.460 S&W Ammo Request

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Hey everyone!

I don't know if you have tried the Barnes Bullets VorTx ammunition, but it is a hoot! I brought down my elk last year with a .308 with 1 shot at about 250 yards. They have some really cool and informational videos on their products on youtube also so I encourage you to look them up.
Anywho, I am planning on buying an X frame model .460v come this spring for hunting and now I'm addicted to those bullets. Problem? They do not make the .460 S&W right now. I emailed them and asked if they were planning on it, to which their response was "if we get more requests, we have been thinking about it." So please email Barnes with requests if you will! I think it would benefit more people than just me :D
Thanks.
 
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If you are really serious about gettin' a .460, you also need to seriously consider reloading your own ammo for it. The .460 is a handloaders firearm. Not only does customizing your own ammo for it optimize it's potential, it also makes the ammo affordable enough to shoot it on a regular basis. Reloading ten boxes of ammo as opposed to paying for factory loaded Barnes will pay for a single stage set-up for reloading the .460.
 
^^^^^^^ As stated above ^^^^^^^
Reloading is your best friend if you own an X Frame
 
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I am planning on getting into reloading for sure! I've gone over the numbers for that gun and all of my firearms and it just makes sense with how much I shoot now, and if I add guns it makes all the more sense. But still, I would like to see these come about! Because they're effective, and if you get one box it'll last you for a few years.
 
wildenout said:
and if you get one box it'll last you for a few years.
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Have you shot much handgun? One box of 20 ain't enough to become proficient enough with a handgun to justify hunting with it. I shoot my .460 a least once a month and put more than that thru it each time out.
 
buck460XVR said:
Have you shot much handgun? One box of 20 ain't enough to become proficient enough with a handgun to justify hunting with it. I shoot my .460 a least once a month and put more than that thru it each time out.
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I meant one box of the Barnes bullets, since you'd only load a few in the gun before each hunt. They wouldn't go to the range! Of course one box would go pretty quickly at a range.
 
wildenout said:
Hey everyone!

Anywho, I am planning on buying an X frame model .460v come this spring for hunting and now I'm addicted to those bullets. Problem? They do not make the .460 S&W right now.
Thanks.
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While they don't currently make the Barnes Bullets VorTx ammo in 460 Magnum they do produce it in 454 Casull which will also fire in your M460v.I'm sure that can hold you over until Barnes gets around to producing their Barnes Bullets VorTx ammo in 460 Magnum too.

If you do decide to handload Barns does sell the XPB bullet used in that ammo for the 460 Magnum in weights of 200gr and 275gr along with a 250gr XPB bullet for the 454 Casull.
 
wildenout said:
I meant one box of the Barnes bullets, since you'd only load a few in the gun before each hunt. They wouldn't go to the range! Of course one box would go pretty quickly at a range.
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What the 'ell you gonna use at the range? First off, ALL factory .460 ammo is expensive. So if you're gonna shoot $2-$3 a round factory ammo at the range, you may as well practice with what you are going to hunt with. Unlike a long gun where you can sight it in, set it down and pick it up a year later and still shoot well enough to go deer hunting, shooting handgun takes constant practice. Also unlike long guns, handguns shoot different ammo very differently. While your .308 may shoot all 168 gr ammo, regardless of manufacturer, equally well, or at least close enough for deer hunting, handguns are much pickier. Because of barrel dwell in big bore handguns, small differences in velocity or bullet weight makes for big differences in POI. From my PC X-Frame, the difference of POI @ 50 yards between factory 200 grainers and my handloaded 300 grainers using ther same POA, is over 12 inches vertically. You need to practice with your hunting rounds until you can put every round in a pie plate at the distance you are going to shoot. The maximum distance you can do this is YOUR maximum hunting range. If you cannot afford to practice with your hunting ammo or even practice much at all with any .460 ammo, I seriously recommend you get a .44mag instead. Ammo is much cheaper. The main reason folks get rid of a .460 is not because they aren't fun to shoot or they aren't accurate, it's because their owners could not afford to feed them the diet they need for them to become proficient with them. If your are not proficient with your handgun, you should not be hunting with it. You owe that much to your quarry.
 
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