.375 H&H and CRF ---

[BusMaster007]

.375 H&H and CRF ---

Here's a couple of links to AFRICAN HUNTER Magazine online specifically covering Dangerous Game Rifles and the .375 H&H on ELEPHANTS.

Since most of us will never go to Africa to hunt Elephants, I thought it might be interesting to share the links.
There are other articles of interest there, including ones on the .303 British and the FN-FAL rifle.

http://www.african-hunter.com/it's_all_in_the_claw.htm

http://www.african-hunter.com/375_on_elephant.htm

After the many debates here and elsewhere about the 'need' for Controlled Round Feed in a rifle, or NOT, I read with interest about the double-feed, brain-fade dangers of using the PushFeed System in a DGR...and my conclusion is this ---

If you can brain-fade with a PushFeed, you can do it with a CRF; the only difference is while the PF guy is jamming , the CRF guy is 'jacking his rifle dry' !

The .375 H&H seems to be plenty enough for ANY North American game, which makes it a good choice HERE.

If you go to AFRICA, I guess you need a CRF in a .40+ cartridge so if you don't jack your rifle dry while you're peeing your pants from a charge by a DRG Target, you'll succeed in knocking yourself on your butt!!!
I think I'll stay in North America and get a PushFeed .375 H&H, thankyouverymuch...There's no place like Home.

 

[BigG]

The controlled feed idea, as told by Jim Keenan, became an issue when the great powers went to spitzer bullets around the beginning of the 20th century. A push feed could leave a loaded cartridge in the chamber if it was not closed all the way. The next stroke of the bolt might drive a pointy object into the chambered round's primer.

Strange things can happen with anything made by man, I'll grant you that. Never say never!

 

[Jim Watson]

Interesting theory, but the most famous controlled feed rifle of all, the '98 Mauser, predates the 8mm JS spitzer by six or seven years, for which time the standard load was RN.