What, you may ask, is my association with the .416 Remington Magnum, as not too many hunters and shooters have a need for what is termed a “large medium-bore” because their applications are mostly restricted to non-dangerous game – something that all-rounders like the .375 Holland & Holland Magnum have bragging rights on.
ASK THE PROFESSIONALS
Well, being an ecologist, aspiring to big-game hunting in my own right and wishing to possibly enter the field of professional hunting, I was on the scout for a “dangerous-game” rifle way back in the late 1980s. A double was out of the question due to cost and availability, so a bolt gun it had to be. Calibre – good question, and to answer this, I set about interrogating those in my work circles who had killed substantial numbers of big and dangerous animals in their careers as opposed to the occasional big-game hunter. These people in the conservation fraternity and professional hunters were also people who had had many close shaves and had often done so under less than
