Imagine you have 80 days to circumvent the globe just like Phileas Fogg and Jules Verne's wonderful book around the world in 80 days.

But instead of racing against time and a bet that holds your entire and considerable fortune, you're hunting.

In fact, you can hunt anything on the earth, from leopard to elephant in Africa, from tar to red stag in New Zealand and

daw sheep and moose in grizzly in Alaska, from Roebuck to Eurasian brown bears on the

continent, and of course all the white tails in mule deer and elk and antelope and yes, and

big horn sheep and ibex and Marco Polo sheep.

Here's the catch.

You can only use one rifle the entire time. What cartridge will you choose?

Friends, for the most part, hunters around the world tend to agree that the 375 H&H Magnum is the single most versatile

cartridge for across the spectrum hunting. It's been used on plenty of small-bodied deer

size game and it's taken a plethora of elephants.

It's got enough velocity to be useful out to 400 yards in the hands of a good rifleman,

and enough authority to be really good on dangerous game from

grizzly and brown bear to back in the day tiger and of course Cape Buffalo and the

like it is considered light for elephant, but adequate.

A few other cartridges challenge its claim for supremacy, including medium-bored cartridges like the 9.3 by

62 and the 35 whalen, but in all candor they fall

short. Bigger cartridges such as the 404 Jeffrey and the various 416 magnums are actually better for dangerous game up for much harder and must be built in a rifle that's in no way suitable for, say, wild sheep or

rough country el cunning.

There's just one cartridge that is the

legendary old 375 H&H for a globe trotting supremacy

and that is the 375 Ruger.

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