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I've been doing a lot of looking around at the fine doubles. I know I shouldn't, because I can't even afford the rag to mop up the drool these pieces seem to drive from mouth. Anyhow, I was looking at the cartridge lineup of the Blaser S2, and I noticed one cartridge I knew absolutely nothing about: the .500/.416 NE. I've done a lot of historical research on the old Nitro Express cartridges, but this one never came up. I finally found by looking at an ad for a kreighoff double that this round was just recently invented, and learned some of the characteristics that led to its invention: the ready availability of .500 NE cases and .416 caliber bullets. This makes sense as the .411 caliber bullets required by the .450/.400 NE have been pretty rare in the past. But I can't find any editorials on this cartridge, no articles, no trophies taken with it, I can't find anything on it other than a couple of rifles chambered in it. What do you guys know of it?