Thread: What is .357 Magnum good for?

Understand this is an old thread. Just came across it searching for something else.
You research calibers against kills / loads / range / responsible shooting etc in different countries and you come up with dozens of different answers. Situation at the time is the main key. Like when i used to walk out my house in rural France with a shotgun loaded with no4's looking for rabbit or fox and i'd end up seeing boar or a deer so next time id take my .222 ( which is an excellent deer rifle caliber up to 100 meters) and all I would see is rabbits at 50 mtrs. ye I could of shot them but then there would be nothing left to eat. A 357 mag in a rifle will easily take down a still pig at 75 mtrs with no hesitation, along with deer at that range. I know a high number of people like to go OTT on caliber. In the USA I read a lot of people use 357 mag rifles for black bear so why not anything smaller. even a 22LR will put a pig down with the right placement.