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Although in North America it is commonly thought that it is only recommended for whitetail deer, pronghorn and the occasional caribou or black bear, the .308 Winchester is among the calibers recommended for hunting brown and grizzly bears by the Alaska Department of Game and Fish. [21]
The .303 British cartridge is suitable for all medium-sized game and is an excellent choice for whitetail deer and black bear hunting. In Canada it was a popular moose and deer cartridge when military surplus rifles were available and cheap; it is still used.
The LAR Grizzly Big-Boar is a breech loading, single shot sniper rifle chambered for .50 BMG rounds. It was developed by L.A.R. Manufacturing Inc., a gunsmithing firm headquartered in West Jordan, Utah.
The .577 Black Powder Express was the go-to dangerous game caliber from the 1870s through 1900. It spawned the .577 Express around 1890, which used smokeless cordite instead of black powder, and then the .577 Nitro Express in 1900, which used modern metal jacketed and solid bullets pushed by more modern smokeless powders.
The .500 Nitro Express / 13x76mmR is a rifle cartridge designed for hunting large and dangerous game animals in Africa and India. [1] This cartridge was primarily designed for use in double rifles though various single shots were produced on the Farquarson action and at least one major company (Heym) produced it in bolt-action configuration.
Mlllions of rifles have been produced in this caliber, with many passed on to a new generation of hunters. [36] The practicality of hunting with an inherited rifle and cartridge, especially if the combination has been seen as effective at modest range, [37] is an important factor in some circles. The widespread availability of .30-30 loads ...
The .350 Legend, also called 350 LGND (9×43mmRB), is a SAAMI-standardized [2] straight-walled intermediate rifle cartridge developed by Winchester Repeating Arms.The cartridge was designed for use in American states that have specific regulations for deer hunting with straight-walled centerfire cartridges.
The .50-140 Sharps, also known as the .50-3 1 ⁄ 4" Sharps, is a black-powder rifle cartridge that was introduced in 1884, as a big game hunting round. [1] It is believed to have been introduced for the Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 rifle. [2] The cartridge is very similar to the .500 Black Powder Express. [3]