| xausa |
| (.400 member) |
| 11/07/18 12:07 AM |
Re: Caliber's choice for hunting
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Light: 300H&H
Medium: 375H&H
Heavy: 500NE
This is the battery I took on my last Safari in Zim this past June. It included Leopard (300H&H), Buffalo (375H&H), and Elephant (500NE). That covers it for me. I've shot Steinbuck with the 375 and Elk with the 300. Plenty of overlap there. The 500 comes out for the heavy stuff in the heavy stuff. If the heavy stuff is in the open, the 375H&H gets it done.
On my three hunts in Kenya and Tanzania, I used the .458 Winchester Magnum and my .505 SRE (ballistically the same as a .500 NE) on rhino, elephant and buffalo, my .375 H&H on lion, leopard, greater and lesser kudu and eland, and my .300 H&H on sable, wildebeest, kongoni, beisa and fringe eared oryx, defassa and common waterbuck, bushbuck, impala, Burchell's and Grevy's zebra, warthog, Cape hunting dog, spotted hyena, Grant's gazelle, Peter's gazelle, Thompson's gazelle and gerenuk. I used a .222 Remington on klipspringer and dik-dik.
Results speak for themselves.
