Dear Forum , I have recently acquired a .300 H&H and would value the opinions of any memebers that have experience with the .300 H&H and RWS Cone Point projectiles & Norma Vulcan projectiles.
regards
Von Dutch
Hello Von Dutch,
Welcome to the best forum on earth.
Unfortunately, I have no experience with RWS and Norma ammunition.
By reputation, something called the "Torpedo Bullet" or "TUG" bullet, (German made by RWS?) is reportedly very effective on game, appropriate to whatever caliber and bullet weight you are using, when a soft point is called for.
In regards to the .300 H&H, as others here have already said, it is a very fine hunting cartridge.
Over my lifetime, I have owned Three of them, Two were older Remington Model 721 and One was built for me by an excellent Gunsmith (Dave Cabboth), on a 1950's vintage FN Mauser '98 action.
The Mauser I took to Africa, (Namibia) for my first Safari, about 13 or 14 years ago, with 180 grain Nosler Partition bullets, at a little over 2800 feet per second.
This Mauser was fitted with a 4x Zeiss scope, containing standard straight crosswires, mounted in low rings.
This combination proved extremely effective on 12 animals, from somewhat larger ones such as, Burchell's Zebra and Common Kudu, down to smaller ones such as, springbok and steenbok.
The ranges included very short range (about 40 or 50 paces), clear out to over 400 metres (according to the PH's laser range finder).
The .300 H&H and 180 grain pointed bullet, leaving the muzzle at about 2800+ fps, is my favorite caliber when hunting deer/antelope/zebra/swine and such, when the land / foliage is more open, as is the case in much of Namibia (and many parts of Alaska, where I live.)
With it I have taken animals on two continents and would happily also take it to Hawaii as well, where I have a couple of times, hunted sheep and goat.
Hopefully, a Hawaiian boar hunt, will be in my future there one day.
However, Hawaii gun laws are simply ridiculous and the abundance of thieves preying upon Tourists there is out of control so, I just rent a rifle from the Guide each time.
You cannot go wrong with the .300 H&H, provided you choose the right bullet for it, according to the types of animals sought and the conditions you plan to hunt in.
My personal feelings are that, it is the very best of the .300 Magnums, in that it has a long, gradually sloping shoulder, resulting in very slick feeding/extraction, also a bit less recoil than most of the newer-faster .30 Magnums, and rifles in the original H&H version just seem to always be exceptionally accurate, for some unknown reason.
Among a select few other "naturally accurate" cartridges, the .222 Remington caliber seems to enjoy this same difficult to explain consistent exceptional accuracy - no matter how cheap the rifle was to purchase in the first place - phenomenon.
At any rate, you have bought a rifle, chambered in one of the very best hunting calibers ever conceived, no doubt about that.
Cheers,
Velo Dog.