Armedbear
The Dangerous Game Rifle moniker can be applied to different rifles and calibers depending on the animal we are talking about.
A 30-30 or a 35 Remington can be perfectly considered a dangerous game rifle if we are talking about pumas or black bear.
On the other end, a 375 H&H cannot be considered an ideal elephant stopper.
The minimum African big 5 caliber requirement at 375 H&H has been considered ridiculous
only for lions not by me but by different experienced African hunters, including the South African gentleman that sold me his rifle...a Mauser sporter in 30-06 and he always got his lions, including charging situations.
I do not think is hard to understand the difference between a thick skinned, massively boned 7000 lb Rhino or over 20.000 lb Elephant and a 500 lb at best thiun skinned lion....
Stopping a charge
for good has EVERYTHING to do with a CNS hit...
A wounded animal will die depending on where the wound is...a 303 hit in one of his lung will result in a quicker death than a gut shot with a 375....trying to extrapolate a bigger round effectiveness in a wound situation (angle?? distance?? and hundreds of other variables) is misleading at best...
So what happen to the wounded animal has nothing to do with he caliber...
Gaiudo
303... Not a dangerous game round. Can you hit the vitals of a charging or fleeing animal from all angles? If you can't, it's not a dangerous game round.
A bit of confusion here...ability to aim in a dangerous situations has nothing to do with caliber but with the ability of the shooter..
Yes a 303 with proper bullets can hit the vitals or the CNS of a lion from
any angle especially at the short distances typical of a charge.
there is a reason the "old guys" used massive 4bores, 500nitros, and bigger guns than I'd ever care to use
Again...mixing apples with oranges here....let's clarify...
1) 4 bores
With black powder the only way to increase the power of a cartridge was to increase enormously the size and weight of the projectiles....
2) 500 Nitro
Was never intended as a lion charge stopper cartridge!!!