I ve been holding back to see which way this thread progressed expecting some followup from HL52.

I'll toss in another 2c. Back in the 1970's I used to read like clockwork magazine articles lamenting the loss of the great 416Rigby. The magic killing power. Yadda Yadda. Then predictably, the wild cat dejour that would fill that void. Fast forward, today, we have ammo for both great classics the 416 Rigby and 404 Jeff. That plus modern offerings in .416 by Ruger, Remington, Weatherby, Dakota and god knows who else. New factory rifles, various size and weights, for all. I never heard of a 404 (.423) Dakota. It figures! Just what we needed

From famine to gluttonous feast. All those old wildcats, while having earned a bit of nostalgia in their own right, are today a solution to a problem that no longer exists. If anything we are overloaded with too many 40's that dilute a very small market.

If you want one or the other, there is no point is asking, just go do it. Which is better is purely and individual choice, or who speaks most eloquent on a forum. Angels on the head of a pin.