What would happen if you shot a deer with .416 Rigby? I know it's overkill but it wouldn't fuck it up the meat in an capacity, would it?
.416 Rigby
What would happen if you shot a deer with .416 Rigby? I know it's overkill but it wouldn't fuck it up the meat in an capacity, would it?
perhaps
Wasn't a yes or no question.
maybe
It wont make the deer extra dead
The tree behind it maybe
Solves the problem of “my deer hide behind trees” pretty nicely
You should probably wreck the ribs and the front legs, and if you shoot high there is a good chance you would also ruin the front of the backstraps.
I have no idea why you would shoot a deer with a .416 anything. It's extremely overkill, and the ammo is super expensive.
*would probably
Thanks for the helpful answer.
>Watching too much Kentucky Ballistics bru
You know it. This is a mean ass round that just doesn't stop.
Made me want one, but I wanted to check if there was ANY practical purpose whatsoever.
Just shoot it in the head, problem solved
Watching too much Kentucky Ballistics bru
Anyway, these big game heavy rounds and fiddy bmg too just zip through durrs and peoples. Leaves a blank hole without too much disturbance. Not thick and dense enough for the round to start to impart much energy
Bigger bullet at lower velocity would bloodshot less meat than a .270. But the heavy, expensive rifle and ammo would be impractical af.
A less expensive big-bore like 9.3x62 would serve for deer to moose sized game; the Germans used this as an all-purpose hunting rifle in their pre-WW1 African colonies.
>lower velocity
too many hunters really on mpbr and can't into ranging and holdovers
Venison isn't too "gamey" you just need to season and cook it right
Venison tastes like shit because venison is shit.
>Just season it right
You mean completely cover the taste of the meat? Ok sure.
Fun fact, if you breathe deeply through your nose while grinding up a buck that was in rut you can make your farts smell like that for a couple days.
my dad always taught me to soak it in beer for a day or two. Doesn’t get rid of that wonderful venison flavor but really balances it out
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it'd work fine. it's still going to depend largely on shot placement.
>it wouldn't fuck it up the meat in an capacity
Probably not. I haven't shot one with .416 rigby but I have shot whitetail with 300gr .375 H&H RNSP. It hits them like a bigger 30-30, it punches a golfball-sized hole from one end to the other, but doesn't ruin meat very far beyond the hole. It's actually a really nice deer cartridge, if you can handle the recoil (~ 30% more than a 30-06). It's definitely overkill, but the way it drops them with authority without ruining meat is a really nice combination. I would expect the Rigby to punch a slightly bigger hole through a deer but would probably bloodshot even less meat since it has a somewhat lower MV than the heavy .375 H&H. The .375 is a more flexible cartridge though, you can load the 230gr spitzers and go antelope hunting, or 300gr tungsten core and go cape buffalo hunting.
Less damage to the meat than a 12g slug. You aren't a hunter.
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>not a single person has brought up bullet type
Why is this?
I'm curious why you think a deer will notice whether the soda can sized hole through his lungs was caused by a 2400 fps monolithic solid designed for cape buffalo or a 2400 fps soft point designed for brown bear.
the diameter of the hole depends entirely on bullet construction. A classic big-game hunting "solid" will icepick. A highly expanding bullet will blow a hole the size of a football through the deer. Controlled expansion bullets will be somewhere in between.
The claim is that no .416 will expand in an animal as small as a deer, and that this turns out to be a good thing.
the bullet in op definitely wouldn’t. If you stepped down to a 280 or 300 grain flat nose protected hollow point at like 2800 fps you could probably knock the snot out of a deer
>highly expanding bullet
Ah, I see where your confusion arises.
There are no highly expanding bullets for the 416 Rigby. The expanding bullets for that rifle are quite tough and designed to expand only moderately and provide very deep penetration with little deflection through the animal.
you might have some blood shot meat around the entry hole for a few inches, because of the velocity. in all likelihood on a less than 300 pound deer it might not kill as spectacularly as even a medium caliber cartridge, a 400 grain bullet is pretty big for deer and might not expand very much. so you will need very good shot placement to have it down within 80 yards. It’s not going to blow the deer apart
Someone wanna take me hunting and find out? I always assumed it would just zip through a small animal like a deer, so I just keep in case of Tyke 2: Elephant Boogaloo.
I think
>zipping through
is a highly relative term. having a .416" diameter, 400gr chunk of metal passing through you at 2400 fps is probably going to be traumatic. even a DGS or something still has significant energy transfer vs flesh even though there is no expansion.
that being said, you could take an A-frame or something similar.
why the fuck do we have like 10 google images OP threads about random cartridges?
Dad once shot a baby roe deer (bambi) because it was sick with an 8x68mm S because it was the only rifle he had on him. The middle part of the deer was missing. An the dog was pissed because the liver was gone.