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What grain weight bullet would you for Moose hunting. in a .416 Taylor? my gun shoots the Hornady 400 gr, expanding bullet, and the Speer 350 gr, mag tip both very well! Live every day like it was your last, because someday it will be!!! | ||
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400 gr seems to be made for the 416! John | |||
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If it were me, I'd shoot the 400 grain bullets. That's the oonly thing I've ever shot in my .416 hoffman, though I am curious about some of the 350-370 grain offerings. I would not go with a 300 grain for a moose, as the secional density isn't nearly as good as the 400, which ought to pack one hell of a wallop on bullwinkle. | |||
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My man, Anything point four-one-six in diameter will give any moose a major pain. Its true the heavier bullets may well penetrate better, but opineing from what I've observed, most bullets weighing 180g or more seem to tip them over with regularity. | |||
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My .416 Rem and Rigby both like the 370 grain North Fork to the exclusion of all others. The Cape Bufffalo in the Selous didn't share that fondness. Good shooting. phurley | |||
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DLH I have not used the 416 Taylor but I have used the 416 Rem on moose and black bear. I started using the 300 gr Branes X bullet. When Speer started making that 350 gr bullet I thought I would try it. Because they are very reasonably priced I thought they would be good for practice if nothing else. Well they work very well on game as well. Either bullet is ample for any North American game. The main reason I had started with the 300 gr X was after reading an article by Andy Runyan ? who guided for big bears in Alaska. He and a couple other guides had been using 416's as back up rifles on big bears and he suggested the X bullet was devastating. Like Scott King has suggested just about any bullet from this class of rifle is really more than required in NA. | |||
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The 350 mag tip well work great I shoot them out of my taylor had have had no trouble with them. A 490 lb black bear thought they worked well. | |||
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Either one, ain't gonna make a difference. The 350 still has plenty of SD for penetration at .289. Mike Legistine actu? Quid scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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