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Mar,

PM's don't appear to working since the switch so I sent an email.

Just finished cleaning a chamber up on an AH last night, so should be shooting it quickly.

~Arctic~

Can someone please post the demensions for the 450 BPE? Rim, head, neck, and length. Thanks

Hello, Mike:
Thera are a lot of different 450 BPE. yours looks like the 3 1/4". The dimensions are the same as the 450 NE of the same length. You can find the exact dimensions in http://www.municion.org, along with photos of the cartridges.
Antonio Molins, Madrid.

Thanks herrdoktor. Unfortunately I don't read Spanish. I also don't see any measurements such as diameter of rim, base and neck.

I also don't speak Spanish, but I found it. All dimentions are in mm.

From Cartridges of the World, 1969

Bullet diameter .458
Neck diameter .485
Shoulder diameter .530
Base diameter .577
Rim diameter .660
Case length 2.75
Cartridge length 3.25
Berdan primer .251
Knyoch primer 31A

Black powder load
310 grain cast lead
120 grain FFG
mv 1800 100yds 1510
me 2240 100yds 1570

Nitro Load
365 grain Copper Tube
52 grains Cordite
mv 2100 100yds 1809
me 3578 100yds 2655

Pete

I know this thread has been inactive for a while, but thought I'd add my two cents on http://www.municion.org. If, instead of clicking on the link, you instead Google "municion", the site pops up in the list looking like this:

MUNICION.ORG- [ Translate this page ] Coleccionismo de cartuchería, identificación, bases de datos y foros.
http://www.municion.org/ - 2k - Cached - Similar pages

Just click on [Translate this page] and Google does just that.

Or you can find the measurements of about anything ever made here.
http://members.shaw.ca/cstein0/riflelist2.htm