Smallest with biggest....

I got 2 young impala with one shot useing 400 grain A-frames in a .416 Rigby. Does that count for anything? There wasn't much left to eat in camp.

Where the TSX in the .375 did minimal damage to the steinbuck pictured earlier, the .416 A-frame blew a hole through both of them that I could have stuck my arm through. Oh, the difference a bullet makes.
 
1899 said:
Yes, the .416's are great, as they do offer good long range performance. A 340gr Woodleigh at 2650fps gives you a +/- 3" point blank range of 254 yards, and only 8.5" low at 300 yards.

Perhaps they are even better than the .375 H&H as an all-arounder.:D
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Careful. Gatehouse will get you for speaking such truths! :D
 
A small spike white tail with 375 H&H 235 Grn Speer. Took about 2 1/2 inches of spine out. No "blood shot" meat and animal dropped right there. OTOH hit a grouse at about 25m with a 350 Rem Mag 200gr Corelock and all I could find was a part of one wing. They have an amazing amount of feathers though.....
 
Grouse with a .458 Win Mag (500 gr cast at 1750 fps). Just a little overkill. Takes the heads off.

My best was a raven I shot at about 20 feet with my .58 Cal Hawken. 150grs FF behind a 440 gr Lee REAL bullet. Raven completely disintegrated. Cloud of feathers.
 
I think we've all shot grouse and rabbits with all manner and caliber of CF rifles but 1899 did stipulate "big game" in his OP. To me this means not rodents or birds (cappy barra excepted). I have actually shot gophers with 500 gn factory Win 458, but it doesn't count, come to think of it I shot a couple gophers with my 450 Ackley too, 500 grnrs at 2500 fps. I did also take 2 small impala does for bait with my .416 Taylor and 400 gn Barnes originals. Don't quite know which is the greater disproportionate blue duiker with .375 or small Impala with .416. It's up to you 1899.
 
Smallest big game animals I have ever shot with a 375H&H mag loaded with 300gr Partition's were coastal blacktail bucks.

I just put together a 7.5lbs shortened to 22" barreled s/s T/C Prohunter in 375H&H been carrying it for the last few trips out yep looking forward to breaking it in on a coastal blacktail buck loaded with 250gr TTSX this time.
 
c-fbmi said:
I think we've all shot grouse and rabbits with all manner and caliber of CF rifles but 1899 did stipulate "big game" in his OP. To me this means not rodents or birds (cappy barra excepted). I have actually shot gophers with 500 gn factory Win 458, but it doesn't count, come to think of it I shot a couple gophers with my 450 Ackley too, 500 grnrs at 2500 fps. I did also take 2 small impala does for bait with my .416 Taylor and 400 gn Barnes originals. Don't quite know which is the greater disproportionate blue duiker with .375 or small Impala with .416. It's up to you 1899.
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That's the kind of thing I am talking about. Those blue duikers are beasts. Did you recover the bullet? ;)
 
1899 said:
That's the kind of thing I am talking about. Those blue duikers are beasts. Did you recover the bullet? ;)
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UH no.........oddly enough though I did recover a bullet in my yellow back duiker. It entered just inside the left shoulder along the neck almost, went across and broke the off side shoulder, must have then turned and went back through everything and found it in the body cavity, all very odd as this is still only an 80-100 lb animal. Another JFK bullet ........HHMMMM. Needless to say bang/flop and no exit is perfect as this is to be a life mount.
 
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This is the blue duiker taken with .375
 
Well, I dunno about eatin' up to the hole... but I smacked a smallish black bear with my M77 Ruger (22", tang safety) .458 Win Mag a number of year ago. 'twas a 350 Speer at a modest 2335 fps, damage was immense Hole started out just behind ribs and made exit at back of neck-head juncture. Wasn't pretty.

Used my Ruger No.1 .45-70 Improved (.458 Win Mag ballistics) on a medium bear (165 lbs). A 500gr Hor. leaving at 2185 fps impacted bear just behind left front shoulder and left body on right flank leaving a .458" exit wound... but also a 2-foot loop of un-ruptured bowel pinched in the 1/2" wound. 'Twas fun getting that back inside without puncturing it! A week later we cleaned up some coons at that same bait setup. My partner used a BLR in .308 Win, which did leave a bullet-size wound through the skull of one, and I used the same 500gr load. All I can say is that there was no hole as evidenced by various pieces of fur, hide, inards, etc. decorating the trees, brush and bolders!

Bob

www.bigbores.ca
 
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