ok here my idea on the model 460vxr revolver..

[henry2]

iam going back to alaska to live and work and i been wondering about the 460vxr revolver and useing it for back county wear when working outdoors and was also useing for handgun hunting up there for moose and deer here in alaska

one of the ideas i had was to do the four caliber conversion that T.K.custom offers on there website to shoot the four calibers in 460 .454 casull 45.l.c. and 45.acp cal ..plus i reload for the cals..the 45,acp cal is for the 1911 i allready own have a lot of hardball pratice ammo for it and i can train with the revolver a lot cheaper in the long run with the design for useing a aimpoint as a major sighting system with a custom fixed single arm machined scope mount system along with a custom double d leather chest holster for wearing around the area iam going to work and for hunting ..

here is part of the plan for the diff calibers of ammo

so is the list
460 cal for moose and bear protection
454.cal for deer hunting
45.l.c for diff small game up here
45.acp cal for pratice

i can taylor hunting ammo for diff use of the revolver .along with a couple extras moonclips for the diff ammo ..

so good idea or bad idea to do the four caliber convension of the revolver

 

[buck460XVR]

I see no real need to reload 4 calibers for the same gun, unless you get a kick out of it. The cost difference to reload those 4 calibers is so little once you have the .460 cases, that from my experience it isn't worth the bother. Also from my experience, the difference how each different caliber prints when shot is enough that the monies saved from using the lesser calibers will be lost.... because unless you like shooting "kentucky windage", you'll end up wasting ammo sighting the revolver every time you decide to shoot a different caliber thru it. Instead of shooting 4 different calibers thru the same gun, I suggest you shoot one caliber and load differently for it. If you are recoil sensitive, Trail Boss works very well in the .460 for reduced loads.

 

[84CJ]

Strike 454 from the list. There is not enough diff to worry with it. My 460 likes 460 ammo and the only 454 run through it thus far was not so great. 45 ACP could be interesting for practice. But if you hand load why not just use the 45 LC brass. I would set it up for one load and use it if the 460 will stop a bear it will stop a deer so forth and so on.

 

[duckloads]

I can overlap my 460 loads and 45 colt loads. 45 acp conversion would just be a novelty to me.

Out of my 460, I shoot 250 gr and 300 gr hornady XTP's with a full, but NOT compressed load of trailboss. I also shoot the 200 gr Hornady FTX's with 50.5 gr H-110.

The 250 gr trailboss and 200 gr H-110 loads print close enough together. I shot one group of three of the 200 gr FTX loads that cloverleafed at 100 yds. The 250 gr trailboss loads hit an 8" plate at 100 yds. I have no reason to even shoot 45 colts from my XVR.

Don't even try lead bullets out of the XVR. to me, they tumble and just go over their somewhere. It must have to do with the gain twist rifling.

Do you have a good scope on the XVR? A burris 2-7x32 would be a better way to spend your money. The Burris has a MUCH better field of view than any other handgun scope that I have researched.


Good luck

 

[henry2]

i read the pro and cons about i am going with the four cal convesion of the revolver for i really not like the 454 much and i can get a good deer load out of the 45.l.c round and keep the 45.acp for pratice ..

i been looking on line for 460 bullets and powders and primers for the round to make a good bear defense round ..the reason behind the red dot scope is just easlyer for me to pick the dot up when on a target and if the scope fails it becomes a big express dot sight system to shoot though ..i going to the range and do a couple of drills where the scopes fails and i have to center the chargeing animal in the scope and shoot drills ..

so i will let you know how it goes..