Any 500 Wyoming Express owners out there?

by Bryan Pettet @, Sunday, April 10, 2016, 21:30 (3152 days ago)

I know Ken O'Neill has experience with them. I recently bought one of his 500s. There is some info on Gunblast and some reloading info at FA's website. I'm looking for more reloading data and specifically loads with Unique. I see Trall Boss data but I'm using Unique.

Any 500 Wyoming Express owners out there?

by Fowler, Sunday, April 10, 2016, 23:06 (3151 days ago) @ Bryan Pettet

About 10-12gr of Unique with whatever cast bullet you like should make for some pleasant loads. I remember shooting some in Gregg Richters with a 425gr LFN bullet that shot very well.

Thanks - Pearce wrote that...

by Bryan Pettet @, Monday, April 11, 2016, 06:48 (3151 days ago) @ Fowler

10 Gr of Unique and a 440 gave him about 890 fps. That's a practical reduced load.

What bullet molds are available...

by Bryan Pettet @, Monday, April 11, 2016, 15:32 (3151 days ago) @ Bryan Pettet

I'm looking for a plain base mold in the 440 gr weight range. RCBS has a 400 gr single bullet mold that is plain based. The nose length cannot exceed .395.

I see some 440 gr gas check molds. I see a ton of molds for the 500 S&W that are too long, the nose is wrong, John Ross designs, etc. Or I see great looking molds for the 500 Linebaugh. Nothing yet that is what I want. I've chacked LBT, N.O.E., Mountain Molds, RCBS, etc.

Maybe I should contact Bob Baker.

Try Accurate molds

by Cherokee @, Medina, Ohio, Monday, April 11, 2016, 16:33 (3151 days ago) @ Bryan Pettet

Thanks. I will check with them. NT

by Bryan Pettet @, Monday, April 11, 2016, 19:15 (3151 days ago) @ Cherokee

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Mountain Molds will ....

by Glen, Monday, April 11, 2016, 17:08 (3151 days ago) @ Bryan Pettet

....make whatever you like.

http://mountainmolds.com/

NOE also makes .50 caliber moulds:

http://noebulletmolds.com/

I will check with Mountain Molds...

by Bryan Pettet @, Monday, April 11, 2016, 19:17 (3151 days ago) @ Glen

NOE didn't have anything I was interested in. Thanks!

.500 WE and .500 JRH seem to share data

by brionic @, Tuesday, April 12, 2016, 14:47 (3150 days ago) @ Bryan Pettet

Jack Huntington, the gunsmith who developed the JRH and after whom it is named, went so far as to suggest using WE data for working up loads for the JRH.

Then he told me 440gr. TC over 10 gr. 231 @ 1,000 fps was the most accurate load he had found, after exhaustive tests.

Did I ever tell you about the day I "almost" invented the...

by Hoot @, Diversityville, Liberal-sota, Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 12:57 (3149 days ago) @ Bryan Pettet

.50 Wyoming Express?

Sitting on my reloading bench was a piece of 7mm Weatherby Magnum brass which had suffered through a previous experiment resulting in a collapsed shoulder. (I don't own a 7mm W'by; it was just a random piece of brass.)

Well, I decided as how there "weren't any belted pistol cartridges" (found out later how wrong that was), I'd just cut that piece of brass down and invent one. It was cut to the OAL of a .454 Casull with the reasoning that it had to fit into an existing platform. The case mouth needed to be reduced a bit in order to hold a 300gr .458" lead bullet. Once that was done, I popped it in my pocket to haul out now and then for unsuspecting folks.

When asked, "What in the world is that?", I'd tell 'em, "It's a 46 Texas Ranger." The next question usually was, "What the hell is a 46 Texas Ranger?" Then I'd relay the story of the Ranger who was asked, "Why do you carry a 45?" To which he replies, "Because they don't make a 46."

If I only had some .50" projectiles, I'd have been only a few years too late to the party. :-P

Nice. Kind of like stopping at 6 Up or Heinz 56. NT

by Bryan Pettet @, Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 21:00 (3149 days ago) @ Hoot

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