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Re: .416 Rigby vs .458 Lott in Heym Express Rfile
      03/08/16 11:56 PM

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You guys that shoot big bores in competition, where you might burn through a prodigious amount of ammo in an afternoon certainly have my respect!!!!! Recoil is a tough thing to come to terms with and I'm not confident I'd fare well with repeated and incessant pounding!!!




Trust me, the guys that shoot all the time are making sure that their loads make the BGRc regulations, not maximum handloads. ie. 416 Remington only needs 3900 ftlb with a 400gr to make regulation, not 5300ftlb which is maximum.




Off topic (sorry) but sad to see, as it seems to go against the origial concepts of the competition ie "big game" competition and using mostly vintage rifles in a target competition. The lower energy rates were probably designed to allow a normal load of a particular cartridge in a class to be included at the lower level, not downloading larger cartridges to match a lesser cartridge.

I prefer my rifles to have sights shooting the "real" cartridges, not downloaded less powerful "squib" loads. I wonder if the "competition" rifles are permanently sighted in for the "squib" loads? Or they manage to get normal power loads to match closely enough the 'squib' loads? Or they resight the open sights if they ever hunt with normal loads? Or they hunt with the 'squib' loads? Lots of questions.

PS I did notice when taking photos, how some rifles did not recoil much at all. THe thumps on my shoulder felt much more severe than the little jumps of some rifles. Of course it may be the perspective of being behind the butt or not!

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