Recent content by hoytcanon

I experimented with the 300 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip bullet in a reduced .458 load... I HIGHLY recommend you NOT use that one for hunting... I shot a late season WT doe with it and the bullet completely came apart and made a mess, with shrapnel going everywhere, excessive meat loss.

I like the Barnes 400 grain Original SSP for bears and moose out my .458 Carbine with 65.0 grains of H4895... pleasant load and floors game.

I would be changing flight plans and adding days in that situation.

If you get there and the 80 rounds of ammo that you custom loaded and tested and brought with you disappear, you borrow/rent a rifle from the outfitter... shit happens, you don't have to dumb down your approach to cover a "what if" scenario. This isn't a life or death scenario... most gun...

Personally, for PG, including Eland, I would go with the 7mm PRC over the .300. The 168 LRX is going to drop anything you care to shoot with no noticeable difference over the .30 cal group... alot of guys are killing their Eland with the piddly 6.5 Man Bun for Pete's sake... the 7 PRC is good...

Eat a pot roast and ball up...

He just told you...

Besides Africa, I have used various .458's on NA game, deer, moose and bears. I shot this 450 pound boar this spring with a .458 Carbine using Barnes Original 400 SSP's. No reason not to use it on moose.

Good luck archery brother... Choose your shot carefully and execute confidently.

"Call an Uber"? You get what you get.

If you can't figure that out, you better not travel.

I would not have shot any of those animals under those conditions and would have left the operation by day two...

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Some very dumb, uninformed opinions in this thread, from people with no experience with archery kills.