What calibre is your heavy rifle?
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Heym SR20
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There is a good discussion on Accurate Reloading on this very subject - Does anyone really NEED more gun than a 375 H&H? - Topic
A year ago I got to shoot my PH's 500 Jeffrey. It was a left-handed bolt. I found it relatively easy to shoot. It was a Blaser R8 Safari. IIRC, part of what tamed the recoil is a proprietary damping system in the stock. If I thought I would use it enough, I would get one. But you won't get much change from £10k...
Nkawu
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That was quite an interesting read. Some of those fellas on AR don’t mess around.
That's a handful
No I just got titchy fingers
Nope if you look at the bottom of the picture you can see the lack of belt on the 500 and the belt on the.458
CarlW
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The one on the left looks very wrong for a .500NE. There's a significant shoulder on it. Should be pretty straight-walled.
palmer_mike
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The 500 is a 500 Jeffery?
yep. Our error
Yes Mike .500 Jeffery, .458 WM
.500 Jeffery. Have used several large calibres over the years, but have used a .500 Jeff for the last few. I really liked my .500 NE but sadly let the rifle go. The .450 Rigby is a good cartridge as well and if I ditn use a Jeffery, this is what I would use as a back up rifle. For my own hunting I use a .375 h and H
ishoot10s
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My Safari rifle was a Blaser R93 in .416 Rem Mag and .300 Win Mag. Used it in NT (Aussie) on pigs and Asian buff. The .416 was magna-ported and not uncomfortable to shoot. I think projectile choice (bone buster or expander etc) is possibly a more important consideration than calibre on DG, since most of the popular calibers are capable of delivering energy in the 5000 ft/lb range. I can speak from experience since I placed a 400 grain monolithic poorly into a buff (through and through) that dropped and then got up and took off. Spent the next 3 days tracking it...
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