This pretty much sums it up......

Originally Posted by McCray
Harry Selby thought a 243 was just fine too. Probably more of a statement of the clients shooting ability than anything else in his case too.

Also, too often, the 375 is scoped while the bigger gun, either double or big bolt gun may be open sighted.

The reason I use a 375 is threefold. First, a 375 works wonderfully on anything I might shoot for leopard bait. Hippo, buff, any of the large plains game, on down to impala. The 375 just flat works.
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Secondly, going into the blind in the morning or leaving in the evening the 375 is quite comforting. Elephants feeding around the blind or lions in the road to the blind has happened to me more than once. We even got chased by a rhino cow and her ugly little calf one night and one morning after leaving the blind and heading back to camp for breakfast I took a buff with the 375.

And thirdly, if there is a follow-up on the leopard, I want as big of a gun as I can find. A 375 is a step in the right direction.

Do or do not, there is no try.