G'Day Fella's,

OVNY, the .300 Magnums, are all powerful, flat shooting cartridges!
The only down side (apart from Recoil) is that I have seen more Broken wooden stocks, scope bases, scope rings, scopes etc on .300 Mags, than all other calibers combined!!!

Because of this, when I have been given the job of setting up any hard recoiling firearm (especially .300's), there are a series of things that I do that should resolve any future problems arising.
So far, so good!

Further to the potent capacity of a .300 Win Mag in the right hands, a customer of mine, lets call him "Fred" booked some kind of self guided (or partially ?) hunt to Africa to shoot various plains game and a couple of Cape Buffalo. The PH was horrified when Fred told him, the only rifle he had with him was his .300!
Now Fred is a bloody good Rifle shot and of course the plains game were biting the dust Left, Right and Center!
Fred then went on to shoot two Cape Buff, both one shot each on running game!!!

From what I remember, he was using 180 grain Barnes X bullets and because this was maybe 10 years ago now, they would have been an earlier version, of the X bullet.

So don't try to tell Fred he was under gunned, as he has a wall full of critters to prove HE was capable of doing a very good job of it, with his .300 Magnum!

Hope this helps.

HooRoo
From
Hommer