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Nothing wrong with trivia debates such as this. As previously stated, when “over killing”, it doesn’t make a hill of beans difference. When the game gets more serious, I believe in stepping up the power rather than show boating with an inadequate or marginal cartridge. Funny thing though….. how many people these days actually have the depth of field experience to discern the minutia between cartridges that are somewhat similar?

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Exactly... getting to be fewer and fewer..

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Another....exactly.

And on this forum there are an abundance of fellows who have in a year more game killing experience than I in my lifetime.

So I can only express what my limited experience is and by some quirk it occasionally resonates. I've owned two .375's {Heym and SAKO}. The Heym was junk and the only one I own now is my old SAKO, well-used over the years and now reblued and rescoped. Got that one in 1987. I've owned and still own two 9.3x62's and along those lines, did own three 9.3x57's. Two of the latter were M98 actioned 146 Husqvarnas along with one 46. Great black bear and deer rounds and good on close up elk, too. Maybe my favorites for deer and black bear, frankly, with the soft Prvi Partizan bullets. The x62's were/are a CZ550 converted from 6.5x55 and now my bear gun since I no longer have x57's. It's got a 16.5" barrel and is very handy with or without scope. The other x62 is one I got about 3 years ago and has become a favorite, a Sauer 100. Not usually my cup of tea, plastic stock and whatnot but wow what a nice functional rifle it is. And very light, scoped a little over 7 pounds.

I've killed deer, elk, & plains game in Africa and varmints with the .375. Deer, elk, black bear and varmints with the x62. All with those calibers at less than 200 yards. Those with more experience can scrap over which is better. I like them both. I don't notice much difference frankly and to that list of calibers with similar performance on similar game, truth told I could add a few other calibers as well, such as the .30-06. I remember Finn Aagaard saying something like that many years ago, making the point that on smaller thin-skinned game up to kudu/elk size} the mediums do well but not much noticeably better by actual witness than some of the lighter calibers, and that one notices the difference really as the game gets bigger. I guess I'll accept that point and not argue if somebody chooses to disagree.

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