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Marrakai
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Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam
22/03/08 01:12 AM

Aw, c'mon guys, you're being too modest!

A cigarette-box at a hundered yards hunkered down over a steady rest?
Check page 49 of the 1910 H&H catalogue, they put 8 out of 10 into 2 5/8 x 2 inches with an open-sighted DR in front of the editor of The Field. Ten out of ten went into 3 1/4 x 3 3/8 inch.
In fact, check the H&H Trials for the 12-bore Paradox: the tester put 10 out of 10 into 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches in 1886! A Paradox!

We now have better bullets and better powder by far!
...but perhaps not better marksmen?

BTW, this is starting to look like a disagreement: it is not! A scoped medium-bore is definitely the best for plains game including croc for the vast majority of hunters today. But this doesn't mean an express-sighted double wouldn't work! Before decent scopes appeared, most folks did just fine with their open-sighted DRs. ...for everything! ...for decades!

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Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains game	Ripp	17/03/08 05:43 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains game	allenday	19/03/08 12:26 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains game	JPK	19/03/08 12:47 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	ozhunter	19/03/08 05:00 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	NitroX	20/03/08 04:15 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains game	9.3x57	19/03/08 02:31 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains game	JPK	19/03/08 11:33 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	Anonymous	17/03/08 07:44 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	Bramble	17/03/08 07:46 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	AzGuy	17/03/08 10:32 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	ozhunter	17/03/08 04:53 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	JPK	18/03/08 01:17 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	Ripp	20/03/08 10:41 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	Dutch44	21/03/08 01:19 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	ozhunter	21/03/08 08:06 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	Marrakai	21/03/08 10:26 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	NitroX	21/03/08 07:29 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	hoppdoc	21/03/08 10:21 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	Marrakai	22/03/08 01:12 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	NitroX	22/03/08 11:24 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	rscott	22/03/08 01:03 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	NitroX	22/03/08 01:15 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	JPK	28/03/08 03:04 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	hoppdoc	28/03/08 10:04 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	9.3x57	21/03/08 11:20 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	ant458	30/03/08 03:21 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	375fanatic	21/03/08 08:01 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	Marrakai	18/03/08 12:21 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	Mike_Bailey	18/03/08 02:00 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	SAHUNT	18/03/08 05:21 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	AzGuy	18/03/08 06:14 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains gam	Ripp	20/03/08 10:37 PM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains game	hoppdoc	17/03/08 07:40 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains game	peter	17/03/08 06:20 AM
Re: Gun Choice for Lion, buffalo, hippo, croc and plains game	9.3x57	17/03/08 07:22 AM

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