifle. It will also shoot 45-70.
Anyone here familiar with this cartridge?
GuzziJohn

[mcwoodduck]

Are they just renaming the 45-70 hot loads 457 mag?
So if you want the bottom end of the 458 Mag loads you ask for them and do not get confussed with trapdoor loads and ruin an old hinge gun and be called lefty for ever more?  Or did they add .10 of an inch so it will not chamber in the 45-70 guns?
 

[quickdtoo]

It's a WWG gun, basically a 45-70 loaded to a longer COL, Hodgdon has data for it.

Tim

http://www.realguns.com/archives/184.htm

http://data.hodgdon.com/main_menu.asp

[Blackhawker]

In reference to the other thread,  "tactical 30-30 lever action"...or whatever it's titled:  Now THAT'S what a tactical levergun should be!   

[Rifleman1st]

What did they wany for that guide rifle? I've been looking for one of those.....

[Thebear_78]

Its kind of a gimmick for wild west guns.  You can duplicate those loads with heavy loads in starling brass pretty easily.  They do pretty decent work though and if the price is right it would be worth picking up.

[Lloyd Smale]

buddy of mine had one of there take down copilots at one of the linebaugh seminars chambered for it. It was a slick handling gun.

[corbanzo]

Those take downs are nice... I have to take a peep at them every time I go by the shop.....


The 457 mag will shoot both WWG's proprietary .457 mag or .45-70.  so just think of it as a 45-70+p   


They do both chamberings for the guide gun, and the take down version.