Question for the regular hunters and their preferred calibres...
Been doing lots of reading on hunting lately, obviously different calibres come up.
Favourites as everyone knows are .308, 30-06, 300 win mag and so on for bigger or tougher stuff here in Oz.
Wrapped up one article in the SSAA mag on a pair of mates hunting goats and pigs. They both had 30-30's, one had a .308 and the other had a .416 Rigby.
They're not hunting record breaking boar or anything like that, and the guy in the article even said he's worried when he goes out about how much recoil he can take over a weekend on the .416 Rigby.
So why bother? Seems like just going overboard for the sake of a big bang.
Anything in Oz actually NEED something that hard hitting you reckon?