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That is some purdy rifles, where is the dead piggy pics?

How's the recoil?

Awesome... I was wondering who would fill the void in Marty's absence!

Glad to see you folks step up with an offering.

Any plans for an SBR appropriate length?

nice

I love my 458 SOCOM Marty build for me and I think I have to add one of those Uppers to my SBR

+1 and request for photos of some of your recovered copper flowers.

WANT!!

LW build on the block (well LW for a .458 I guess)

Any chance of barrel photos alone? Maybe without the Trim rails?

I got to take my first hog using nv with Bill's carbine. What recoil? Take my word for it, when you are hunting, you never notice the recoil. May be a bit more when you're shooting from a bench but I doubt it will turn anyone off to the cartridge.

Are barrels & bolts going to be available for sale or only complete uppers?

Parts to come later.

Loading is the same as for any bottle necked cartridges. The best dies IMO are Redding with Hornady and Lee being also rans. Brass is available from Starline but between runs it can dry up for a couple or three months at a time so get plenty when it is available, loading is not difficult but many do have sticking cases in the die problems if they use spray on lubes so stick with Imperial Sizing Wax for best results. Also, when you get your rifle, get CAR gassed. Leave the midlength to the 5.56 fan boys.
The best powder is H110 and Lil-Gun giving the highest velocities but it will not work in a midlength gassed rifle most times. Re #7 works well in all gas lengths (handgun, CAR, midlength) but is slower than H110 or Lil-Gun. Do not go with any barrel in .458 SOCOM that is rifle gassed. It will not work worth a tinkers damn and you powder choices would be extremely limited.
Barrel length really does not matter. Between 12.5 and 20 there is not 50 fps difference in the same load shot on the same day in the same conditions. If you have 12.5 inches of barrel that is enough, 16 keeps you legal without SBRing, and anything longer than that just gets in your way, adds more weight, and adds very few if any fps.
When reading pressure signs the job is easy. You DON'T. The SOCOM uses large pistol primers. The maximum pressure for the .458 S as well as the Beowulf is 35K. By the time you see any pressure signs you are WAY over the 35K psi limit. Stick to established data. Forget the notion that you can load until you see the primers flatten and then back off a little. That will still put you about 8,000 psi over the maximum pressures allowable.
Bullet cost is what you make it. You can shoot ultra cheap hard cast gas checked bullets, lots of us do, and while it MIGHT clog up your gas tube over time, many of us have thousands of rounds of hard cast gas checked bullets downrange and have not clogged one up yet. And gas tubes are cheap. Next, Remington 300 gr. and 405 gr. bullets are accurate and make good light game and blasting bullets. After that, the sky is the limit. You can spend as little or as much as you want on bullets. IMO the best bullet for the SOCOM is the Barnes 300 gr. TTSX but it is about a buck a pop just for the bullet alone. But it is outstanding.
The SOCOM can use any bullet from the Lehigh 100 gr. aluminum bullet to 525 hard cast and 600 gr. jacketed bullets. It's all what you want to use and how much you want to spend. Any bullet for the .45-70 will pretty much work in the SOCOM so long as you keep the COAL to 2.250 inches or less. It also uses standard 5.56 mags and most rifles do not need the mags tweaked at all.

That sounds great so far.

I do keep a good bit of Re 7 on hand for my 90 TNT loads.

What about Bullseye ? That is what I use on my .45acp. Not sure if that's way too fast or not though.


Sounds like the 12.5 is the way to go.

With the 12.5, and the most common loads for it, what are your supersonic velocities so far?

Thanks

That all sounds really good.

I'm thinking 12.5" when I try and get my project going.

Looking good Bill, i've got one of the factory guns, guess I'll have to start thinking about adding one to the collection

Well now that it seemed to have worked (-:

A real good boar taken with 300gr Barnes TAC TX



And an Aoudad shot this past Fri



And a couple of goats my wife shot, also with Barnes