[mylife]

When I want to save $ target shooting I take 8mm Mauser.
15 rds of that and you’ll put the gun away. :)

[Mouton]

I have a 7-08 Browning. I like the 150gr fed power shok rounds for price and accuracy in this caliber. My rifle does not shoot accurately with weights under the Hornady 139gr.

[Manly Warrior]

Regarding Ads, maybe that the heavy 7mm exceeded the mid weight for caliber 375 300, however if we are looking at SD as. Performance criteria, the the 220 30 cal end nose beats then both, at .330

Obviously 7mm heavies work, just like 160 6.5 a and 400. .416s etc.

Not so sure there is an argument to be made.

The biggest benefit of small calibers in the era you mention was improved performance over the British express cartridges of the day, light for caliber fairly fast 400 + diameter rounds.

The gain of full jacketed RN and tough softs in small and mid bores was construction first, the SD then velocity.

There really is a reason for caliber minimums in Africa. There ought to be a penetration min as well.

[schurmann]

"...at the Battle of San Juan Hill, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders realized that the fast, accurate, flat-shooting Mauser 93s in 7mm Mauser were far superior to their .45-70 Springfields..." [from paragraph 3 of the original article] The author is wrong. The 1st US Volunteer Cavalry (nicknamed Rough Riders) was armed with M1896 Krag carbines, the only non-Regular Army outfit so equipped during the Spanish-American War. The other Volunteer Cavalry units were equipped with Trapdoor Springfield rifles, chambered in 45-70. So were National Guard units. Theodore Roosevelt was second-in-command of the Rough Riders. Leonard Wood was the official commander.