Gary Reeder
That was what I wanted. When the 500
Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 15:56

LB came out you had the choice of a hot top end load or the hot top end load, no medium load was available. But then again John Linebaugh didn't design the cartridge for close range lightweight bullets. John specialized in the heavy bullets as hot as you could stand. And John was great at it, even at half a mile away. Below John Linebaugh and GNR, comparing heavy bullets with medium weight bullets. Or maybe fat girls and medium weight girls. John trying to figure out how to work the phone.

But I wanted something different. I wanted a 325 grain bullet, 350 grain bullet or a 435 grain bullet. I wanted the 2 lighter weight bullets as a jacketed soft point but they were also available from Montana Bullet Works as a hard cast LBT style bullet if you liked and the 435 being a hard cast LBT bullet. The 325 was perfect at 1100 fps, the next up was a 350 also at 1100 fps, and the 425 was an LBT bullet at 1280 fps. These velocities were perfect for big game and even dangerous game. A gentleman named Carrington took a tuskless elephant with the 510 GNR and 350 grain hard cast LBT style on a cull hunt. The elephant dropped at the shot but the PH wanted him to make sure and put one of the 435 grain LBT bullets in the back of the elephant's head. Game over.

I have taken 2 Cape Buffalo with bullets of this weight, one shot each

and an African lion with a 350 grain jacketed soft point.



They work.