416: 416 Caliber Cartridges With Terry Wieland

About this episode

John McAdams interviews gunwriter Terry Wieland about various .416 caliber cartridges and their impact on safari hunting.

Gunwriter Terry Wieland joins me on the show as we discuss his thoughts on the various .416 caliber cartridges: the 416 Rigby, the 416 Remington Magnum the 416 Weatherby Magnum, the 416 Ruger, and even the 416 Hoffman and the 416 Taylor. We talk about the pros and cons of those different rounds, which 416 he prefers over the others out of that bunch, how those 416s stack up against the various 375s and 458s for use on buffalo, why the 404 Jeffery was vastly more popular than the 416 Rigby for a long time, and why that eventually changed. We even discuss the development of the Ruger Safari Magnum rifle, the Trophy Bonded Bear Claw and several other things that massively changed the safari hunting industry during the 1980s and 1990s. Sponsor: Go to BigGameHuntingPodcast.com/ebook and sign up for my free e-book on the best hunting calibers at to receive the entertaining and informative emails I send out about hunting, firearms, and ballistics every weekday. Join the Big Game Hunting Podcast tribe for the potential opportunity to have a future podcast guest answer one of your questions on the air along with access to all my bonus material at www.patreon.com/biggamehunter Please hit…

People in this episode

Host: John McAdams

Guest: Terry Wieland

Topics covered

• hunting
• firearms
• caliber cartridges
• safari hunting
• ballistics

Keywords

• 416 caliber
• hunting cartridges
• safari hunting
• firearms
• ballistics

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Big Game Hunting Podcast

Products: 416 Rigby, 416 Remington Magnum, 416 Weatherby Magnum, 416 Ruger, 416 Hoffman, 416 Taylor, 404 Jeffery, Ruger Safari Magnum rifle, Trophy Bonded Bear Claw

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