John
Yes, it seems Phillip does not know the facts about a 404 Jeffery, maybe he should take it out of the safe and hunt with it...
"It has too much recoil" The 404 Jeffery has the lowest chamber pressure of all the magnum rifles...you can shoot it the whole day...if you hunt plains game you can go lighter grain bullets..350 gn will work excellently...

"Too much damage to medium/small game" with a 400 gn bullet at 2050 f/s ...will not cause any accessible expansion ...medium/small game does not need to be hunted with heavy bullets if you think it will cause too much meat damage...I doubt it.....

Just my two cents... the 404 Jeffery is a caliber you can use to hunt from small game to dangerous game..just adjust your re-loading accordingly....

Regards

Gert