Gary Reeder
Jon, Alcorn and Doug Faith are all right. It is
Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 13:12

not an African cartridge. Alcorn and Doug have both been with me in Africa and know what they are talking about. My gut feeling is Jon has been there too.

The 7X57 (AKA 275 Rigby) took thousands of elephant but was done with a very well placed brain shot by a very good shot. It, like the Creedmoor, is not a cartridge I would recommend for all around African hunting.

I have watched African game hit with cartridges equal to the Creedmoor run off making for a long day tracking. In my humble opinion the 300 Win Mag is still the perfect plains game cartridge and the 375 H&H for the large plains game. And I say this even being a strictly handgun hunter. Kase shot a Common Reedbuck point of shoulder with a custom 378 Weatherby and it ran off. The same thing happened the next day with a Blue Wildebeest. All should have dropped on the spot but ran off. We finally chalked the 378 Weatherby as being way too fast for the 270 grain bullet and the bullet exploding on impact.

The main thing in Africa is shot placement. A shot in the ass with a 458 is still a shot in the ass. Colleen used her 300 Win Mag for 3 of her big African game on this past hunt for one shot dropped on the spot kills, and shot 2 others including her monster Cape Buffalo with a 458 rifle I built for her, again one shot kills.

To get to the gist of this never ending answer, the Creedmoor is an excellent target cartridge and should be left at home when venturing to Africa.

On this next (and last) African hunt of mine, good Lord willing, I plan to use the 450 GNR for my Cape Buffalo as I did a couple of years ago. I am bringing my 416 GNR as back up and my 310 GNR for the long range plains game animals. In handgun hunting 225 to 250 yards is long range.