In 1966, Robert Ruark published a book titled, Use Enough Gun. Ironically, there wasn’t a lot in the book about guns or how much gun one might need. But Ruark’s title stuck, and it has become a catchphrase that’s thrown around by those who think you don’t have enough gun. The problem, of course, is that other than opinions there’s no definition of exactly what enough gun is. This can make selecting a cartridge for big game hunting problematic, because opinions, as they say, are, well …
For the hunter, the term “enough gun” implies that the cartridge your rifle is chambered for is capable of ethically killing the species you’re hunting—out to the furthest distance you expect to shoot. Distance is easy to measure, but killing power is not. The great African professional hunter and gun writer
