stronger bolt material for high pressure loads??

[mongoosesnipe]

After a shooting a Manlicher stocked 7x57 carbine for a while, I understand the love for the cartridge and Bell's pick.

Maybe Elephants were different back then, but seems to me it would take a big pair to walk up to one and pop it in the ear hole!

It was back in the beginning of the commercial ivory hinting and he would sit 200 yards back in a blind and shoot them in the head and the elephants were not familiar with the idea of being hunted and did not know gunshots like they do now it was a lot more of a slaughter than a hunting excersise similar to the elimination of the great buffalo herds of the American west

That being said ivory poachers and not going around with $30k double guns and shooting elephants with ammunition which cost $40 a round most of them use surplus Mauser rifles and surplus military fmj ammo