"Let me give you something to think about, if you had to use full power loads, how well do you think you would have done, say with your 470NE, against those bolt rifles? It is my opinion, the only way to become profecient with a dangerous game rifle is to practice with the loads you are going to use while hunting DANGEROUS GAME, but that's just me!"

I would have done terrible!

Honestly, I'm working my way up to the full-house loads. I belive one can "learn to tolerate" recoil by starting with somthing like a .375 and progressivly stepping it up. I'm to the point now where I don't flinch with an %80 load in the .470 If I find that I can never shot a full-house load well, I'll take my .375 hunting loads (which uses new brass) and just play around with my .470

BTW, how do you do "in reply to"