I'm just playing devil's advocate, here. I just think it's funny how times change.
In the early to middle part of the 20th century, the 7x57 was considered one of the best ELEPHANT cartridges, and in 1935 Teddy Roosevelt stopped a charging RHINO a few feet from him with the most powerful handgun in the world... the .357 magnum!
So we lose a half a millimeter in diameter and 2 millimeters of powder capacity off the venerable 7x57, and its "critters under 400" only; and the .357 is marginal for deer!
No, I wouldn't go after bb's with my Swede! Just playing devil's advocate!
Not so. Karamojo Bell used the 7mm for shooting elephants. However, the elephants were a lot easier to approach then and if a wounded one got away, he didn't care much. Nobody else used the 7mm for elephants except in a pinch and even Bell preferred his .318. He wrote that in later years the elephants had changed and he would not recommend small bores then.
the .357 Magnum was introduced long after Teddy Roosevelt was dead.
