| JabaliHunter |
| (.400 member) |
| 10/04/16 09:52 PM |
Re: Elephant culling - what caliber is best?
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Mannlicher Schoenauer, the "very best" - why?
I guess because that is what he used an came to trust with his life. Some of the great features of the MS are the extremely slick feeding, very slick and fast bolt cycling and absolutely reliable feeding from the rotary magazine. Plus the short action on the .458 cartridge compared to the magnum Mauser actions. All features that would have been welcome in that hot, dirty, stressful job...
Seems he was not alone: Terry Irwin in Memoirs of an African Hunter (p118) says
"Magazine rifles are not without problems. I occasionally found that, when the bolt is flicked open in a hurry, the rounds in the magazine pop out of the top, preventing you from reloading. I have also had the magazine baseplate-clip open with the recoil, and all the rounds fall out. Both these faults can be disconcerting in the face of dangerous game, necessitating a hasty retreat. These problems disappeared, though, when I bought a Mannlicher-Schoenauer with a revolving magazine, which held each round individually."