Savage Axis .223 or Merkel SXS .375 H&H???

Boomer said:
Think how surprised you'd be when you mistakenly shot the PD with the .375 barrel while anticipating .223 recoil
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I would slam backwards, like I was hit by the Hammer of Thor, splitting open my eyebrow, knocking over the shooting table, and spray blood all over my "special" friends B & SC...


Boomer said:
... better yet, shooting the buff with the .223 barrel loaded for PDs... while expecting .375 recoil.
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Worse case scenario... I lurch forward anticipating the heavy recoil that does not materialize, throwing myself into the path of the charging buff, realize my mistake and give him the second barrel up the nostril... thus saving my "special" friends B & SC...
 
hoytcanon said:
I would slam backwards, like I was hit by the Hammer of Thor, splitting open my eyebrow, knocking over the shooting table, and spray blood all over my "special" friends B & SC...





Worse case scenario... I lurch forward anticipating the heavy recoil that does not materialize, throwing myself into the path of the charging buff, realize my mistake and give him the second barrel up the nostril... thus saving my "special" friends B & SC...
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I want the video.
 
Get the .375 but with a bat stock, that way you can pick up a small rock and fling it towards the coyote using the bat end. Practice makes perfect.
 
As cool as it might look to walk around the African bush wearing a culling belt festooned with a couple hundred .223 cartridges in tiny little loops, it would still be a compromise. Perhaps the double-barreled combo gun is the way to go after all. Didn't Savage make a model 24 combo gun in .223 and .375 at one time? I hear they were quite popular.

But if you want a single-caliber gun, and if you refuse to acknowledge the ultimate lethality of the fearsome .223, you only have one other choice: custom handloading. Get yourself a .45-70 case, then grab four .223 slugs and roll them into a little bundle held together with a dab of silicone and load the package into the casing. Use a gas check, and try to stick with black powder only, for the sake of tradition and period-correctness. This custom ammo works well in the Baikal sxs double rifle.

Prairie dog doubles? Piffle! Child's play! You're looking for prairie double quadruples with each trigger pull...eight casualties with two shots out of a double gun. And just think of the effect on a truculent buffalo when he is struck by eight vicious little needle-like .223 slugs after two quick shots.

Yeah, that'll work. :)
 
hoytcanon said:
An AR-15!!! Holy crap... opposites do attract.

I bet you would never put a 760 in your cabinet.
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The old style 760 without the Monte Carlo in .30/06 or .308 . . . never say never, even though I don't exactly have a burning desire for one. I was disturbed beyond reason the day I out shot my 1903 Springfield with a borrowed 760 . . . both shooting the same ammo.
 
Boomer said:
I was disturbed beyond reason the day I out shot my 1903 Springfield with a borrowed 760 . . . both shooting the same ammo.
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You would be understandably upset! What is the world coming to when the "tent peg" out shoots the "tomato stake!"
 
SuperCub said:
Takes a real MAN to show up at the range with that gun, esp in Whitehorse.
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i ve seen a man in the Yukon in the bush using a plastic stock where everywhere else he is pretending using only wood so when you see that you can be impress by the man only when he is carrying the grizz alone lol ...

that story is still well used over here, a legend that man is for sure ...
 
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