Can .308Win do everything that .375H&H do?

[TIRED TRAVELER]

Change Is Not Always Easy

The change is not only in which rifle is kept, but in you and what you will do with it.

Choose the rifle you want and modify your actions to suite the rifle.

Change is a process, not an event!

JIM

 

[noob_shooter]

toss both and just grab a rifle chambered in 50BMG.. that will do more than just killing animals. it will also take other things down too..

 

[Redneck with a 40]

The .308 will do everything I envision it will have to do. I primarily use mine for 300 yd target shooting, which is fun and satisfying. I'm not a hunter, but I could easily bag an Elk with this gun if I had too, the biggest animal I would ever hunt.

 

[Langlo]

Would u consider shooting birds ? Here in Norway we use the 308 with FMJ for birds down to grouse size and up to moose with exåanding bullets. I dont know about 375 H&H and birds? ,, But perhaps some have experience ?

 

[ArmedBear]

In most of the US, it's illegal to shoot any birds with centerfire rifles, though rimfires are sometimes legal for some kinds of grouse.

 

[Acera]

Didn't someone say about the .375 in Africa,

"Too big for 75% of the game, and too small for the other 25%."


Sell the .375, and go buy ammo for the .308 and practice until you are really comfortable and accurate with it.

How easy is it to find ammo for the big gun? That .308 can be a great all around gun.

 

[HankB]

Hasn't the .308 been used to kill a lot of elephants?

Experienced government cropping officers in places like Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) used FAL rifles in 7.62 NATO on elephant; the FMJ or AP ammo worked fine on juveniles and cows, but getting through all the bone for a brain shot on a large bull proved difficult.

Didn't someone say about the .375 in Africa,

"Too big for 75% of the game, and too small for the other 25%."

Whoever said that was wrong.

 

[testosterone]

I doubt that.

Many a country boy and farmer would argue with you...

 

[testosterone]

Hasn't the .308 been used to kill a lot of elephants?

I've read, but can't cite..the .303 british has probably taken more elephants than all other cartridges combined.

 

[Offfhand]

Quote from above:

"Experienced government cropping officers in places like Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) used FAL rifles in 7.62 NATO on elephant; the FMJ or AP ammo worked fine on juveniles and cows, but getting through all the bone for a brain shot on a large bull proved difficult."

This is mostly correct, however the number of elephant killed in legal herd thinning in no way compares with the herds virtually wiped out in East Africa by the military using NATO ammo in large scale poaching operations. Within a decade more elephant were killed with full jacket 7.62 than with the .375 H&H during all the years it had existed.

 

[mljdeckard]

I have watched an elk walk away from a .308 hit. They guys who shot it tried to track it the next day but couldn't get to it, the season had ended, so they couldn't take another shot at it. Elk have a fat layer that seals up after a wound, so sometimes if you don't get a hit on a vital organ or blood vessel, they won't bleed out. Of course a better shot would have helped, but a heavier, bigger bullet would likely have penetrated deeper and caused more cavity trauma.

I don't hunt elk regularly, but if I did, I would want something with magnum in the title.

And no, I wouldn't even use a .22 on deer if I were poaching.

 

[Redneck with a 40]

mlj, a big factor in all of that is bullet weight and style, plus shot placement. A 180 grain trophy bonded bear claw in .308 would most likely get the job done, leaving the barrel at close to 2600 fps, out to 200 yards.

 

[Walkalong]

For Alabama yes, .........for Alaska no...

Thread over!

Yep.

 

[9mmepiphany]

Didn't someone say about the .375 in Africa,

"Too big for 75% of the game, and too small for the other 25%."

i seem to remember that quote referring to the 30-06 or the 300 Win Mag

the .375 H&H is the definitive African medium calibre...the .276 Rigby was the "light" (possibly better know as the 7x57mm)

 

[berettashotgun]

That's a big negative rubberduck
Get outta here.

 

[9mmepiphany]

^^^

do you mean you don't think of the .375 H&H as a "medium" or the 7x57mm asa "light" in Africa?

 

[Casefull]

I have both and I think it is a __________ question in the first place. The 375 can replace the 308 but not the other way around.

 

[H&Hhunter]

.308 can't transect an Elk cow hip to shoulder at 75 yards in deep timber. .375... no problem.

Gaiudo,

Now where have you ever seen that done? Sounds like a fairy tale to me. That elk and about 20 others who've shared it's fate didn't have much to say afterward however.

The only people that I've ever talked to who trash talked a the .375H&H were those who hadn't used one on game.

And there aren't any flies on a .308 but we are comparing two entirely different rounds. By the way it was Jeff Cooper who said the 75 & 25 percent thing about the .375H&H. I think he was wrong on that one. But that is just my limited and uneducated opinion.

My quickest one shot kill on a cape buffalo was with the puny and inadequate .375H&H.

 

[MNgunhead]

No. If you need to ask, sell the 375.

 

[ForneyRider]

375H&H with 225gr Hornady is excellent varmint round with plenty of Varget powder. Little on the spendy side.

 

[Water-Man]

The answer is NO!