I have a Win 458 also.  Have shot it with factory 500 grain full metal jacketed bullets. The rifle has a White Line recoil pad and a long pull so you don't get your thumb stuck in your eye.   Built it for my dad about 1984. It has a total of forty rounds through it. I'd post a picture but it's not a single shot.   

Real handy here if I get any Elefinks trampling the garden.

Here's an example of the .50-140 in full BP loads. I watched this when I got mine, and immediately knew reduced loads were in my future.

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50-110's are pretty neat.  I have a double SxS rifle in that chambering.  Great stinky fun with 110gr of 2F and a 570gr RFN from the same mold I used for my old 500 NE 3".

I will have my nephew make a video when I shoot the 50-140 in the Wickliffe.  Monday I go to the eye surgeon to find out how long I have to wait.  I'll hold off the smokeless HV loads for awhile.

Rich

Show me yours and I'll show you mine.  In a PM of course.   


short barrel I guess

In the late sixties I had a prewar mod 70 magnum action and chambered it in .458 Win. With a twenty inch bbl. It was going to be a back up rifle for bear hunting in Alaska (another story) it had a ramp front and Redfield rear and weighed in the neighborhood of 7.5-8 pounds I decided it needed more oomph so Keith Francis ground a .450 Ackley reamer for me as I had a couple of hundred Norma cylindrical brass with .300 H&H head size and old man Barnes made a bunch of .600 gn spitzer bullets for it...it was lights out for elk. But wound up shooting jack rabbits with it using 500 gn lead bullets at around 2200 FPS..surprisingly it would skin out a Jack reabbit with that load. As I recall recoil was not too bad Wish I still had that rifle.
Cheers Richard