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We are in the Adelaide Hills area.

I've used the .318 WR on a bunch of stuff. It's a magnificent choice for large plains game! Those 250-grain Woodleigh softs penetrate like crazy and hold together. I have no doubt that the .318 would kill a buffalo nicely, and if pushed, I would use a .318 on an undisturbed buffalo, but there...

The DGX is just about as hard as the DGS. Have a look at the Hornady website. They are indeed steel-jacketed "softs". I would not shoot them in any vintage rifle.

The quality of the current production Bertram brass in .450 NE is excellent. In fact, I would rate them as better as current Hornady .450 NE cases. The latest batch of Hornady cases I used were too thick towards the base of the case and tended to stick inside sizing dies. The Bertram...

Screw-grip Webley with an additional crossbolt. They wanted to make sure it stayed shut when it had to! Nice rifle, by the way.

It's a non-issue. They shoot just fine with 500-grain bullets and a bit of load tweaking. My rifle shoots lights-out with 480's but I've shot enough 500-grainers out of it as well. If I had to shoot 500-grain bullets in future, no problem.

They are one and the same.

I deliberately chose the .450 NE. It does the same things that the .470 does but with better sectional density and it burns less powder. Heym also built mine on a .450/400 frame, so it handles like a dream and still weighs enough to shoot comfortably (10,5 pounds with 26-inch barrels). Graeme...

I have an 89B in .450 NE. It was regulated with Hornady DGX factory ammo. I have no trouble whatsoever getting it to shoot perfectly well with 2209 powder, Bertram brass and Woodleigh 480-grain softs and Hydros. I live in Australia as well, by the way.

Thanks for the answers! It's a WW Greener, and except for the peep, it is in great shape. It weighs just over 7 lbs empty with a 24-inch barrel with Metford rifling. It is cased up with some of the original accessories. It handles like a good English rifle should. Standard military-surplus M98...

I recently acquired a very nice vintage .318 WR and it came fitted with the peep sight in the attached photograph as well as the original express-type sights. I have been searching the net far and wide to find out who made the peep, but no luck thus far. I have no idea what the "A" may...

Dzombo in South Africa made a 550-grain solid in .458. I'm not sure if they are available in the US, though.

You will not be hunting in Kruger itself but in one of the privately-owned reserves bordering and open to the park to allow animals to roam around freely. Most of those reserves actually derives 80% plus of their income from hunting so the touristy bits are confined to certain areas and the...

I had a V-spring as well as a cocking dog break on a vintage best Westley Richards 12-bore boxlock ejector on two separate occasions. As I lived in South Africa at the time, it was a real pain to set right again. The modern trend seems to be in favour of coil springs.