[MacD37]

Gentlemen, I dearly love the 375 H&H round, and it, with a 300 gr Nosler Partition, is the only chambering that I have a one shot kills on a Cape buffalo with.

Haveing said that, the bolt CRF action 375 H&H, is a perfect for a one rifle safari. It will shoot flat enough for plains game shooting, even in open country. It is powerfull enough to handle the hunting of Cape buffalo, in open country, as well. However, in tight bush, it is on the light side, when Buffalo, or Ele are on license, even for hunting them, though it will do if that is all you have.

Now! Lets talk stopping! The 375 H&H is NOT a stopper! The verious 416s are barely in that class, especially in a bolt rifle. I hear all this talk about shot placement as being all one needs, to take anything that walks, and that is bunk, when one is discussing stopping calibers. A Cape Buffalo rarely charges unwounded, and the smaller chamberings do kill him nicely when he is not adrenalized, and where you can pick your shots. The cards are delt differently, when he's been poked with a less than instantly leathal hole in his gut.

Now we are talking, shoot him anyplace you can, and as often as you can, as quickly as you can, and you will think he is made out of cast iron before he goes down. There is a quote that says it all here, "when a Buffalo puts together a close charge, your options have been wounderfully simplified, you kill him, or he will kill you!" The quote is true, because a Buffalo will not turn, no matter how many times you hit him, once he charges you!

This is when the hole size matters most, and the heavy bullets are needed, and you still may not stop him in time. But in this case a big hole is far better than a small hole, and a heavy bullet breaks more bone than a light one.

Silly comparisons to BELL, and his silly 7mm are not valid! If he wounded he simply abandoned that one, and shot another. They were not brudoned by law saying they had to follow-up, and sort out a wounded animal, and they didn't. Those guys hunted on foot, and it was not good planning to walk ten miles following a wounde ele, when they were pleantiful. Of course he only wrtoe about the ones he got, not the ones he killed, and didn't get!

The 375 H&H is a hunting rifle, but it is well too small for a stopping rifle!