Yes my words have been misinterpreted, I did say "fuck and move on" not "fuck it". The curse is to one's self for botching a stalk and missing or wounding an animal. Not a "fuck it" couldn't care a less attitude. Myself and every other hunter I have been with have always put a lot of time in to verify if an animal was indeed missed or wounded.

The thing I treasure in our hunting environment is that we do not have dick heads who take the moral high ground and chastise those who do foul up a stalk or shot, or who have a hunting system that has a component of distain for missed shots or even multiple shots to get an animal down.
We here in NZ and I'm sure Australia too (it's certainly been my experience with Aussie's anyway), accept that things do not always go right and life goes on without recriminations.

We are not so bloody stuck up and up ourselves that we have to dictate to others what firearms to use or clothing to wear for hunting and get our stiff upper lips in a quiver when someone suggests otherwise because that is the done thing.

That was my point and maybe that is probably why we have the easiest firearm ownership in the world and basically free hunting anywhere in our country for a good range of game animals.

To the OP question, to me the 7x57 stands as good as any for taking Sambar as it did in the hands of good shots for taking thousands of elephants and other African game dangerous or otherwise.