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Offline rickyp

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.458 Boat tail spritzer?
« on: November 10, 2005, 12:10:12 PM »
Does anyone make a .458 boattailed spritzer bullet in about 250-300 gr?
I was thinking this might me good for longer range white tailed deer out of my 15 inch 45-70 encore.

what is the lightest .458 bullet do you make

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.458 Boat tail spritzer?
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2005, 06:36:33 PM »
Several months ago I picked up a 2S .458 set that has both a dish as well as flat face external punches for the CS and PF dies. It's meplat is .125". Haven't had time to try it out yet. I don't believe you'll ever see a BT or RBT set in this caliber. That design is basically reserved for sub-35 caliber slugs that are expected to perform equaly well thruout the range of  1200-2700 fps. Flat Base bullets tend to become slightly unstable at subsonic speeds at the end of their flight, so BTs are excellent for 600 yard shots. I don't think .458s are used with such ranges in mind. That's why most of them have flat bases and very round noses ( 1E or 3/4E), or flat noses ( meplat of .3 or .4): they are used for very short ranges to make really big holes. Spitzer bullets in this caliber are usually 2,3, or 4 S and are sort of hard to find, and are, I believe, only slightly more stable than the RNs, due to the velocities usually loaded (recoil can be brutal at 2200+ fps). 8)

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.458 Boat tail spritzer?
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2005, 05:29:47 PM »
we will have flat base spitzer .458 bullets sometime in fed 2006




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.458 Boat tail spritzer?
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2006, 05:03:25 PM »
Slightly off topic, but NEI has a .458" cast bullet with a half caliber meplat and a boat tail.  It's designed for optimum transonic and subsonic terminal performance.  It casts about 450 grains.