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Originally posted by Lewis50:
I used My 416 Rem with handloads of Barnes 350 TSX, Rel 15, and Remington cases on a bear hunt on Kodiak 2 years ago with good results. The bullets were chrono'd at 2600 and the recoil was noticiply less than my 400 grain loads, also a bit flatter shooting. The bear couldn't get up after the first shot and would have died but I put two more insurance shots in him, none of the bullets were recovered. He measured somewhere around 9'9", I've forgotten the details. You might want to try this load, it works well on cape buffalo as well. The distance to the bear was right at 100 yards.