I,m curious to see your answers

grumpyvette

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just a question one of my neighbors asked me.

"if you were hunting a known man killing tiger, back in the 1930s,in rural INDIA, in a mix of thick cover and open meadows and you only had a choice of only two rifles, available,... would you select a powerful rifle , like a 470 Nitro Express.,break action,double that held 2 cartridges(power roughly similar to a 458 win mag if your not familiar) or a faster firing 35 Remington lever action, that held 6 cartridges?"
and yes youve got a total of 20 cartridges to draw from with either rifle

http://www.chuckhawks.com/35Rem.htm

obviously this is just a mental exercise in logic to some extent as tigers are currently off the normal list of targets and I don,t see them eating enough, hug a tree types, for them to be placed back on the list of shoot on sight varmints, any time soon, but it should prove interesting if you think it thru, comparing the balance of fast fire power with a moderately effective caliber choice, thats fully up to delivering a fatal blow vs harder hitting , but significantly slower rates of fire in a hunting rifle., that makes you limit your shots to almost certain hit ranges, especially when the wrong choice might result in your getting eaten
 
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