I continue to belive that the members of this forum are unique.Why?

The poll taken is a very small sample of the group at large but with ~125 hits should reflects its general tendencies.

If you examine the rifle poll 45 of 80 times the rifles experienced (or over 50% of the time) were at least where a 375 H&H recoil level firearm was shot. Every voter averaged voting for ~2.5 catagories.

Compare this to the experience of most North American hunters and few if any will go past a 338 level gun.Why? Cause the recoil is at a level they feel they don't need or wish to tolerate.Granted that most have never hunted anything larger than whitetail and most have never been on an elk hunt so that is what you would expect. I would guess the max recoil level for most would be the 300 mag niche. For aussies the circunstances are different with different game to experience.

Necessity or desire is the motivation to get "bigger guns".Is hunting dangerous game the reason for shooting the heavier weaponry? Methinks so.

Cheers and good hunting to all!!