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.460 S&W MAGNUM

(0.452") Note: When loading this cartridge and you desire maximum loads, you must use a bullet with a thick jacket, so check your manual’s recommendations carefully.

This cartridge followed in the footsteps of a truly big bore of S&W revolvers, the .500 S&W Magnum (see below). The .460, introduced in 2005, was dubbed the .460XVR. From its name designation, you may think that it uses a bullet different in diameter from that of the .45 Colt or .454 Casull but in reality it does not; therefore, the .45 Colt and .454 Casull cartridges can be fired in any revolver chambered for the .460. Like the .454, this is an extremely high pressure cartridge that must be loaded with bullets appropriately designed. When it comes to recoil, due to the weight and design of the S&W revolver, its bark is worse than its bite. Again, if you can handle a .44 Magnum, you can handle this one. The factory loads I use include 200- (Cor-Bon), 260- and 275-grain bullets.

.45-70 GOVERNMENT

(0.458") As an official military cartridge back in the 1880s, the .45-70-500 was a 45-caliber boomer loaded with 70 grains of black powder, which pushed a 500-grain bullet. It was the 1980s when Ruger, Marlin, SSK Industries (who made T/C Contender barrels so chambered) and Thompson/Center Arms in 1990 that brought this fine big bore back from the road to extinction. For hunting and taking shots from short to moderate ranges, say, 150 yards, I prefer the 300-, 325- or 350-grain bullets. Recoil in T/C handguns – especially if they have muzzle brakes from SSK, T/C or Mag-Na-Port – is moderate and again in the .44 Magnum class. In fact, I prefer firing the .444 Marlin, .45-70 and .450 Marlin in handguns to firing them in carbines since, to me, they’re actually easier to control in a handgun. In carbines, the shoulder takes the hit; in handguns, the recoil raises the firearm and if you hold on and don’t let the blast cause flinching, the energy generated doesn’t knock you around.