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you can punch me in the shoulder till the cows come home.
i don't like getting a scope in the eye.
get a scope with good eye relief and she will be easy to master.
recoil is not that hard to overcome until you need a lanyard.
i love handing people my 375 h&h and seeing the look on their face after the first shot.
i think these types of rifles are more entertaining when somebody else is shooting, but i still love to shoot them!
 
Congrats, very nice rifle, you can always load it down for smaller animals or bench work, that rifle would tempt most of us on here!
 
Gorgeous. Yes, definitely glass bed if it's not done already but make sure space is left between the tang and the wood. You don't need much, just avoid filling that little gap with epoxy. This will prevent the rather standard crack at the top of the wrist, right behind the tang. M70's aren't too too bad for this, but bad enough I'd glass bed straight away if it's not done at the factory. I don't think the .416 Rem is too bad personally, I think you'll relax a lot after the first shot and realize it's just another gun and won't kill you.
 
Thanks very much guys!!! It is a beauty..

In terms of bedding..the recoil lugs are bedded anyway. Here's a pic off their website..I haven't had mine out of stock yet..

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Just go shoot it. I have had a .375H&H for years and I got a .416 Ruger last year. I love them both.

Forget shooting off a bench (the felt recoil is insane), and forget a scope - if you want to shoot "far", get a quality peep sight installed and practice a lot out to 200 yards. More than 200 yards? Your `06 with stop anything short of a cape buffalo (which you shouldn't be shooting that far anyway) or an elephant (same thing).

Besides, the .416 is a "stopper"; treat it accordingly and it will never let you down.

Oh, and last thing - it really is true that a big bullet going slower (2400 or 2500fps) feels more like a push than a lighter fast bullet. My .375 is way more pleasant to shoot with 300 grain round nose bullets (loaded to max) than with 210 grain Barnes flying at warp speed...go figure.
 
the 416ss make a good all around rifle for ek,moose,bison and bear,load the 300gr X up to 2700fps and you have 30/06 trajectory with real stomp!mount a 1.5x-5 scope with good eye relief and your good to go
 
wagnerb said:
Just go shoot it. I have had a .375H&H for years and I got a .416 Ruger last year. I love them both.

Forget shooting off a bench (the felt recoil is insane), and forget a scope - if you want to shoot "far", get a quality peep sight installed and practice a lot out to 200 yards. More than 200 yards? Your `06 with stop anything short of a cape buffalo (which you shouldn't be shooting that far anyway) or an elephant (same thing).

Besides, the .416 is a "stopper"; treat it accordingly and it will never let you down.

Oh, and last thing - it really is true that a big bullet going slower (2400 or 2500fps) feels more like a push than a lighter fast bullet. My .375 is way more pleasant to shoot with 300 grain round nose bullets (loaded to max) than with 210 grain Barnes flying at warp speed...go figure.
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I think you are selling the .416 short. IMHO, in the Rigby/Weatherby version, it is the largest cartridge that can be considered useful as a general purpose cartridge, meaning it can be used on a variety of game and fired from all field positions by normal people. Thus the general purpose big game cartridge tag also applies to the Remington and Ruger versions. Stopping performance is a function of shot placement rather than bullet diameter, but when I think of stopping cartridges in the African game context, it is in terms of the .577 and the .600 Nitros. Mark Sullivan attempted to stop an African buffalo with a chest shot when he first got his .600, and the buff didn't feel the need to lie down until he brained it.
 
Beauty gun, sir. We DO have some big moose here on the island, so a .416 could be put to good use, haha. If you don't mind me asking, did you get it at Coastal or Complete Gunsmithing?
 
09Tacoma said:
Beauty gun, sir. We DO have some big moose here on the island, so a .416 could be put to good use, haha. If you don't mind me asking, did you get it at Coastal or Complete Gunsmithing?
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Thank you very much!! This is also my first Winchester M70 rifle..Think I'm gonna catch the M70 fever:D

Yes we most certainly do..I've seen my share, just without a tag..go figure. Looking forward to a trip up the Northern Peninsula this September If I draw my tag. Lots of big buggers up there.

I got it from Coastal..They had two in stock..one was at the Clarenville location, and the other (mine) in Mount Pearl. The one in clarenville is sold as well according to the sales guys..They only had them in stock for approximately 2 days.:D
 
SuperCub said:
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Depends on who you ask. Winchester has put a pile of rifles together with that stuff for a lot of years, and yet everyone says it's crap. It does make takeing it apart for the first time tough. A Demel cuts out the hot melt quickly, and as it heats it releases from the wood.

I generally bed all my rifles, or have them done. I can't say that I've always been able to tell a difference.
 
Got them in 416 and 458. Very nice guns. Both very accurate. Took my Grizzly last spring with the 416, 350 TSX. Worked very well. Guess a 308 is all the gun you really need but personally I think the 416 kills big stuff just fine.
 
I'm not sure if the rebedding of a rifle is always necessary is it? Unless there are some issues with inconsistent patterns. I usually take the "if it ain't broke.." approach to things like that.

GameStalker30-06 said:
Yes we most certainly do..I've seen my share, just without a tag..go figure. Looking forward to a trip up the Northern Peninsula this September If I draw my tag. Lots of big buggers up there.
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I'm from the Great Northern Peninsula actually...seen some brutes brought to the butcher when I was getting my moose processed. Area 1 is the place to go my son.

GameStalker30-06 said:
I got it from Coastal..They had two in stock..one was at the Clarenville location, and the other (mine) in Mount Pearl. The one in clarenville is sold as well according to the sales guys..They only had them in stock for approximately 2 days.:D
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Good to hear the big calibres are selling well, haha. Coastal always has a great selection of guns. I almost had an X-Bolt last time I was there, but the Maxus I had paid for the week before kinda messed that up :rolleyes: Regardless, beauty M70! Let me know if you're heading up the coast next fall.
 
09Tacoma said:
I'm not sure if the rebedding of a rifle is always necessary is it? Unless there are some issues with inconsistent patterns. I usually take the "if it ain't broke.." approach to things like that.
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Its a lot harder (read more expensive) to fix after the stock splits.

The relief areas are just as important as the bedding itself...There is more to proper bedding than a dob of gorilla snot.

I don't care who built the gun...Its cheap to have a smith check the bedding.
 
I've had enough stocks split from recoil, so I will opt for bedding and cross bolting before a new powerful rifle gets used. Chances are I want the LOP shortened up anyway, so its just one more thing. IMHO, this is something that should be addressed at the factory, but the manufacturers don't want it to impact their bottom line.
 
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