Reeder Custom Guns - my 450 GNR with a 500 grain soft point bullet

Gary Reeder
my 450 GNR with a 500 grain soft point bullet
Monday, October 14, 2019, 17:39

put my Cape Buff down with one shot. I hit him quartering toward me and he dropped with one shot. You can see the entrance wound just above the point of shoulder.
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The 50 AK has about the same power as the 450 GNR as both are based on the same piece of brass and using about the same weight bullet and so on. So to answer your question, if you put the bullet in the right spot, yes it will work.

Misfits openion - Alcorn, 2019-10-14, 15:47
- Alcorn, I watched you drop a Buff with your 416 - Amede, 2019-10-14, 18:37
  - Just for something different (nm) - Alcorn, 2019-10-14, 18:59
- My opinion is with a handgun you’re - Blake, 2019-10-14, 17:45
- my 450 GNR with a 500 grain soft point bullet - Gary Reeder, 2019-10-14, 17:39
- A friend of mine took an elephant with a 50 Alaskan rifle .. - Jim Taylor, 2019-10-14, 17:29
- You’d need lots of mass to get penetration - WB, 2019-10-14, 17:17
  - Sir Sammuel Baker stated - Abin Sur, 2019-10-15, 16:25
- I would think so. However - Abin Sur, 2019-10-14, 17:02
  - several professional hunters have received a slap on - gary reeder, 2019-10-14, 21:16
    - 476 GNR is no slouch. (nm) - Andy S, 2019-10-15, 11:48
      - .476 500 gr. Monolithic Solid - WB, 2019-10-15, 17:13
        Exactly right Scotty, that would do the job. (nm) - Andy S, 2019-10-15, 20:28
  - 530gr. - Alcorn, 2019-10-14, 17:32
    - you should be able to. My 450 GNR was a 500 grain at 1900 - Gary Reeder, 2019-10-14, 17:43
      - So true! (nm) - Alcorn, 2019-10-14, 19:03
        we will be on the same hunt in May and I am going for a - gary reeder, 2019-10-14, 20:55
        Larry Kelly killed elephant with a 44mag..whats the problem? (nm) - Woody, 2019-10-15, 08:30
        YES AND ELGIN GATES KILLED A LION - JT, 2019-10-15, 14:19
        but it was a very special 44 as the bullet was - Gary Reeder, 2019-10-15, 10:46
        the company that did the teflon bullet for Larry went on to - Gary Reeder, 2019-10-15, 15:15
        And......the rest of the story! Love hearing the back story (nm) - Drdougrx, 2019-10-15, 14:42
        44 Elephant bullets - Alcorn, 2019-10-15, 16:23