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Brybenn, if you're going to use the 458 for everything, you might try to get a good load worked up for a 350 TSX that shoots to the same point or a little high at 100 yds of your 450-500 gn thumper load.
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Here I'll even save you the time. Try somewhere between 69 and 72 grains of H4198. 71 clocks 2650 fps in my rifle, and if I were a .375 I'd be getting awful nervous about my "do everything status". I went through 24 of those offhand this morning just settling into a shoot, rip and repeat groove.
 
For my Ruger #1 I load the 350 Hornady to 2300 it kills like a freight train and recoil is reasonable, also so load the 500 fmj to max for killing boulders and engine blocks. Next is to develop a load for the bullet barn 525 hard cast somewhere around 1800 fps.
 
I like the idea of 2 rifles I know in case one gets broke. Does anyone know the average trophy fee on a hyena? Or at least some countries that allow them to be hunted?
 
Brybenn, the spotted hyena is hunted everywhere I've ever been, in fact they are a "shoot on sight" critter most everywhere, especially if hunting private property. The brown hyena is another matter and is closely regulated in some countries. I have searched all the companies I know and found both spotted and browns @ $2500 each for trophy fees.
 
c-fbmi said:
I've had several bb but can't honestly say I have ever hunted with one.......shot a couple gophers one day with 500 gn Hornady solids (SSSHHHHH don't tell the fish cops, non expanding bullets and all). Most all my dangerous game has been taken with 375 H&H "THE TRUE KING" and a couple different 416s
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Fish cops? LOL!! Suspect they will avoid you...x 2 re: 375 H & H!!
 
c-fbmi said:
Brybenn, the spotted hyena is hunted everywhere I've ever been, in fact they are a "shoot on sight" critter most everywhere, especially if hunting private property. The brown hyena is another matter and is closely regulated in some countries. I have searched all the companies I know and found both spotted and browns @ $2500 each for trophy fees.
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Thank you very much
 
They are much, much bigger than the average person thinks. Although I have never shot one or even been able to get crosshairs on one, but have briefly seen a few and bought a skull in Zim, which is huge. If I had to guess I'd say well over 200 lbs..........and stand over 3 ft to the top of the head.
 
Ardent said:
No arguing with that, don't meet many folks who shoot a 50 round .458 string.
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Too lazy to change the target.;) Actually, I was mostly just working on recoil recovery and different amounts of tension and wasn't paying much attention to the target at all. Once I noticed that the center of the target was disappearing I did start aiming for the hole.

Recoil isn't bad once you get away from the bench. I did way too much bench shooting lately getting a handful of different bullets shooting to the same poi and mapping trajectories and need to reinforce that recoil is no big deal. I shot 100 .270s out of a couple of matching M70s at the same time.
 
A bit of a tangent about hyenas, but anybody remember that National Geographic special where the male lion demolished the pack of hyenas?
 
Yep M25, saw that one.........the hyenas had buffaloed the females and put them up a downed tree, then stole their kill, when the 2 big males appeared out of the darkness and completely decimated the pack of hyenas. I don't know about you but I was rooting for the winning team in that scrap.
 
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