Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!doug.cae.wisc.edu!osnome.che.wisc.edu!hunting
From: keith@clodII.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Keith Boyd)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Best All-Around Caliber
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.063956.11463@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 11:39:55 GMT
Lines: 54
Approved: hunting@osnome.che.wisc.edu
Originator: hunting@osnome.che.wisc.edu


 Dominique Morel writes in response to post by Joseph Crunk:

> From: cpdlm@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Dominique Morel)
> Subject: Re: Best rifle caliber
> Organization: James Cook University
> 
> 
> >Any inputs anyone has on any of the .300's would be appreciated.
> >-Joseph Crunk
> 
> Well I have never shot or been In North America. I have only been in Europe, 
> Africa, and Australia, but I have only hunted in Australia. I have
> have only one rifle I would keep my BRNO ZKK 602 in .375 H & H mag.
> 
> shot much game with the .375 and have never found it wanting. I use the
> beautiful 300 Sierra Spitzer Boat Tail bullets for all excecpt the
> Buffalo and wild cattle, where I use the 300 grain Hornandy Solids. I
> have found that the bullet is slow enough to kill without much bruising
> and yet fast, accurate and heavy enough to kill realiably. I have shot
> ducks and rabbits with it as well as many pigs and other game. It kills
> ^^^^^^    ^^^^^^^ 
> 	Dominique  Morel
>

Note: I realize this is probably out of the realm of rec.hunting guide
      lines but I hope our kind moderator will permit this one post 
      which I just had to get off my chest.

[Moderator's Note:  Hunting ethics are a valid topic.]


Dear Dominique,
 Joseph Crunk was asking for advice on rifle calibers to hunt BIG GAME
in North America. I believe that ducks and rabbits are considered to be
SMALL GAME here. Anyone who would consider using a .375 H&H Magnum to
hunt small game is being highly unethical in my honest opinion. There
is something called a shotgun to hunt SMALL GAME with you know. What's
more, I believe it is illegal to hunt ducks here with a rifle anyway.
If you ever do come to the United States please don't come to here to
South Carolina because we don't need this kind of hunter. So there.
                                                  Regards,
                                                   Keith Boyd.

P.S.  I may be wrong for publicly blasting Dominique and if so I apologize,
      but I felt that hunter ethics have to be upheld and someone needed
      to point this out.
  
---
| Keith M. Boyd  (NCR E&M Cola.) |  Nothing could be fina' than huntin' and  |
| 3325 Platt Springs Rd. ________|  fishin' in South Carolina!  -Me-         |
| West Cola., S.C. 29170 | Std Disclaimers | keith@clodII.columbiasc.NCR.COM |
| ph: 803-791-6419   |  From uunet: !uunet!ncrcom!ncrcae!sauron!clodII!keith |