My wife left at 5:30 to visit her mother and that left me with a free day. I took my small bores to the range and was set up and shooting before 7AM. It was dead calm and about 50 degrees and sunny. Both me and the guns were "on" and it was a nice outting.

After about two hours a guy came in with a 416 Weatherby and a lead sled. The gun had a muzzle brake. He did a walk-by and told everyone he was going to shoot and we might want to double check our hearing gear. I walked down to his station and watched as he touched it off. Holy Moly - He was shooting tungsten solids at $146 a box! After 6 shots he had about a 4" group at 100 yards. The shots were strung vertically more than horizontally. He was checking the scope because he was going on a brown bear hunt in Alaska. We were talking and he told me he was considering reloading for it. I think I would have considered that with the purchase of my first box of ammo.

Holy Moly, In Africa we shoot tin cans with a 416. :eek::eek: You should have seen me having the ?{:?#@???? scared out of me on my dad's farm by a leopard. That was 40+ years ago and there is still a trail of ************** as I ran like ??????. Well the double barrle that I fired ( I think both barrles at once , How do I know??) scared me more than the leopard and the baboons it was hunting. And I still had 4 miles to walk back to the lodge. I think the USA and bears are a little nicer than the African wilds

The Holy Moly was for the price of the ammo. The 416 looked like an interesting round. I don't think the 416 can dole out a lot more punishment than my Guide Gun shooting 500 grain hard cast lead bullets. The 500 grain load is a real teeth rattler.