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So I have an opportunity to buy a "98" Commercial Mauser chambered for 416 Rem. Mag.
I do not need it for any reason or purpose but to simply have and shoot. And to buy new reloading dies :). Certainly I can load it down for deer. And it would work very well on elk and moose. I will never leave North America for any hunting purposes.
Any experience here regarding this cartridge?
Bob,
Rick shall respond, I assume - he used it last year to successfully hunt a Cape buffalo in Zimbabwe. For all purposes on heavy muscled, thick skinned animals like elephant and Cape buffalo it is the equivalent of the .416 Rigby I use in Mozambique. The Rigby shoots a 400gr Peregrine bullet at 2,450 ft/sec comfortably below the 47,000 psi CIP maximum pressure for this case.
The Remington needs 65,000 psi to achieve the same muzzle velocities as the Rigby with similar bullet weights from the smaller, necked out 8mm Remington Magnum case. Because recoil is a direct function of muzzle pressure the smaller case than that of the Rigby makes for considerable higher recoil.
Regarding meat hunting: I use the Peregrine 400 gr .416 bullet on everything from the diminutive duiker, to bushbuck, warthog, bushpig, waterbuck, kudu etc. Because there is no bullet slowdown through these animals there is absolutely zero meat damage - just neat calibre size entrance and exit holes in the skin and 4x calibre size holes through the wetted areas. NO black, curdled blood mess anywhere.