BFR 475 Linebaugh

[Rifle 57]

Well just sent a money order today to White Eagle for his BFR 475 cant hardly wait for it to get here. I have been wanting something like this for a while. Any one have any idea's what weight bullet works in a BFR. I want to order a mold from Accurate molds for it.

[DrCaveman]

Man, i wish i could tell ya because i wish i had one. Good choice. Do you care to share the barrel length as that may bear on the proper boolit weight

My ignorance stated, i'd gun for a 400-425 grain boolit, LBT shape. Hard alloy, stout charge of h110

[Rifle 57]

The barrel is 7.5 inches . I have H110 and 296 on hand.
Thanks DrCaveman

[dubber123]

My brother has one, and I have an F/A. 400 to 440 grain boolits is all we have worked with, and all shot well. LEES inexpensive 400 grain mold makes an excellent practice boolit, and I have shot quite a few 1.5" 50 yd. groups with it. You will be able to get a 425 gr. boolit to 1,350 fps+ easily with your new toy, if you so desire. 8 grains of many of the common powders like Unique, Power Pistol, or even Bullseye make great practice loads that still move a 400 grainer about 900 fps. Have fun.

[44man]

400 Lee is good and up to 440 gr. I like my 420 gr. The BFR does not like lighter then 400.
My load with my 420 gr is 26 gr of 296, Fed 155 primer for 1329 FPS. The Lee was best at 26.5 gr.
A good light load with the Lee is 15 gr of HS-6. Don't fool with slower.
Mine is 7-1/2" too and my boolit is very close to an LBT WFN, has done under 1" at 100 yards, under 4" at 400 yards.
I use water dropped WW's, boolit is a PB. No gas check needed. I use an Ultra Dot on mine.
My best deer killer ever.
You want .476" boolits for it. No Keith style.

[subsonic]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?143269-copied-44man-s-boolit-for-the-475

[Rick B]

Good luck with yor new purchase. I emailed Tom at Accurate Molds with the dimensions for a BFR 475L. He redesigned one of his 48-420 flat base bullets for the BFR 475L. Ordered one last night. Mold number 48-420B.
Rick

[44man]

Subsonic's boolit is a great shooter too. My boolit will fit a Freedom and does well but the twist really likes a 350 gr better. I reached 1/2" with a 350 in the Freedom at 50 yards. If I remember, my 420 in the Freedom does about 1-1/2".
Now the small base band, something I can't explain at all, goes against everything ever written.
I remember when I got the Lee mold and it is a PB. I questioned it until I started to shoot it, then made my mold a PB too.
Grease grooves, I proved one GG is not good and went to more to see a huge accuracy difference.
I still think the huge GG on a Keith was to have more lube after slump. Anyway I have tried Keith styles in all of my BFR's and none come close. A Keith can cause off side wear in a gun.
Too tight of a cylinder will also do it. One thing I seen with Huntington guns is they have good cylinder side play. Fitting a Belt Mountain pin too tight is not good either. Bank vault lockup is a "feel good" thing.
I don't think any factory revolver can match a BFR.
Just don't expect light loads with fast powders to shoot heavy boolits with more then noise. The .475 is a BEAST and needs to be shot that way. It will never be a .38!

[Rifle 57]

Good luck with yor new purchase. I emailed Tom at Accurate Molds with the dimensions for a BFR 475L. He redesigned one of his 48-420 flat base bullets for the BFR 475L. Ordered one last night. Mold number 48-420B.
Rick
I think that I will do the same thing Rick, I trust Toms wisdom on molds.
Loren.

[Lefty SRH]

I have an Accurate 48-420S for my .480R and man it shoots!

[Rick B]

If the 48-420B works well, I will send it to Eric to have one of the cavities hollow pointed.
Rick

[Lloyd Smale]

44 man suggested a good inexpensive mold in the lee 400. Another good one is the rcbs 400 swc. both of those bullets did exceptionaly well in all the 475s ive owned

[44man]

The 400 Lee is like the 310 in the .44. It shoots good and when you come out of recoil to see a white belly on the ground, nothing else is needed.
The caliber is like a .44 on steroids, you do NOT need a HP unless you do not have a meat grinder!108009 Running doe at 55 yards, water dropped WW boolit, 420 WFN. I lost no meat at all but this is what they do inside.

[44man]

Deer shot in the neck under the chin at 76 yards, exit hole, instant drop. No meat loss at all. Butcher to the hole. 108013 You need nothing more. Just why do you look for a HP?

[Lloyd Smale]

have to agree with 44 man. Ive fooled with hps in the 475 and 500 and found if anything they hurt performance by lack of penetration. Even in the 44 and 45s there not needed. Now in the 357 they do help and even in the 41s in my opinion.

[bigboredad]

Tom designed the 48-420v for me but it was for a Ruger srh at the time I never imagined I could find/afford a bfr being on a fixed income. Anyway the gun gods shone on me and I ended up with a .475 bfr and if I could only keep one gun it would be the bfr. For the bfr I had Tom cut the 48-405E both molds work great all the way to 100 yards open sights with a 5.5 inch barrel. If I had to do it over I believe the 420b would be a great mold and o would not need 2 molds if I had the 420b. That had been my experience enjoy your new toy

[bigboredad]

Oh and as far a a HP design for me with the 405 that I designed I had it designed specifically so I wouldn't need a HP so far I've been very happy with it

[Rifle 57]

Thanks for all of the great info guys.

