Yet another reason I ought have kept my CZ550 in .416 Rigby. I bought it for Sasquatch defense of course. Nothing like sitting up at night watching reruns of "Finding Bigfoot" and having the stunning realization that you lack a suitable dangerous game rifle and any errant lovelorn Bigfoot could just bust right in and attempt to mate. Or just eat you. But I digress....
The nice thing about so called "elephant rifles" was that they also work on everything smaller than an elephant. Thus one need never fear a riled possum, meat eating squirrel, chicken raptor, escaped monkey, or leperousy ridden armadillo again.
Having already witnessed one escaped cow, and oddly enough one random wandering mule, two goats and a pig, I may have been remiss in not staying prepared. I guess my .45-70 carbine will have to do in a pinch.
Which now that I think about, there did used to be a class of North American cow gun, which was the Buffalo rifle. (There are buffalo around here, and moose, lots of elk, bears, mountain lions...and those 1.2 million cows against only 600,000 people.)
I keep a late production H&R single shot myself, a .45-70. Made by Remington now I suppose, I have never seen another model like it. It has a somewhat short very thick barrel, iron sights, and a nice thick recoil pad. I dubbed it the bear patrol model, though I am not aware of it having any "official" name.
I suppose I had best see about a single action in .45 Colt for something more portable.
Similar to the elephant gun theory, a cow gun ought work quite well on dogs...coyotes...wolves...maybe even werewolves...and least make a Sasquatch think twice. Loaded with shot, the .45 Colt ought also do well on snakes.
Stinging insects are not really the purview of guns. I have a flamethrower for those.
