I've noticed that here in cyberspace, a 375 is a big bore; but 30+ years ago when I was learning bore classification, big bore started with .40 So who rewrote the "rules" and when??? What is the reasoning? How can a .358 or a 9.3 (.366) beconsidered a medium bore, and a mere .011" later we step into Big Bore land??? Please 'splain this to a poor country boy, 'cause I don't get it.

Changing from BP to smokeless also screwed up the system. Now premium bullets have shrunk the necessary bullet size even more. The US “definition†runs quite a bit smaller. Here in the US there are lots of girlie men who can’t handle anything more than a 7mm. Or maybe they just never tried anything big. When guys see you in the field with a 375 and think you are some sort of showoff, you think it was a good thing you left the 505 behind. It’s fun at the range to let guys shoot an African rifle so they can see it doesn’t knock them over. All of our game will fall to small and medium bores regardless of your definition, so big guns aren’t really needed. We do need to practice for our safaris and what better way than to hunt all the time with the big bore.

Also the 375 is the legal minimum for DG in most countries, that may have something to do with it.

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1890 - 577 was a heavy medium
1920 - 416 was a heavy medium
1970 - 358 is a heavy medium

It's a question of viewpoint and what the rounds actually DO... and if they are over .366, make over 40ME, and have an SD over .300 it's a DG rifle ... may not be a bigbore, but it's a DGR

btw, .366, the 9,3x62 is actually the legal minumum for the most dangerous game, in all countries, rather than the 375.

Is a 375HH with a 300GR barnes X and solid at 2500fps "better" than the same with woodleighs? PROBABLY, imho.

partly this is due to gunwriters telling people that a .375 is a bigbore... and that a 358 winchester is a "short range" round... that, along with the special issue 19" gunwriter yardstick.....

Heck, though, I think a bigbore STARTS at 1/2" (well, maybe .475) and the rest are "40 something mediums)...


In all seriousness, I would have no trouble saying that the 376 steyr nominaly makes the grade... just barely, in the right circumstances... and would poke a buffalo with it in a second.

but I would prefer my 550 express!!!

jeffe

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and would poke a buffalo with it in a second

Jeffe,

That brings up all kinds of BAD mental images!