njc110381
AH enthusiast
Hi guys. I'm after some feedback please regarding shooting smaller animals with large calibre rifles. I want to take my .416 Rigby out for deer to get more field experience with the gun. The deer I generally shoot are around 15-30kg.
How will it perform? I'm currently using 350gr Barnes TSX but would be happy to pick up something else if needed? Experience so far has shown that pretty much anything slow will knock them over without wrecking them, and the Rigby isn't a fast round. An educated guess tells me it'll be a fairly clean kill without excessive damage and the majority of the energy will end up in the ground behind the deer?
No doubt there will be a few of you who have shot small plains game with this sort of round. I'd be grateful to hear your thoughts. I found a video on Youtube of a German chap hunting roe deer with his .416 but there wasn't really any talk of carcass damage or lardering, only the hunt itself.
How will it perform? I'm currently using 350gr Barnes TSX but would be happy to pick up something else if needed? Experience so far has shown that pretty much anything slow will knock them over without wrecking them, and the Rigby isn't a fast round. An educated guess tells me it'll be a fairly clean kill without excessive damage and the majority of the energy will end up in the ground behind the deer?
No doubt there will be a few of you who have shot small plains game with this sort of round. I'd be grateful to hear your thoughts. I found a video on Youtube of a German chap hunting roe deer with his .416 but there wasn't really any talk of carcass damage or lardering, only the hunt itself.