458 lott....hard to find?

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I have been looking and looking and looking for a 458 lott. I can find one new but only new and I'd prefer something once loved haha. Is this caliber of rifler rare or hard to find or do I simply have bad luck finding one? Any advice?
 
There's little demand for them thus there are fewer on the market. You might find a used CZ but you're likely better off to find a used M70 in 458WM and have it recahmbered to 458 Lott. Simple job and all you have to do is some minor fittign of the feed rails and extractor and replace the mag box and follower. But Phil is right, the 458 WM will do what you're looking to do just fine.
 
It being just a lengthened 458 Win mag, it seems most people just get a reamer and a gunsmith. I do recall Ruger offered it in the no.1 single shot a short while back. Not sure if it's still on the menu.
Wasn't there a thread about this yesterday? I recall a CZ possibly being involved...
 
Ya I know she's a big ole girl, was more or less curious is all. I know the 458WM is just the shorter version but I'd really like it in the lott without having to have it rechambered is all I guess. Had an ad up forever but not luck yet.
 
If you are willing to go through the import process( IRUNGUNS is very easy) there is a whole whack of them for sale in the US. Lots of CZ550's. Anything else that was factory chambered is going to cost quite a bit more. Or you can do what I am doing, find a CZ 550 in 458WM and have the chamber reamed to 458 Lott. Pretty simple. No other modifications necessary with the 550 as the action is magnum length already. If you are dead set on a model 70 it can be done but quite a bit more work is involved.

My thread down the page a bit called "Good enough for deer ya think?" Shows pics of my CZ. You can find some really good looking ones for decent prices.
 
Had one in ruger #1 it was a awesome gun. Just too heavy for the saddle. It was brutal off the bench but a riot off hand. Was a lott of fun when guys thought they could handle recoil and that there 300WSMs where big kickers $:)
 
we had a one in our Ruger No.1 collection. We each only ever fired one shot out of it. (that was plenty)! Then it stood in the back row in the safe for years. A couple yrs ago we needed a few extra guns for the table at the show, so she went along for the ride and never came home! Try asking for one in EE, somebody else may have in the back row, too!:)
 
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I have been looking and looking and looking for a 458 lott. I can find one new but only new and I'd prefer something once loved haha. Is this caliber of rifler rare or hard to find or do I simply have bad luck finding one? Any advice?
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I always wanted a .458Lott. I stumbled onto a CZ-550, chambered in .458WM (bought it used from a gun store in Williams L. BC; other Nutters tipped me off on the rifle). I bought it sight unseen.

With the enormous CZ magazine, the .458WM didn't really feed all that great. I had read that re-chambering to the 1/4" longer Lott cartridge, would improve feeding. I had that done, and it did. I've still got the rifle.

Love it. Great rifle. Great cartridge.
 
I have recently acquired a BRNO 602 w/ a Bevin King barrel 458 Lott, installed it in a CZ550 375 stock w/ limbsaver and bedded the action. Had a brake installed. Now my 10 year old grandson and i enjoy shooting 350 grain speer flat nose @ 1200 fps and 520 grain cast @ 1100 fps, both using Trail boss. The brake shows it's worth at full factory loads of 500 gr. jacketed soft nose @ 2300 fps. (my grandson does not shoulder this load for a while yet) A VX11 1x4 for optics. Still looking for the elephants to cross the ice bridge from Russia, didn't see any today anyway.
 
65cutlass said:
I have recently acquired a BRNO 602 w/ a Bevin King barrel 458 Lott, installed it in a CZ550 375 stock w/ limbsaver and bedded the action. Had a brake installed. Now my 10 year old grandson and i enjoy shooting 350 grain speer flat nose @ 1200 fps and 520 grain cast @ 1100 fps, both using Trail boss. The brake shows it's worth at full factory loads of 500 gr. jacketed soft nose @ 2300 fps. (my grandson does not shoulder this load for a while yet) A VX11 1x4 for optics. Still looking for the elephants to cross the ice bridge from Russia, didn't see any today anyway.
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I been keeping them thinned right out with my 602 in 416 Rigby and my double 470 NE, I can honestly say that I've shot every single one I've seen in the Yukon...........;)
 
philthygeezer said:
Hard to shoot too!

I have an RSM .458 Lott, but have to talk to Ruger about a cracked stock at the tang in its first four rounds.
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They did that. Ruger has bounced around from restocking them, to recommending that they be bedded before they were shot to refusing warranty if you so much as touched the action screws. I hope they are bouncing in your favor now. Its been a few years since they were discontinued; did you find a new one squirrelled away somewhere?

I've got a .458 reamer coming, with the intention of rechambering my Winchester after my next buffalo hunt. With the speeds I'm getting there may not be any huge advantage but I'll never know unless I try.
 
philthygeezer said:
Hard to shoot too!

I have an RSM .458 Lott, but have to talk to Ruger about a cracked stock at the tang in its first four rounds.
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Really? Wow that sucks, did you ever find out if maybe it was a production flaw? There seems to be afew people out there at least with them but this is the first one I've heard with a serious problem like that. Thanks all for the info. I've definitly enjoyed the little pointers here and there.
 
A Ruger No.1 in .458 Lott just hit the EE... comes with 46 rounds... AND "4" once fired brass... hmmmmmmmmmm...


And a compression bandage...

;)
 
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