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Grizzly
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Re: 416 comparisons
15/12/05 11:51 AM

No fight wanted..

First of all, I know how accurate the 416 Rigby is. It is accurate out to 300 yeards plus. The issue is penetration. I have no idea why someone would hunt elk with a 416 - it destroys way to much meat. A 375 H&H is the upper limit for elk.

I suppose it is possible to get a 300 yard shot on an elk, but that is not common. You may well indeed hit it with a 416, but it has lost a ton of energy by then.

I was talking about the kind of game a 416 is best suited. Dangerous game. You sure as hell don't launch a 300 yard shot on dangerouos game, period.

As for the Weatherby, yes it does tend to bounch around at short ranges. That is because the bullet takes longer than thadistance to stabilize. That is know as keyholing. In my personal opinion, it is unsortsmanlike to shot any animal with a round that keyholes.

In that scenario, the round never stabilizes, hits the target, and immediately goes off track and deforms. It destroys rather than penetrate. If you want to torture animals you shoot, go for it. I for one will never do that.

But you can kill a lot of game with very little meat. If that's your cup of tea, all well and good.

Be careful about what you "hear". 80% + on the internet is total BS. And 15 out of the other 20 is half BS, which means it is unreliable.

If you purchased even one bllistics chart on any given round, you would wake up to the realities of big game hunting.

Go to Arfica with a Weatherby and keyhole a lion at 30 yards. I dare ya.

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416 comparisons	375Brno	11/12/05 09:24 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	Taylor416	24/12/05 12:14 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	416rigby	28/12/05 06:25 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	DONOTDELETE	29/12/05 01:15 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	jro45	18/12/05 03:58 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	416rigby	20/12/05 12:09 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	DONOTDELETE	20/12/05 02:31 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	shakari	20/12/05 03:53 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	DONOTDELETE	21/12/05 12:35 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	shakari	21/12/05 03:57 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	DONOTDELETE	21/12/05 04:02 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	shakari	21/12/05 04:20 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	Grizzly	21/12/05 01:46 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	Marrakai	21/12/05 02:47 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	Grizzly	21/12/05 03:13 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	ALAN_MCKENZIE	21/12/05 03:53 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	375Brno	21/12/05 08:58 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	ALAN_MCKENZIE	21/12/05 02:39 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	Bloodnativ	12/12/05 02:36 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	416rigby	13/12/05 09:02 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	Grizzly	15/12/05 11:51 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	DONOTDELETE	16/12/05 01:04 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	Grizzly	16/12/05 07:06 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	k80	16/12/05 11:44 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	Marrakai	15/12/05 01:45 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	416rigby	15/12/05 06:07 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	AdamTayler	15/12/05 04:47 PM
Re: 416 comparisons	DONOTDELETE	12/12/05 09:24 AM
Re: 416 comparisons	Grizzly	12/12/05 10:26 AM
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