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Beauty in the "Best" --- .375 H&H
Posted by Brian Richardson on Mar 01 2006
Using .375 H&H with a 300 grainer… she's dead on at 50 and 100 yards w/ enough punch and penetration to do a whole lot of vital damage from front to rear aiming center mass. Mike - as some have said a second time around and was certainly pointed out in my first response --- 50 Yards center mass shooting with suitable guns/cartridges is High percentage - NOT low! Defining the lowest percentage shot is taking aim at the Moose brain – that is definitely low due to the fact that it is such a tiny percentage of the Moose head and so well confined within head mass.
Like others have pointed out in defense of ethics, responsibility and so on. My post also addressed options in tactics, having patience, opportunity for follow-ups if needed, and a 50 yarder being a higher percentage shot than a 200 yarder especially in wind or nasty weather (rested or un-rested).
There is absolutely nothing in my post to umpire the scenario as ethically approving to all. So I am also not persuaded by the reasoning behind your follow-up post. It really all comes down to familiar terms - (I will add) universally for all hunters!!! Are you on the ball as far as practicing routinely with your equipment? Are you an accomplished enough shot, prepared at given (or known) distances of an encounter, and confident with your suitable gun/cartridge selection? Have you been in this scenario before (experience often holds the keys of success)? In other words - are we as hunters on familiar terms with what the heck we are doing in the field? (you - not meaning you Mike - I communicate this to all hunters)
I will stick by my guns on this and still say (not take) “make” the frontal facing shot at 50 yards!
PS - the .458 LOTT is a great caliber for frontal center mass placement and a fine 50 yard performer… In better terms - that is precisely and "potently" what the cartridge was designed to do. It's purpose built to dispatch dangerous, large game on adrenalin “ethically as feasible” on frontal mass stops.
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