Just playing around with .458 300grn Lehigh.

[grouse]

I went to the range today to try out some new bullets for the Savage. I started with a 300grn-XXX that's what he called it. It shot okay but i didnt take any pics if that tells you anything. Even though these are .458 bullets i cant use the orange .458 MMP sabot because it's to loose in my bore.

Next up was the .458/300grn .458/210 bullet. Here again i needed to use the short black harvester sabot so i had a good seel with the bullets. I was pleasantly surprised how well this bullet shot. So right away i pulled out the chrono. I actually wasn't expecting these to shoot for some reason. 42grns of 4759 gave me an avg velocity of 2100fps. I didn't think that was bad at all. Here is one of my 100yard groups.



Next up was the same bullet with 60grns of N120. I new i would get increased velocity but here again the accuracy was surprising. Average MV was 2277. That's very immpressive with a 300grn bullet. Here again i needed the short black harvester sabot.

[Richard]

Grouse......Nice groups! But OUCH! on the price Of course if you just put together a hunting load and only shoot a box or less a year, its not too bad. At the number of shot I fire, each year, I would be in the poor house ;D
Richard

[tar12]

What does the 210 stand for?

[grouse]

Mar 15, 2009 17:39:12 GMT -5 tar12 said:

What does the 210 stand for?

That's actually a mistake. Should be 200.

[edge]

Very impressive looking bullets...and shooting

edge.

[Dave W]

Looks like two winning combinations. Nice shooting.

[deadeye]

i have met dave fricke of lehigh bullets,a genuine person into quality & delivers what competition shooters want.

[grouse]

Mar 15, 2009 19:53:16 GMT -5 deadeye said:

i have met dave fricke of lehigh bullets,a genuine person into quality & delivers what competition shooters want.

I get that impression for sure. Thanks

[encoreguy]

I have a variety of his bullets to try, but have not had time to do so yet. Very nice guy and his bullets are very nicely made! Nice report.

[artjr338wm]

Grouce, did Mr. Fricke say what the performance parameters are of his 200 grain and 300 grain .458 bullets in terms of a minimum and maximum (especially for the 200 grain bullet) velocity in which they were designed to open up on game?
And is this info listed at his website? Thanks for all your info about these amazing high performance ML bullets.

Thanks, Art.

[rangeball]

Art, I believe that info is on their website listed with each individual bullet.

[dave d.]

:)tom great shooting.i hope to be shooting some real soon out of my pac-nor .45

[grouse]

Mar 18, 2009 13:26:15 GMT -5 artjr338wm said:

Grouce, did Mr. Fricke say what the performance parameters are of his 200 grain and 300 grain .458 bullets in terms of a minimum and maximum (especially for the 200 grain bullet) velocity in which they were designed to open up on game?
And is this info listed at his website? Thanks for all your info about these amazing high performance ML bullets.

Thanks, Art.

It's all listed on his web-site. You could also email him with anything that is not on there.

[grouse]

Mar 18, 2009 16:52:50 GMT -5 dave d. said:

:)tom great shooting.i hope to be shooting some real soon out of my pac-nor .45

I cant wait.