Managed to whack a coyote with my 416 Remington Mag. Load was a 400 gr. Hornady RNSP @ 2410 fps. Range was 50 yards +/-, bullet impacted on left shoulder, broadside, right on the spine, and exited off shoulder. Huge ass exit wound, like softball size+. I wasn't expecting this, I would of thought that the bullet (which surely must be designed for buff, lion, etc) would of penciled through without much expansion, if any. Like, a coyote is about 8-10" wide through the shoulders, and quit lightly built. But it sure did lay the smack down on him!

Tod,
You ought to see what the Barnes X 235 gr in a .375 H&H does to a mule deer buck. He was a spike that was a little bigger than an antelope.

Tod,

I could not count the number of kangaroos I have shot with the 300 Hornady round nose in the 375 and the 500 grain in the 460 Wby and big damage is quite common.

My theory is that these very blunt bullets need only the slightest expansion on the bullet nose to go above the calibre size and have a jagged wadcutter shape. Secondly, their big momentum means they are in fact travelling at much higher velocity through the animal than say an 80 grain 243 or 100 grain 270

If you shoot a 100 small female roos with light bullets in the 270 or 300 Win and a 100 with the 375 300 round nose or 460 and 500 round nose and then take the 25 roos with the most damage, then those roos will be the ones the shot with the 375 or 460.

Mike

My best hole maker is the 416 Rem Mag loaded with 300 gr Hawk bullets in front of R15 at 2950 fps. My first rounds were into a VA clay back stop at the local range afer a heavy rain and the mud back splattered the adjacent targets so hard that they were torn off the mounting rails. I apologized, handed out my remaining targets and went home.

Tod,
In line with what Mike said your bullet was almost as wide as an 'expanded smallbore' when it first hit, and would have maintained pace right through it.

Karl.

I've blown up a few coyotes with the 350 grain Barnes X out of the 416 Rem.

You sorta end up with a head, a tail and a farking mess in between!

Not pretty.

Depends on where you hit them..I have drilled antelope cleanly with a 416 soft on many ocassions, but don't hit heavy bone....Same with a solid.

I have also ruined the pelt on a bobcat or two with a 223 mil. solid...and that was back in the 70's when a Bobcat or Lynx would fetch you $600 bucks...

I think you in essence create a hand grenade from bone fragments. If want a mess, hit heavy bone at high speed with a lightly constructed big bore bullet. A 200 grain Sierra at 3150 fps from a 375 H&H "point on" the shoulder of a 3/4 facing coyote will creat a magnum sized prairie dog effect. Found this out by accident as he turned just as I started the trigger pull. That was my first and last 375 H&H varmiting.