So today I was watching videos of a dude shooting blocks of clay with large caliber rifles and it made me think about how when I was a kid me and my friends would talk about "elephant guns" and other stuff kids think is cool around the school yard.
It occurs to me ever since I became an adult and have been gun shopping I have never heard the term once, not from anyone at the range, not when I am hanging out at my LGS looking for cool stuff to start thinking up excuses to buy.
This got me curious and I tried firing up the old google machine to figure out if it was just something we made up as kids or a real thing. Well the old google machine failed me. From what I can gather the term was more commonly used in the blackpowder muzzle loader days. But how it is used these days... well the internet seems to agree it is a large caliber rifle, but some sources said it is used for nitro express rifles, others just claim it's for large caliber magnum rounds.
As far as I am concerned 30-06 will kill just about anything on the planet so I am wondering what qualifies a gun as an "elephant gun"
It occurs to me ever since I became an adult and have been gun shopping I have never heard the term once, not from anyone at the range, not when I am hanging out at my LGS looking for cool stuff to start thinking up excuses to buy.
This got me curious and I tried firing up the old google machine to figure out if it was just something we made up as kids or a real thing. Well the old google machine failed me. From what I can gather the term was more commonly used in the blackpowder muzzle loader days. But how it is used these days... well the internet seems to agree it is a large caliber rifle, but some sources said it is used for nitro express rifles, others just claim it's for large caliber magnum rounds.
As far as I am concerned 30-06 will kill just about anything on the planet so I am wondering what qualifies a gun as an "elephant gun"