In celebration of your new book, I went out and bought me a .457GNR....

Haha! Congratulations to you, Russell (from one jarhead to another!)! Welcome to our addiction!

Nice hammer Russ! Give us some details on the 457GNR...

It's a .475Max necked down to .458. It was designed to give .45-70 ballistics from a 7.5" tube. case are made by cutting .45-70 cases to 1.610" and running through the custom die set from Reeder. This one has a 5-shot cylinder on a stretch frame Ruger, a 5" bull barrel, and 'v' notch, gold bead sights. The sight blade on both the front and rear sights are changeable.

Whew! Warn me before you touch it off at the next CSA ....
Looks good, Russ.

That"s a nice looking gun.

Looks kinda neat, a little short though. Does it shoot worth a darn?

They called Russ Seyfried's 45 Colt a "short 458". I guess that one really is!

Cool gun to say the least.

Holy! Just what I want in a 4" gun. Jeez man. Pretty piece...

let us know if you have setback issues.

I remember I once refused to fire a monster hand cannon at the range and all I could say was "your a better man then me".....
Good luck with your new 475 Russ. James

I own a 14" (12" barrel + 2" comp).45-70 that I used to hunt deer and black bear with. Wound up with several pieces of .45-70 brass, some jacketed bullets and 2 .45-70 moulds, 1 for a 340gr and 1 for a 405gr, RFN. I'm going 'green' and recycling.

Here are some 're-cycled' .45-70 now .457GNR from today's 'prep'n.

I can't tell is the brass bottlenecked or just tapered to .458

The ones in the picture are neither. Waiting on the dies to form them, but from looking at a photo of the cartridge on Gary's website and looking/measureing the trimmed cases, my best guess is a taper.

That will be alot better than necked, which is why I mentioned set back issues. A taper cartridge should avoid that.

sweet piece!!

The dies arrived Tuesday and I was able to load some of the brass for testing. Out of the 20 cases I had cut to size, I ruined 2 getting the flaring die set and wound up with 18 loaded rounds. Today I drove out to a friend's 100yd range, marked off 25yds and set up a target.

The first five 'offhand' were high right, only 1 hit the target backing. Adjusting for windage, the next 5 were high, but on the backing. One more windage adjustment and an elevation adjustment and I was 'on'.



I then walked back to the bench and shot the last 3 at a dirt clod on the berm. Hit it once out of the 3 shots.

John Taffin stated in his article on TESTING the .475MAXIMUM that
abut 35 rounds at a setting was all he wanted to shoot. I concurr!

The load I was testing was 34grs IMR4227 with a 345gr cast .458 bullet and CCI 200 primers in a cut down (1.6").45-70 case.

I'll say it again - Nice hammer Russ! I shot today as well - and got shellshocked by a lot less gun...Recovered, but had to "tighten up" and concentrate hard to do so!