444 Marlin or 460 S&W, Which and Why?

[bootsmcguire]

Well it is built, and I just built the brake for it today. Haven't made any ammo yet other than a couple of dummies for feed testing. If I can get time this weekend I am planning to make up some ammo and hopefully get out to shoot it this week or next weekend. Fingers crossed. Had a bit of a set back with my bolt head (completely my fault). I did some tweaking that wasn't really needed and am going to have to replace it, so I have a WTB thread going looking for a new one, but I will probably rob the one out of my 6WSM or 7 Mag to get me shooting.

I'll see if I can't get some pics and start another thread in the proper board showing the build so far.

[sav250]

Most of the time the .444 Marlin easily (in Winchester souped up 94 to Timberline .444 too with the .444 Marlin from New Haven and not Remington) was the accurate big bore. I'd read the .444s v the .45-70s over the last decade and more years fighting each other. I always had the .444 on hand shooting better than any .45-70 Marlin (the 1895 ported or unported or whatnot) and sort of laughed as if I was superior in understanding--at the .45-70 Clan dissing the .444.

Okay so I did pick up a Miroku Winchester 1886 Short Rifle (24" Barrel really so the short rifle name escapes me) and took it to the range back in 2008 using the irons and shot under one inch regularly from a table without sandbags or support (just my elbows of a table and me sitting) at 50 yards.

I looked at my gun as it ejected straight up and over my head while I was using the iron sights over this rickety table and the action itself felt so smart and tight and vault like and then I knew why in the movie The Edge with Anthony Hopkins he had an 1886 Winchester in that cabin in Alaska with two shots out of a magazine loaded to 8 shots (my Miro 1886 holds EIGHT in the tube!) to deal with the climax of The Edge with Elle.

My wife's sister asked me the other day out of all my guns which one is the funnest and I pulled out the Miro Win 1886 Short Rifle and explained....\\

Ellle I mentioned but her name is Elle Mcpherson or something. She's a swimsuit model from the past and in this movie she is the wife of Anthony Hopkins.
Anthony shows his finesse working the action of an 1886 Winchester in .45-70 Gov. True to the date and film and stuff. One film that was real about a gun which happened to be the 1886 Short Rifle in .45-70 Government. Just like my Miroku!