how many hunt with bigbores

I've shot plenty of deer with assorted .45-70's, and have used various .375H&H's on everything from crows to buffalo. As stated, not really a big bore, but the H&H has come to be my favourite chambering for just about all scoped rifle hunting. I've recently gotten a model 70 in .458Win and hope to shoot the daylights out of it for a couple of years and then use it for an elephant. So far it's accounted for a crow, two coyotes and a feral cat. Very effective stopping rifle!:D
 
Hunting little deer with your big gun will only make you a better shot if you do get to go to Africa. In Africa you shoot a Dik Dik for the pot with your 458 and nobody seems to think you were overgunned and say things like overkill.
 
Big Bores

The last five head of game I've taken have fallen to BPCRs:

two moose with a 45-70 (Browning '86)
two 400 lb+ black bears with a 50-70 (Shiloh Military Rifle)
one 4 pt Mule Deer with a 50-70 (Ditto)

I've also taken four Ruffed Grouse with the 50-70. Decapitates them real good!
 
uhmmm let's see.......444 marlin, 45-70, 458 win mag, 375 win , 38-55win, 375 ouch and ouch, 50-110, 35 rem and my favorite 348win and my dog gun .44mag
 
I've got a Ruger MK II Safari in .416 Rigby. Chopped 7/8" off the 24" barrel to do a different style of crown recession. So far only 2 Yukon moose bulls with this rifle.

Also, I have an A-Square Hannibal in .500 A-Square that I have not taken a shot out of yet, slowly stocking up on the $20/per round shells.

I have a Leupold VX-7 LR with quick release rings to swap between these 2 rifles. Someday they will be unleashed on the big 5.
 
I'm a medium bore fellow, not big bore. So far the .375 H&H has taken 9 head of game in Canada and Africa from dogs to Cape Buffalo and many things in between (works great on Whitetail, too). I'm building a double rifle and can't decide whether to go big bore or not. I own barrels and reamers for both a .450-400 3" Nitro, and a .475, and I keep waffling between the big-medium and the big bore.
 
Ha! Noted, but I hunt more moose at 95 yards than elephants at 15, .450-400 3" on a .416 bore is looking very attractive again... But then I run into double-covered ground gun wise competing with the .375 for my hunting time. You could be right, go big, and make it a specialist tool. Still my current line of thinking, but it's a tough choice. It'll either be throwing 400grs at 2,150fps or 500 grains at the same, just a matter of hole size.
 
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