Originally Posted by shrapnel
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Take your light calibers and go to Africa and see how many PH's will allow those guns on dangerous game and at 1000 yards. If there wasn't an advantage to larger calibers they would hunt elephants with a 17 Remington...


I have a 1931 Remington version of the Browning take-down SA-22 that has been passed down from my Granddad. Grandma used to use it to head shoot the chickens.

.22 shorts only. Bet Granddad never knew he was ready for Africa.

Not that he would have cared. Shot his first deer when he was 84 and decided they were "too much work" after shooting his second at 87.


Coyote Hunter - NRA Patriot Life, NRA Whittington Center Life, GOA, DAD - and I VOTE!

No, I'm not a Ruger bigot - just an unabashed fan of their revolvers, M77's and #1's.

A good .30-06 is a 99% solution.