Calling all 500 Magnum shooters.

[bpatterson84]

Very true, but look at some of the old John Ross loadings. He was doing I believe a 450gr at 42gr H110, but the trick is less shank in the case, lowering pressure, think he was going after .2 shank in the case. I load a little out, and use a strong redding profile crimp, keep in mind the cylinder is pretty long, have plenty of space. Gotta say, it's an awesome load!

[Gunslinger1911]

I'll second bpatterson84, get as much shank out of the case as possible. I have a JR 5" and have an Accurate mould cut with John's boolit design - long nose / short shank - in 4 diff weights no less !
The Lee casts 460g for me, same powder charge with that and the JR 475g; the JR boolet kicks less and lower pressure.
When home tonight I'll look up some powder charges.

[olafhardt]

In my Handi Rifle I loaded the Lee 440 w/o gascheck and the Ranier 350 grain plated bullet over 16 grains of Tightgroup and shot at targets taped to a big sycamore log. The boolits went right through. The Lee modern Minie over 7 grains of Unique made a fine plinking load.

[Gunslinger1911]

Here is a pic of the JR boolits with a Lee for scale.

430g, 475g, 520g, 570g and Lee 465 w/ GC

[Gunslinger1911]

Lets see if this works : Lar45 hosted the pdf of John's data.
http://www.lsstuff.com/misc/j-ross500data.pdf
** Yea, sorry I scanned it sideways **

John really liked WC680 and WC820 (pulled surplus powders)
I got a gallon of 820 (actually 30 Carbine powder) !!
That's just about gone, can't get more right now - I'll have to work up loads with 296 or similar .

Cool factoid; 296 is good in the 500 and is just about the go to powder for the 22 TCM !

[bbailey7821]

If I understood you correctly, you're looking for a hunting load. I can help with that. I currently load the 400g Ross design Hollow-Point and use it in my TC Encore Rifle, SW 4" Revolver, and 10" BFR. It performs spectacularly on all game up to 300lb Hogs. Here's the boolit I speak of. You will not be disapointed, regardless of where you hit.



I use WW296 or H110 with Winchester Magnum Primers. PM me for details, if interested.

[dhenry132]

Lee 440 over 39gr H110 and large rifle primers. It takes a while to get good with it at distance(50-100m), but when you figure it out, you win. Dont rest it, you'll smash your face.

yes you will, LOL