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.

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.

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

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

http://accuratemolds.com/catalog.php?page=14

....make whatever you like.

http://mountainmolds.com/

NOE also makes .50 caliber moulds:

http://noebulletmolds.com/

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

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.

.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.

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