Just for fun, if you could have only one caliber for dangerous game, what would it be?

I used to think I would pick a .375. My ideas change from time-to-time but now, I think I would pick a .416 Rigby.

Dave

You just crashed my hard drive with that difficult and imposible calculation... Where can I send the bill

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Originally posted by Dave Bush:
if you could have only one caliber for dangerous game, what would it be?

Dave

Thats just vomitus talk!

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Originally posted by ozhunter:

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Originally posted by Dave Bush:
if you could have only one caliber for dangerous game, what would it be?

Dave

Thats just vomitus talk!

C'mon OZ, you know you would pick the 9,3X62!

As per the original question,"...for dangerous game..." It would be the 505 Gibbs! No Question, for me.

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Originally posted by 500 Fan:
As per the original question,"...for dangerous game..." It would be the 505 Gibbs! No Question, for me.

A 505 for Leopard and lion over bait?

After I used it to shoot the SOB who forced me to choose only one caliber, I would take my .416 Remington Magnum.

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Originally posted by Dave Bush:

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Originally posted by ozhunter:

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Originally posted by Dave Bush:
if you could have only one caliber for dangerous game, what would it be?

Dave

Thats just vomitus talk!

C'mon OZ, you know you would pick the 9,3X62!

For Tuskless cow ele in the Jesse thickets.
I don't think it would be great.

I guess if I were pushed into such a situation I might pick the 404J or 416 Chatfield-Taylor.

416 Rigby...jorge

375 Wby

500 nitro will do it all

turnbolt?
ether 458 AR or 500AR

Double rifle - 470 NE

Given that I'm building a 458AR I really should pick it ... but reckon a 416Taylor would be fine. I'll have both soon enough. No matter what you pick though ... if faced with DG at close range coming in quickly to say "Hi" ... you reckon you wont wish for a bigger stick?
Cheers...
Con

Since I already have a .375H&H and a .395 Ruger Max, will be building a .400 Nitro Express and possibly a .423 on the Ruger case, I have to go along with mrlexma's first shot and then choose the...

Parameters: game that can hunt you back and kill you effortlessly...my 550 Gibbs. I am obviously prejudiced, but to paraphrase a source here "...as big as I can shoot accurately, because there's all kinds of wounded but only one dead...". A 780gr bullet up to 2300fps can take the worry out of shots measured in feet. My 505 Gibbs with Macifej's solids at 2350 fps would be a close second.

Rich
DRSS
Knowledge not shared is knowledge lost...

Easy ...... .458 Lott in a bolt rifle.

.600 OK- If your hunting DG there simply is nothing better.-Rob

.416 Ruger!

416 rem

416 rigby

I am glad it says choice, not best...RGB would have me there!

Rob, what is velocity and bullet weight on your 600?

Rich
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Either the .416 Rigby or .458 AR in a bolt rifle. A .470 NE in a double rifle.

Glad there is no one who can force such a choice!

700/577 or BMG/577 in a 12 lb straight pull bolt gun with 4 or 5 down.

2-Bore single as back-up!

I've gotten pretty fond of the 470 Mbogo...think I'll stick with that for DG.

Cheers,
Canuck

Not trying to be a cartridge pimp here but I would choose the 470 Mbogo also. It will reach out and it will flatten period.
Best of the season
Dave

In a bolt action likely a .404J or a .416 of some nature......maybe a .458 Lott

Sheeeeeeesh!!!! Silly question

Double would be a 470 NE

Well, 450G&A if we are reloading for it. If not a 416 Rigby.

...........Ya MR has it right for me also ....If the question had been for all hunting period ....My answer would be the 375 Ruger ,or the 9.3x64 Brenneke ....But as is the 416 Rem mag works great .............Are there chronograph results for the 395 Ruger Max yet????

.416 Rigby without a doubt.

I choose the 458 Lott. I will shoot the 500 gr Monlithic Solids by A-Square 2350 FPS.

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Originally posted by jro45:
I choose the 458 Lott. I will shoot the 500 gr Monlithic Solids by A-Square 2350 FPS.

2250... 2350 means a shoothataway brass life

The proper 416-416 Rigby, as I have one,and have used. Also it is on upper end of what I can shoot accurately and comfortably. Meaning if I want to go to range won't have to limit the number of rounds I put thru it.

Ditto the .416 Rigby. If you could only have one, that would be the one.

.450 #2, of course, with the .450NE a close second.

.416 Rem.........or maybe my .450 Ackley.......or maybe......ah hell, I dont know.....

Don't have chronograph info on the .395 Max as yet. Rifles were finished only one and two days before we left for elk hunting. Now that I'm back, and when the snow stops, I'll take the Oehler out to the range and check this out.

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Originally posted by Dave Bush:
Just for fun, if you could have only one caliber for dangerous game, what would it be?

I used to think I would pick a .375. My ideas change from time-to-time but now, I think I would pick a .416 Rigby.

Dave

There is but one reason a man could be forced to comply with such a stupid sugestion!!
I would divorce her & find a new one!!

30-06 with solids...


No really in a double - probably a 500 NE -
In a bolt probably a 416 Rigby...
Brian

OZHUNTER, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION..."YES"!
I'm a big fan and user of the 416 Rigby and shot a lion and two cape buffalo with it last August. However, I'd rather have a little to much gun on the bottom end and enough on the top end rather than not enough anywhere. For me the 505 for the Big 5 Big 6 Bull Hyrax etc.