A couple years ago I picked up this rifle in 577-450 MH. The pics online appeared to be in worse shape than it was. My plan was to strip it to the action and build a sporter in 45-70 or 40-65. Once it arrived and I saw it was complete except for the bayonet I haven’t had the heart to cut it up.
I ordered some cases for it. Slugged the barrel at .475. Bought a Lee mold for the 480 Ruger and dies for the same. Got a shell holder and just size the necks. Can’t use regular dies because my press is 7/8-14. I just use a plinking load of about 12 gr of Unique and it goes bang every time. I can’t remember velocity but but I think around 1100 fps. Plenty for Whitetail but I haven’t took a deer with it yet.
Not sure what I’ll do with this old war horse.
What do you guys think?