Similar to the 8mm Rem Mag, I have used a 325 wsm with 200 gr partition for an elk hunt, brown bear and multiple deer hunts. That round has always been good to me. I am dabbling with a 340 wby this year and will probably take it on an elk hunt in the fall. I have a control feed M70 gathering dust that I have been thinking about turning into a 416 Ruger for no good reason but just to have.
Big Bullets for Big Animals?
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I love the 340 Wby, used the 210 XBT on PG back in '98. It was fine on any antelope, including the big Namibian Gemsbok. However, I shot a big zebra mare on the point of the shoulder, angling toward me, around 125yds. It busted the big knuckle but stopped there. She ran ( dragging that leg) with the mob she was in and stopped a few yards away as they were milling in the bush. I head shot her. In retrospect, I feel I should have used a heavier, 225. But hey, it "was" flat shooting and thats what I had it made for, the longer ranges in Namibia. The zebra was an opportunity I couldn't pass. IMO, Zebra are an amazingly dense muscle, dense boned, thick skin "Jewell of Africa", I could never resist one! ha
I remember when the 8mm Rem Mag came out an a contractor at our job had one. His wife had an identical Mod 700 in 7mm Rem Mag. He said while it was brutal in recoil, it was a stone cold Texas WT and Javalina/hog killer, ha! He said he and his wife shot some Javalina around 400yds. The 7mm stayed in the pigs, the 8mm blew on through. Her the 175 and him the 185, both factory. I knew why, of course, but he was just astounded! ha I never shot one. Shot many rounds through a battlefield P/U Mod 98 with Turkish MG ammo though! 
