You and a Man Eating Tiger - What Rifle?
- Thread starter PeakXV
- Start date
This is exactly what I was picturing when I made the post before. I'd be most likely changing my shorts and pants though if I was that guy that was bold over by the Lion.
- Location
- Greater Kawartha Area Ontario
I'd want my Auto Five with the plug out full of 00Buck see if i could get all seven out before i was kitty food!
Lookinforlunkers
Regular
- Location
- Morrisburg Ontario
That footage was amazing. I thought they were all gonna shoot each other. After the first three or four shots I started rootin for the lion. As for my choice, 470 nitro express by Purdey or krieghoff purhaps then at least if the kitty got the better of me I would die with one of these works of art in my hands.
The only thing about being run down and devoured with a Purdey or Kreighoff 470 NE in your hands is that it makes you look REALLY stupid.
Oh, you blew all that money on a rifle quite capable of the job but never bothered to learn how to shoot the damn thing!
Oh, you blew all that money on a rifle quite capable of the job but never bothered to learn how to shoot the damn thing!
Lookinforlunkers
Regular
- Location
- Morrisburg Ontario
Kombi, Do you have some sort of complex or something? You're post did make one of us look REALLY stupid.
manbearpig
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Somewhere in the Third World
a real tiger? like the scary stalking kind that you wont see until its already airborne with its jaws open going for your neck? umm...
one of these:
at least id take it with me, and not end up in tiger poo.
one of these:
at least id take it with me, and not end up in tiger poo.
No complex.
I can just see that sort of thing making it into the Darwin Awards, if you know what I mean.
If I ever went head to head with a tiger toting a 470 NE double worth that much I'd be making sure I walked away from it and the tiger didn't.
There's a saying in the supercar world that people's driving capabilities don't necessarily rise with the size of their chequebooks.
Let's just say I never want to be that sort of shooter.
And now I'm preparing myself for a comment along the lines of "Don't worry; your shooting is like your current chequebook.....second rate".
Or can you do better?
OK OK I'll bite...
You mean the new King of the 375's...
I have to agreee in almost every aspect this rifle/cartridge combo would get the job done better than most other rifle/cartridge combo's...
I would want a claw extractor bolt action in a 458 Win Mag for this scenario though...
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Big cats are the worlds most efficient killers, and the tigers are the biggest. Cats also have a highly attuned nervous system that makes them more susceptable to the shock from a high velocity bullet than other animals of similar weight. Fast bullets tend to fail in thick cover, and unfortuneatly that's where the tiger will probably be found.
I think I'd go with my .375 Ultra and plan on using a hot loaded Nosler 260 gr AB's if an open shot was possible, but for hunting in the thick stuff I'd fall back on the 380 gr. Rhino.
I think I'd go with my .375 Ultra and plan on using a hot loaded Nosler 260 gr AB's if an open shot was possible, but for hunting in the thick stuff I'd fall back on the 380 gr. Rhino.
