NitroX
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| 04/05/09 03:23 PM |
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Re: 416 Rigby or 458 Lott
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There has, I believe, always been confusion and disagreement over these definitions. This Big Bore Rifle board uses, as do many, the .375H&H as the beginning. I disagree and define the .375 as a large medium bore. IMO large bores start at .40 and include the .404Jeff and all .416 rifles. ...
NE uses the .375 as the start of "big bores" merely because a lot of hunters think of it that way and use it as a "big bore" on safari.
IMO "big bore" starts the .450 and above, and that was once a widely held definition for a long period of time, when NE cartridges "ruled" big game hunting fields. But there was a period when a non-bore cartridge was a medium or small bore too. Times and definitions change.