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From: nosun!cvedc!pdx.csd.mot.com!brian@uunet.uu.net (Brian Vandewettering)
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Subject: Re: Best All-Around Caliber
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.091711.1804@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 14:17:11 GMT
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In article <1991Jun26.063956.11463@doug.cae.wisc.edu> keith@clodII.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Keith Boyd) writes:
>
>
>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.

I own a .375 H&H which I have used to take grouse.  The bullets don't
expand on small game which means if you make a decent shot you won't
ruin the meat.  A .22 caliber hole v.s. a .375 hole makes very little
difference, Keith.  If you hit the breast with either weapon, the
animal is a loss.  BTW shotguns will almost always destroy a grouse at
shorter ranges encountered in our Pacific rain forest.

In my mind hunting ethics have much more to do with respect for the
animal.  I have hunted Elk for 5 years without getting a shot at a
bull.  If I do get a shot, the .375 H&H has plenty of power for a
clean, one shot kill.  Being under gunned IS unethical; however, you
are only over gunned if the weapon destroys the animal (Exceptions
noted for crows, starlings, sand rats, etc...:-) :-).  Seriously,
hunting small game with your big game rifle is good practice.  those
who only fire their guns at paper before hunting a deer or Elk in my
mind are unethical.

>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.

Fine, come to Oregon instead.  

>                                                  Regards,
>                                                   Keith Boyd.


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