It impresses me now how cartridges of this caliber - pun intended - brought so much to the table from as far back as 1892.
WDM Bell and Jim Corbett sure helped put 7x57 in lights, but Im Inclined to think more game has been brought down with
the .270win than 7x57. The more widespread affordability and availability of rifles in .27Owin since 1925 being one major factor.
The substantially more affordable M70 did the same for .375H&H sales (vs) having to purchase a premium bespoke
British magnum mauser.
About Jim Corbett and his Rigby .275 bore,
- he was given it as a gift after killing the Champawat tigress in 1907, for which he used a .500cal.
Corbett then in 1909 obtained a Jeffery .450/400 SxS ,being the rifle he actually used for the vast majority of his cat kills.
A gun later owned by Elmer Keith.
More interesting than Corbett (re: to .275 bore and big cats ) but relatively unknown, are the Sikh officer father and son
WDM Bell mentions in his writings....With one .275 bore rifle, they collected
90 bounty lions.
