| grandveneur |
| (.400 member) |
| 21/06/23 08:14 PM |
Re: Vintage Rigbys - .416, .350, .275
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The three cartridges quoted are very good cartridges and may have covered the needs of the time. Nowadays, however, we have other standards and also enough well-suited cartridges for almost all hunting situations worldwide. Hunting ethics have also changed, injured game that go away is managed differently than in the past.
GV, just teasing and joking, because animals have become so much tougher in the last 100 years.
European mountain hunters used to use the 7x57 and 6.5x54 fine.
Another PH said I couldn't hunt eland with my .30-06 in Zimbabwe, at the concession one night, "it wasn't big enough", my PH later told me about it, and wanted to prove him wrong. One angled shot to the heart and an insurance broadside shot to knock it over, proved the idiot PH wrong. A 7x57 and a .30-06 is not a big difference.
But yes, if spending a mortgage on Asian mountain game, I'd trade up to a flat Magnum. Maybe my 8x68S. It isn't a light rifle though.
BUT just like a hundred years ago, I'd be happy with a .275, .350, and .416, plus RFs and small game rifles and shotguns, would cover anything on Earth.
One can only give good comments about the cartridge 416 Rigby. It is not for nothing that more than a DR caliber 577NE remained in the safe in favor of a rifle caliber 416 Rigby in the past.
The cartridge 350 Rigby was not exactly a success. The number of weapons that have been converted to caliber 375 H&H Magnum is not small.
As for the cartridge 7x57, it performed well with the 175gr bullet, but at short ranges. It was never a long-range cartridge, in Europe mountains hunters more likely used the cartridge 6,5x57. The cartridge 6,5x54 MS was also not a long range cartridge either. One must not forget that one used in the past for hunting in the mountains sometimes completely different techniques than nowadays. The "Riegeljagd" for example is hardly practiced nowadays, and you don't need a long-range cartridge for that.