Originally Posted by Mule Deer
Originally Posted by RiverRider
[ John, maybe it would be interesting to talk about how many articles you would have published over your lifetime if you only wrote about "cartridges that won't gitterdone."

I'd bet that about 99% of the kills made the last ten years could have easily been made with cartridges that originated well over 100 years ago.


Interesting question!

Out of curiosity I just added up the cartridges I've used on big game that were originally developed (sometimes as an almost identical round) by the 1920s. May have forgotten a couple, but there turned out to be 19:

.22 Hornet, .22-250, 6mm Remington, .250-3000 Savage, .257 Roberts, .25-06, 6.5x54 Mannlicher-Schoenauer, 6.5x55 Norwegian-Swedish, 6.5x57R Mauser, .270 Winchester, 7x57, .280 Remington (7x64 Breknneke), .30-30, .300 Savage,.35 Remington, 9.3x62 Mauser, .375 H&H, .416 Rigby, .45-70 Springfield.

In fact the last big game animal I took, on October 9th, was a pronghorn buck slain with my Sauer 6.5x57R drilling. The cartridge appeared just after the 6.5x55, in the early 1890s.



No 30/06???