| JabaliHunter |
| (.400 member) |
| 18/12/07 12:34 AM |
Re: "45-70 is the way to go from Ele to T Rex "
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I cannot see why anybody would choose to go with the .45-70 over some other more-commonly used cartridge for heavy African game
Neither can I - alot appear to do it just to prove that they can
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if such hotrodded .45-70 "stunt loads" are to be condemned so should such cartridges as the mediums cited above.
I don't have anything against pushing performance to the limits and I am fully in favour of heavy for calibre bullets in any of the medium bores that you mention, particularlty the 375. However, when you factor in that you mostly have to rely on handloads, if they got lost on route to Africa you would be reliant on locally sourced rounds which are unlikely to be as powerful. As such, a "just because I can" round, while fun, does not class as a true DG round IMHO