Hornady 4500 bullets
 

Was wanting to know if anyone has tried the Hornady 4500 (.458) bullets? Wanting to try them for this deer season & was curious about performance.

Thanks,
Zach

There are quite a few people using them with good performance as far as has been posted.

What is a 4500 hornady bullet? Ray

45 Cal .458 300 gr HP

SKU: 4500 | 50/BX

Thanks Semi, i already looked it up and found it on there site.. Ray

Yep lots of guys use them. They dont need to be driven hard either IIRC. The jacket is fairly thin and a lot of 45/70 data/bullets are a good match for ML speeds.

This was some data i found comparing a few 45/70 458 bullet jackets.
Speer .030 estimated because its bonded
Sierra Pro-Hunter FNHP base: .020 tip: .018
Barnes Original FN .045 Barnes SS .032
Hornady HP base: .020 tip: .015
Reminghton HP base .020 tip: .015

Use a MMP Orange or a Harvester black crushrib depending on your bore.

Gm,

Thanks!
I was thinkin that they would be similar to 300 Rem. 458's but I don't see a lot of guys using them. I'm going to take some to the range in my Savage ML when this heat/humidity breaks. Goin to try some RL-7 & H4198 powder with BCR sabots.

Zach

You might take a look at the Sierra .458-300 grain bullet. I shoot that one a lot and really like the way it shoots.



View ALL Pro-Hunter Bullets

The traditional, flat base design of the Pro-Hunter® has been skillfully blended with Sierra's world-famous accuracy. Our custom-tapered Pro-Hunter® jacket design helps assure maximum expansion, optimum weight retention and deep penetration for game-stopping, one-shot performance.

http://www.sierrabullets.com/index.c...0&bullettype=0

THEN - I believe this to be a better production bullet, although it is not a .458... and assuming that you are shooting a 50 cal ML...

http://www.speer-bullets.com/product...g/default.aspx

http://www.speer-bullets.com/ballist...il.aspx?id=142

Sabot,

Thats some good info.
I have tried to stay with a .458 bullet since they shoot good in my Savage ML.
I have tried the Barnes Original--$$$, Horn XTP (.452),Rem 300's,etc.
I also want to try the deep curls as well.
Looking for 300 gr punch,pass thrus/blood trails. As mentioned, most shots are 150-170 tops!

Mark

Would a 300 grain .458 TMJ with a flat metplate be useful for hunting, or just for target?
Even if it didn't expand and just passed through, wouldn't a .45 wound channel be adequate to harvest deer due to having great penetration?
I thought that a flat metplate was suppose to smack hard with a fairly high shock value.
I'm just curious because I have some, but need to buy sabots.