Originally Posted by Der Ami
The 8 Bore was made when men were men and elephants weighed more than three times what a goose weighed. You have to compare 179 ft.lbs. of recoil to getting stomped into a puddle by an elephant.
Mike
There's some truth to that, Mike. Selous thought so until he sawed an elephant's head in half to locate the exact spot at which to place a bullet from different angles. Then, he put the big guns down for good. Sometimes we do what we THINK we have to do, until we wise up.

My point is not why they were first used, but why anyone would want to pay big bucks to shoot one today.


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