[44man]

Very few deer or any animal can withstand the .475. The thing is CRAZY. If I could only have one deer gun, that would be it. My WFN will work on any animal that walks, moose would be toast or buf. So will the Lee.

[Rick B]

Have to agree with 44 Man an Lloyd. A hollowpoint is not needed in the larger diameter pistol calibers. I just like the looks. I am looking forward to the new mold from Tom at a
Accurate Molds the 48-420B should really shoot in my BFR.
Rick

[Rifle 57]

Well I shot my BFR 475 today with 400 grn Lee cast and sized to .476 and 10 grns of Win- 231 and it shot very good groups at 25 yrds standing and free handed. Groups were right at a inch and a half to two inches. I thought that was ok for the first time shooting it. Also had a few loaded with 25 grns of 296 and wow that was a hand full and shot very well also.

[Rick B]

Glad your new revolver shot well. Came home from work today to find my new 48-420B mold from Tom at Accurate Molds. This is my first Accurate Mold, workmanship is outstanding. I really like the design, can't wait to shoot it.
Rick

[dhom]

My BFR seems to like almost anything from 355gr True Shot bullets to the 420gr LBT's. If you are looking for a plinking load try 10gr Unique with a 355gr True shot cast. Excellent accuracy in my 7.5" barrel. I have also shot the 400gr from a Lee mold with great results. Mid range I use HS-6 and switch to H110 or 296 for full power.

[44man]

15 gr of HS-6 with the Lee 400 was very good at 50 yards. I use 26.5 gr of 296 with it for hunting.
I use 26 with my 420 gr. All loads use a Fed 155 primer.
Since I hunt with the gun, I do very little with lighter loads with any revolver anyway. Even my old SBH might have had 100 light loads through it with over 76,000 rounds. IHMSA and deer.
15 gr of HS-6 will do it for deer in the .475 though. Unique will not grace my .475!
I have a real problem sending huge hunks of lead downrange that don't hit to the sights.

[dhom]

15 gr of HS-6 with the Lee 400 was very good at 50 yards. I use 26.5 gr of 296 with it for hunting.
I use 26 with my 420 gr. All loads use a Fed 155 primer.
Since I hunt with the gun, I do very little with lighter loads with any revolver anyway. Even my old SBH might have had 100 light loads through it with over 76,000 rounds. IHMSA and deer.
15 gr of HS-6 will do it for deer in the .475 though. Unique will not grace my .475!
I have a real problem sending huge hunks of lead downrange that don't hit to the sights.

I've shot the heavy loads you listed. No doubt they will get the job done, but for the time being I will be shooting whitetails.

[44man]

I've shot the heavy loads you listed. No doubt they will get the job done, but for the time being I will be shooting whitetails.
All I shoot. The .475 is tops with my loads. The deer are tough as nails. Never tell me they are easy to kill. I don't shoot hit deer on the road with a .22 or .38. All you need is a knife, the best ever but do you run down deer with a knife? Deer are easy to kill is so stupid I cant believe how many I find shot with magnum rifles.
Same old thing that a hole is all you need. A .45 kills better then a .44 because the boolit is larger is bunk. 800 fps will kill as good as 1300 fps is bunk. I do not want to track your deer shot at 800 fps. Lost dog food.

[dubber123]

In my much more limited hunting experience, velocity does matter. I shot 2 Russian boars of similar size, 1 with a .50 cal cartridge at about 900 fps., 1 with my .475 at 1,300 fps. Meplat on both boolits was virtually identical. The one shot from the .475 did a tremendous amount of damage, the holes from the *3* .50 cals was much less impressive.

For plinking don't be afraid of slow with the LEE boolit. While not up to 44mans standards, I had a load with Trailboss that clocked an honest 550 fps. at the muzzle, and shot in 1.5" or less at 50 yards with iron sights.

[Thor's Daddy]

...The .475 is tops with my loads...

Personally, I think the .475 BFR is tops with everyone's handloads. It seems to be a very tractable gun. Pick a bullet from around 385 to 440 grains, pick a powder, and find the load that works. From Bullseye to W296, I've heard of guys finding good loads with many, many combinations.

Would I hunt with them all? Probably not, but you certainly don't need top loads to take deer-sized game. I hurt my back just prior to my first season with my own .475 and was quite worried about pulling the trigger while up in a tree (I still cringe just thinking about it, ouch!). I ended up running a pretty middling load that season - 13.5 grains of HS-6 under a 400 grain WLN. That poor boolit was probably just creeping over 1000fps, but managed to topple a 200lb. buck with ease. Little hole in, little hole out, and an impressive amount of damage in between.

I've turned up the loads a notch since then, but won't worry a bit about using that load when my son gets old enough to join me on opening day.

[Rifle 57]

Glad your new revolver shot well. Came home from work today to find my new 48-420B mold from Tom at Accurate Molds. This is my first Accurate Mold, workmanship is outstanding. I really like the design, can't wait to shoot it.
Rick

You will love that mold from Accurate . They work like a dream I have several of them.