What I was thinking also! Gonna try longer drop tube to hopefully seat bullets a little deeper. Here is the 350 speer load I been using. Very accurate load hopefully I can get the barnes to similar spot.
Good luck on your interview man.
I appreciate it, I'll need all the luck i can get lol
I think in my rem mag I'm going to start at 80gr and work up to 84gr, before i mess with seating depth
May try that also. I made up an 8" drop tube to help the powder settle for more seating depth. But that is a long bullet and all loads are quite compreseed in my case. Seems this bullet would work better in the larger case 416's. Or if I had a little more magazine length would be nice. At 3.360" is about my safe max length for reliable feeding, and thats with it battering the tips flat on the 2nd and third rounds in the mag box.
Unfortunately I dont even have elk lol. Just little old whitetail deer, maybe a stray pig ever once in awhile haha. I have played with the 400 DGX some and really wanna try some 410 woodleigh. I just have not been able to find any lately. Ive just become very fond of the African calibers, so now I have the 416 and two 9.3x62's
For whitetail deer, I think you will find that the heavier .416s are kind of a waste. They punch through deer from any angle like they are punching through a sheet of paper. They will definitely expand if the deer are close (especially the Woodleigh, it has become one of my favorite bullets), but the 410 is is probably limited to 2,100-2,200fps in a .416 Taylor (depending on your barrel length) without running the ragged edge of pressure and getting short brass life. By my calculations, they are below the threshold for reliable expansion at 100 yards (1,900fps is probably the lowest for reliable expansion in my experience) and you will likely not get full expansion at 50 yards because there isn't much resistance in a deer. If you don't plan on shooting farther than 100 yards, it will definitely kill, but if your looking for a bullet to perform on animals that size, The 340 grain Woodleigh Weldcore PP is fantastic. They open up reliably, hold together and can be pushed out of your Taylor at 2,600 fps with less recoil! Still massive overkill for deer, but if you want to you use your Taylor on deer, that's the Woodleigh bullet I would recommend.Unfortunately I dont even have elk lol. Just little old whitetail deer, maybe a stray pig ever once in awhile haha. I have played with the 400 DGX some and really wanna try some 410 woodleigh. I just have not been able to find any lately. Ive just become very fond of the African calibers, so now I have the 416 and two 9.3x62's
Thanks! I looked at those, but have not tried them yet. I have shot 150 rounds of the 350 grain speer mag tips. In my taylor improved I reached 2700 fps with no pressure, but settled on 2610 fps for accuracy. I originally chose this bullet because I figured it was probably the softest 416 bullet available, and would work on deer pretty decent. Cant find them now, so i may look at finding the 340 PP as a replacement.
I had pretty similar results with a 22 inch Douglas barrel using 350 grain Barnes bullet, earlier model TSX? 2550 fps. One shot, one brown bear at 215 yards, behind right shoulder out left shoulder, rolled down hill, squared 9 ft 9 inches. Commercial Mauser action, sat in Cosmoline for 30 years, waiting to be something, three round magazine was two more than I needed.
