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Using grain solids, both Roosevelt and Hemingway used the. She considered the. She took her only elephant with a. He once wrote to me that the. On such a safari most hunters encounter an unfamiliar and unprecedented variety of game, from pygmy antelopes up through warthogs, reedbuck and impala, large antelopes such as kudu, sable, waterbuck and wildebeest, and on up to zebra.

Honest, there are many great choices, and few bad ones. Most of us have a favorite deer rifle that might also be used for elk, this is the range for an ideal plains game rifle.

Always and forever, a familiar and trusted rifle is the best choice. It could be a 7mm Remington Magnum, or a. Sure, you could. All of these mild cartridges have in common light recoil, which is important. The African plains game rifle must be fully adequate for the largest game you intend to hunt and accurate enough and shootable enough to allow shot placement on the smallest game out to a couple hundred yards.

Despite its current popularity, long range shooting is uncommon in Africa. In many areas the vegetation precludes it and most African PHs have seen so much poor shooting by the likes of you and me that they are terrified of it and always remember that in Africa, one drop of blood equals a license filled and fees payable.

Your hunting team will get you as close as possible. Again, you can. However, I am convinced that magnum power, range and recoil are not needed. I am also convinced that, despite current popularity, the minimalist approach of the 6.

Yes, as with magnums, you can, but should you? This brings us to a small group of standard, non-magnum and fairly powerful cartridges that include. A big eland bull can weigh a ton, thus more than twice the size of anything else. If eland is on the menu, more is needed, but my little group of four standard cartridges will handle the rest.

All shoot flat enough for normal African distances, where yards is considered a very long shot and none will kick you into next week. We all have our favorites, but I respectfully submit that the grand old. In bullet weight, frontal area and effect on game the all-American. Thanks to the tremendous popularity of the. They are close but case capacity wins.

From her first hunt onward, Donna has had no trouble with. Remember that the. Standard today and faster than the loads Roosevelt or Hemingway might have used, is a grain bullet at 2, feet per second. This is not slow and, yielding nearly 3, foot-pounds of energy, is powerful. Zeroed at yards, drop at yards is a bit less than nine inches. Keith learned that if you used a rotten heavy bullet of, say, grains, its mass might enable it to hold together when a lighter rotten slug would not. In his book, Game Loads and Practical Ballistics for the American Hunter, which was published in , Hagel wrote the following about all-around cartridges in general:.

What does all this [using one rifle for everything] prove? Maybe more than you think…. If you use the right load, are a good shot, keep cool when the time comes to shoot, and know where to place the bullet in the right spot where it will do the most good, you can get by with any good cartridge and load.

It does not mean, however, that any one of these [all-around] cartridges or any other cartridge, stands bullet, neck, and shoulder above all other cartridges, and that it will perform feats that no other cartridge will. Some hunters carry this blind faith in a certain cartridge even further out in left field…. They believe the. The point of all this is that if you intend to use the same cartridge for shooting all classes of game under all hunting conditions you should realize its limitations and not expect it to perform reliably beyond those limitations….

The 7mm Mashburn Magnum, the. Both he and Elmer Keith ignored one key component in this equation, however: the hunter himself. Most big-game hunters shoot badly. Give them a magnum, and their shooting goes from bad to atrocious.

And the ear-splitting crack that comes with a muzzle brake may help your shoulder, but it will cost you your hearing in time, even if you wear headphones in the field. Usually, if you had Joe build you a rifle, you got dazzling wood, baroque checkering, and lots of little ruffles and flourishes to show how good he was. This rifle was plain vanilla. Unfigured wood, simple checkering, and no acrobatics with the walnut or steel.

I hiked down into the draw and up the other side while Ben drove down the ridge. From that day onward, a. When I started seriously hunting elk in the steep, thickly timbered mountains of northwestern Montana, the rifle I eventually ended up with was a sporterized Springfield shooting grain Nosler Partition handloads.

In the winter of , my small collection of sporting rifles was liquidated during a divorce. Early the next autumn, however, I started another collection by purchasing a. The combination worked well on a wide variety of Montana big game over the next few years, taking not just more whitetails but pronghorn, mule deer, black bear and elk as well. After all, by the time we reach adolescence, our mentors have explained that fact of life along with others.

But explanations are not the same as experience. When forced by the whims of fate to hunt with one big game rifle, I experienced the. I have taken big game with dozens of cartridges ranging in power from the.

An entire year may go by without using the. Some other cartridges have gained my admiration. All of the. The 6. Throw in a bunch of other cartridges in the.

I also know the. Hunters all over the world are convinced that their cartridge, bullet or handload is the answer to the quickest, cleanest kills. Some even devise formulas supposedly indicating how well various cartridges slay big game. Some animals may fall sooner, especially if the bullet comes close to the spine, but the majority of big game are going to stay upright for a little while after solid chest shots and travel maybe 25 to 50 yards before falling. This stands for 2 Lungs equals Dead Pretty Quick.

I have shot non-dangerous game of this size with a pile of different cartridges, and seen just as many animals taken by companions. A study of close to 8, moose killed by Scandinavian hunters came to the same conclusion.

Hunters reported the cartridge they used, how many shots landed and how far each moose traveled until it fell. The average was around 1. I have personally shot a pound springbok with a grain. The springbok ran more than 50 yards before stopping, weaving and falling.

Sometimes they drop instantly to a solid heart-lung shot, but more often, it takes a little time. American hunters like to argue about the perfect cartridge for various animals.