Try that with a M1911.I could do it. Would it be my first choice? No. But in an emergency I could do it with a .22LR. Heck the greatest of the original Great White Hunters on the African continent in the late 19th century was a guy named Karamojo Bell. He regularly took elephant with a 6mm. That's a .243 folks. Shot 'em right thru the eye everytime. The importance of shot placement is shown once again.
Ah yes...6mm...a.k.a. .243. We've got a Rem M-700 here that I did VERY minor work on. Nothing that you couldn't do in the kitchen. Mainly, we took almost
ALL of the overtravel out of the trigger. The M-700 trigger is very adjustable. The trigger weight was reduced to "about" 2 lbs, and we reduced the length of travel to (I "think") about .015" before sear disengages.
Then, we ground the bbl beds out of the stock, and put a "credit card shim" under the main bolt that holds the receiver to the stock. You have to drill a hole in the card, and trim it up nicely, but it lifts the bbl out of the stock just "enough". After this...we stuck some decent optics on it, and were
VERY careful with handloads. Now the rifle shoots .3" groups at 300 yards...so long as there is no wind. :-) Here's a picture of it! :-)
Sorry it's a little hard to tell what it is. Ah...you seen on M-700, ya seen em all. :-)
Close but not exactly right.
Our school library had "Karamojo Safari" and I read it in high school. Have read quite a bit about him since.
Bell primarily used the 6.5 Mannlicher Schoenauer (unsure of the spelling) and .275 Rigby (7mm Mauser). He used the long parallel sided round nose fmj bullets because he thought penetration was the most important thing in killing elephants and other large game.
I have some of those old type bullets in 6.5 Swedish Mauser and their penetration is astounding. They will shoot right through a large (very large) tree trunk.
The graveyards are full of what remains of Karamojo wanna-bes.
Placement and adequate penetration were his guiding principles.