Classic Africa Hunting Cartridges With Kevin Robertson 

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When I originally wrote the following I meant it as a general comment to the video and not just as a reply to the gentleman writing about the 270 and 375 Weatherby. I’m utube technically challenged. Very interesting and informative. I have rifles in some of the cartridges discussed including 6.5x55 Swede, 270 Winchester, 7x57 Mauser, 308 Winchester, 338-06 , 35 Whelen and 9.3x62 Mauser. The other bigger bangers I can only fantasize about adding to my collection just to say I have one. Probably the tops on that list would be the 416 Rigby followed by the 375 H&H. I’m a 70+ old fart with a penchant for the nostalgic. There’s nothing nostalgic about a 375 Ruger, 416 Remington or 416 Ruger. I’ll admit they may all be ballistically superior to the old ones with the same bore or bullet diameter. I’m surprised that the 300 H&H didn’t get a single mention. I know it’s an old fashioned long action cartridge but I can make my 721 Remington BDL Deluxe do anything a 300 Win Mag will do. The gentleman I got my Husqvarna 9.3x62 from was born British but grew up hunting in Africa when his father was a game ranger. Now he lives in the U.S. , arranges African Safaris and still hunts in Africa. He has very similar views to Mr. Robertson on suitable cartridges for hunting various African game species and has taken 3 buffalo in recent years with the 9.3x 62 that I got from him but his two favorites are the 300 Win Mag and the 375 Weatherby Magnum. My 7x57 is built on a Kar. 98 Mauser action. In discussing the 7x57 vs the 270 Winchester he was emphatically in the 7x57 with a 175 grain bullet camp as being superior to the 270 Winchester for African plains game. I was skeptical until I checked out the current Nosler reloading manual. The 175 grain Nosler Accubond Long Range and Partion bullets with a sectional density of 0.310 can be pushed to over 2500 fps with modern powders and still be within SAAMI specs. The AB LR has a ballistic coefficient of 0.648 and the Partion comes in at 0.519 so not quite as flat a shooter as the AB LR but when sighed dead on at 250 yards they’re both only about 4 inches high above the line of sight at 150 yards before falling to just a little more than 4.5 inches low at 300 yards still with average velocity over 2100 fps velocity and over 1775 ft lbs remaining kinetic energy. That puts its maximum effective point blank range at close to 300 yards. Plenty good for any North American game up to the size and toughness of elk and plenty good for African plains game especially at the typical shooting distances that Mr Robertson described. All the younger set of internet know nothings who never read any of Jack O’Connors writings think he only hunted with the 270 Winchester which is far from the truth. In his Complete Book of Rifles and Shotguns Jack wrote that if he could have only one rifle to hunt the world over it would be a 375 H&H Magnum. Of course he went on to say that if he could have a second rifle it would be a 270 Winchester, but Jack’s favorite for dangerous game was the 416 Rigby. Jack’s enthusiastic writing for the Rigby is said to have saved the cartridge from total obscurity among American hunters. My hunting has been very limited in recent years because of health issues and I’m probably SOL for the remainder of this year because of a hip replacement a little over a month ago so I’ll have to live vicariously through my favorite Utubers . Happy hunting boys and girls!😊

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@Thebiggamehuntingblog been watching a few of your videos and its funny seems as though if you send a nosler partition to fast it doesnt do what its supposed to. Fascinating

I bet the 338 with modern day bullets would take even rhino and elephant.

​@@anonymousf454considering those animals have been taken on more than a few occasions with a 30-06, and many elephants have been taken with a 7x57 and even a 6.5x54 (as opposed to the 6.5x55 Swede), you are probably right, but there are still better choices.

Nice! What sort of MV are you getting with that 20" barrel?

Never used a chrono on it in the thirty years I have owned it.

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I'll bet!

Glad I can help scratch that itch!

I may need to just carve out a weekend and sit down face to face with him to re-record all these episodes with top notch sound...

@@Thebiggamehuntingblog That'd be great. Any vids on Savage 250, 300, 303, 22 hi-power or .35 Whelen would be outstanding. I appreciated he talked a minute about the Whelen.

​I enjoy the interviews with him but it was kind of hard to hear him and he has a little accent that makes it a little tougher for me to catch all he says.

No specific reason. I think we just accidentally skipped over it. The 416 Remington is basically the same as the 416 Rigby and has virtually all the same good points as that cartridge, just operating at a higher pressure. Not a darn thing wrong with hunting with it!

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Absolutely!

Awesome, thanks! Good question about the 300 H&H. I honestly just forgot to mention it in this episode. It can't hold a candle to the 300 Win Mag in terms of popularity, but there are still a decent numbers of guys who use the 300 H&H and it will do basically everything the 300 Win Mag will do.

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The 325 gr 9.3x62 is a favored bullet here in Scandinavia for moose and bear. Spesialy in thick forested areas. Good effect on game, But it does not have the best tradjectory. So the 232 and espesialy the 285 is the most popular all around.

​ Thank you for sharing your experience! Now I know how to use the 325 grains. Thanks a lot.

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Who knows! Interesting story for sure...

Huh? We do indeed talk about the 416s.