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Big game hunting
Nice edit to make readers think. I find it hard to believe that stopping charging elephants with substandard shot placement is possible with any type of normal rifle. I think some rifle and ammunition combinations give more or less room for human and technical errors. Knowing your game and capabilities of your gun and yourself and being able to effectively use your rifle in suboptimal conditions matters most. Judging when to leave your trigger finger strait and wait and hope for another chance is the hardest part of hunting anyhow, but normally you have a hunting guide in Africa to help you with that. At http://www.lima-wiederladetechnik.de/585/577-Tyrannosaur-Loads.htm you can see a .577 custom built projectile for a big dangerous game cartridge. The designer thinks it can pass through 40 cm (15.7 in) of solid bone at 100 m (109 yd). This cartridge will hit hard on both ends of the rifle and the designer is waiting on actual shooting and hunting reports of his client. Even with such a cartridge I would not like to be around the elephant when it is not decently hit in a vital zone.--Francis Flinch (talk) 17:07, 2 July 2008 (UTC)