I just read THE HUNTER'S RIFLE by Charles Askins. I found it to be an excellent read and I was really surprised at the amount of game Askins killed. But I wonder if he really believed 8mm was better than .30 cal or if that was just his shtick?
I met a man in Salmon, Idaho a dozen years or so ago while walking down the street and we talked. He knew Elmer Keith, hunted with Keith and was a member of the Masonic Lodge with Keith. I asked if Keith actually regularly hunted with the 375 H&H, as he espoused the 375's virtues regularly in his writings. The man said that Keith never used the 375 when he was hunting with him, preferring instead to use a 30-06 with heavy bullets. His feeling was that this was just a niche topic that Keith could write about and it kept him published.
This is probably the same situation that Atkins exploited.
