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.375 chamberings for ELR hunting and shooting
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<blockquote data-quote="judgebill" data-source="post: 2339040" data-attributes="member: 101611"><p><strong>Curiosity compels me to ask if you've ever been hunting anything, from prairie dogs to polar bear? Experience gained from actual hunting is worth much more than information found only in books (or emails). You mention that you will begin your hunting "in a few years". It is quite possible that new guns and ammunition will be available "in a few years" and any information found in writings may be outdated. Wait a minute, "outdated". No, animals won't get any harder to kill "in a few years" from whatever it takes today, or yesterday. Yesterday (not reallyl that long ago) people killed everything with the puny .375 H &b H mag. Okay, maybe they used a larger caliber for charging elephants and/or Cape buffalo. But lesser critters were dispatched with the .375. Roy Weatherby's popular .300 Wby Mag was used by many to kill just about everything. What about long distance? A good guide is likely to get you within much less than a mile, say around a 1/4 mile or less, and there are many well-proven calibers for that range. But you might want to try hunting a few critters before investing in your prospective epic hunting journey.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="judgebill, post: 2339040, member: 101611"] [B]Curiosity compels me to ask if you've ever been hunting anything, from prairie dogs to polar bear? Experience gained from actual hunting is worth much more than information found only in books (or emails). You mention that you will begin your hunting "in a few years". It is quite possible that new guns and ammunition will be available "in a few years" and any information found in writings may be outdated. Wait a minute, "outdated". No, animals won't get any harder to kill "in a few years" from whatever it takes today, or yesterday. Yesterday (not reallyl that long ago) people killed everything with the puny .375 H &b H mag. Okay, maybe they used a larger caliber for charging elephants and/or Cape buffalo. But lesser critters were dispatched with the .375. Roy Weatherby's popular .300 Wby Mag was used by many to kill just about everything. What about long distance? A good guide is likely to get you within much less than a mile, say around a 1/4 mile or less, and there are many well-proven calibers for that range. But you might want to try hunting a few critters before investing in your prospective epic hunting journey.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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