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To: oldenuff2no
Nope, I play the odds, and you should too. I can't remember if it was "Karamojo" Bell or J.A. Hunter who used to dispatch elephants with a .30 cal. (may even have been the old 6.5 Mannlicher) . . . but both were exceptional shots and cool heads. I'm a pretty serious shooter, but not on that level . . . and I believe in being just a leetle overpowered for whatever I'm going after.

The .348 was the premier brush-busting NA big game gun for a quarter-century. My dad took bear and boar with it, and it'll do for whitetail as well. The recoil is not unmanageable if you practice with it. .308 is a bit underpowered for dangerous game. And any boar hog is dangerous game . . . I am quite familiar with them because they infest my parents' island in coastal GA. They usually run, but the occasional big boar will stand his ground. A number of folks on the island have had dogs killed - big dogs, not yappers. I do not walk out on the island in the dusk without my .41 Mag . . . just in case. (I don't have a .44 Mag because that's my definition of a "useless cannon". I put a couple of cylinders full through a friend's S&W, the cylinder release came loose and cut a nasty gash in my thumb.)

And I'd like a .375 just because . . . mom and dad were planning to hunt Kodiak bear in Alaska - dad bought the .348 for mom, and he was shopping for a .375 when mom turned up pregnant with me. Every so often he looks at me with a wistful sigh and asks, "Why couldn't you wait until I'd bought the .375?" Neither the .348 nor a 7mm Rem Mag with full house loads bothers me particularly, and I can always download the .375 . . . (can't own a firearm without owning the dies, right?)

71 posted on 05/28/2007 1:32:29 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother
My choice is a ruger special run bisley black-hawk SS in 45LC. With the +P corbon ammo that the ruger will handle it will stop a bear (already has and not by choice) or a big hog.
My choice of rifles is a little bit off beat. I prefer the 280AI stoked with 170 Nosler CT bullets running out at just under 3000 FPS. If it doesn't bite back the 280AI gets the call. The AI has taken black bear, moose, elk, deer, and hogs with a single well placed shot. To tell you the truth I don't remember how many animals I have harvested with my 280AI.
91 posted on 06/03/2007 5:26:20 PM PDT by oldenuff2no
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