20rds – 458 Win Mag Hornady Dangerous Game Series 500gr. DGX Bonded Ammo

Hornady Ammunition 500 Grain DGX Ammo Details

This 458 Winchester Magnum ammunition is perfect for squirrel hunting – if the squirrels in your area are roughly the same size as African elephants. Hornady’s Dangerous Game Series ammunition is equally suitable for actual elephant, as well as any other large game which you’d rather only have to shoot once.

This cartridge is loaded with the Dangerous Game eXpanding (DGX) Bonded projectile. Its tough lead core is welded to its copper-clad steel jacket, so it possesses the fortitude requisite to deeply penetrate a very tough beast’s hide, muscle and bone. The DGX Bonded retains the vast majority of its weight as it lets loose expansion that broadens its overall diameter to somewhere between 0.687 and 0.916”.

The 500 grain DGX Bonded attains a G1 ballistic coefficient of 0.295 once it exits a 24” barrel’s muzzle at a rate of 2,140 fps. If you zero in at 100 yards, you can expect the trajectory to peak at 1.1”; bullet drop at 200 yards would be approximately -9.9”. The cartridge is powerful, needless to say, and would reach 100 yards with just shy of 4,000 ft lbs of kinetic energy.

This ammunition features its Nebraskan creator’s Superformance propellant technology, which ensures optimum chamber pressure in antique double rifles. Its massive virgin brass cases are reloadable.