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Sir Jerry,
They will be good for pairing with the 400-gr softs, aye !
Your 500-gr Sledgehammers in the .458 WM+ might penetrate farther,
but even the 400-grainer will be elephant-capable.
That Doc M at MIB is working hard at it, already has some "terminals" with the new bullet,
and lots of results with other bullets to compare:





Here is the gold standard for comparison:



And a couple of inches deeper here:



Incredibly the 325-gr #13 FN is just an inch or two short of the 400-grainer
at same impact velocity and, more understandably, no improvement as velocity is increased
past a certain point with the 325-grainer:







Exponential increase of resistance as velocity goes up ?
A velocity wall dependent on the greater-than-first-order test medium ?

That one inch less with the 325-grainer than with the 400-grainer's penetration is adequate for elephant:



It takes an elephant skull frontal shot plus an elephant body to catch one of those little 325-grain boogers !

6 feet of hippo was enough to stop the 450-gr CEB Safari Solid on one occasion:



So the 400-gr CEB Safari Solid ought to be able to do the work if both the 325-gr and 450-gr CEB brass FNs of same caliber can do it.