You are not getting it... you are too tied up in breaking down the language rather than accepting a long held, common understanding of well used terminology. Nobody is being hard-headed or unreasonable, but there is an understanding of the general parameters of what constitutes a "big bore" rifle... luckily it is not too strictly defined or we would have nothing to talk about.
Maybe ask a Hot Rodder what’s a Small block and what’s a Big block engine
another World of “ what’s you think Willis “ 
After shooting both the Rigby and the Remington 416s, I went with the 416 Taylor, as it can be built on a regular magnum bolt faced action (I built it on a LH Ruger M77), and gives similar performance to the Rigby/Rem 416s.
Karamojo Bell is looking down at you, shaking his head in utter disbelief and scorn.
OK. If these thing matter to you that’s OK with me. I only participated a bit in the topic because I don’t see why anyone would care. Being one that doesn’t care one way or another I suspect that a buddys 7mm RUM has a lot not horse power that my .500BPE yet if he used a long enough bullet it would probably fit the “big bore” moniker and yet the .500 probably doesn’t. Anyways you will never convince me one way or another simply because I don’t care but I still enjoy hearing the opinions (I know you consider your stance as fact not opinion) of others and how they arrived at it.
Many here seem to thing they need a cannon to take down a black bear LOL when in fact, anything that is sufficient for whitetail is fine for black bears IMO. However, I am of the opinion that you can never have too much gun but you can hsve too little regardless of the game.
All true but I still believe where you hit them is more important than what you hit them with. Bad hit with a .338 is no compensation for well hit with a 6.5x55. Tons of NA animals, big and dangerous, killed with 06, 270, and 30/30 in the hands of experienced hunters the past 100 years proves it can be done handily when the shooter can hit where he's aiming. A large bore doesn't improve a poor shot.
Absolutely. That is why I have hunted almost exclusively (except my first year hunting with a savage 99) and I rarely shoot over 100 yards and only once shot over 200 but it was special circumstances. I have always been of the kind that I would rather go home empty handed that lose a wounded animal. The kill is a distance second to the hint experience snd my best most memorable hunts I didnt pull the trigger and the single worst hunt was one where I shot a 38” ram.
And I’m sure they can. Plus every kill is a one shot deal and the animal never take an other steps… but again I’m sure it is how it is !!Yup, read the threads on big game with .22CF and you would swear some of those guys think they can shoot a whitetail in the brain box at 800 yards shooting through a tornado every time.
Not really... the topic is not "big bores" it is "big bore rifles." (Cartridges). Sure, there is confusion until you circulate for some time in the circles where these rifles are used and discussed regularly... for all intents and purposes, "big bore rifles" and "dangerous game rifles" are terms used interchangeably and refer to the same thing. Discussing literal "big" bores is an entirely different, if somewhat, overlapping topic. You can crunch semantics to make it mean something else, but most understand this to be the case...
