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No African big game hunts in my past, but one brown bear with 416 Tayor. I used a 350 grain Barnes X bullets at 2550 fps from 22 inch barrel. My 400 grain load was at 2150 fps. It was a boring hunt, one shot one bear at 210 yards. Neither my guide or any hunters in camp wanted to try an 8...

I had pretty similar results with a 22 inch Douglas barrel using 350 grain Barnes bullet, earlier model TSX? 2550 fps. One shot, one brown bear at 215 yards, behind right shoulder out left shoulder, rolled down hill, squared 9 ft 9 inches. Commercial Mauser action, sat in Cosmoline for 30...

I think TKO adds an element of minimum effectiveness to expanding bullets that fail to expand. I see minimally expanding pistol and rifle bullets being less dramatic in their effect than fully expanding examples of the same type bullets. I shot lots of deer with 180 grain .308 Win and the deer...

Convert them to 35 Whelen or 9.3x62mm? Should have read the rest of the suggestions. I converted a commercial Mauser 98 to 416 Taylor, so the sky is pretty much the limit. It took me many years before I tried the 30-06, it was just to much common place, efficient, effective, available. As...

The idea to me is finding a "anything I run into" rifle. I like three of the medium bores mentioned for this function, the 338 Win Mag, 9.3x62mm and .375 H&H. I would throw an American cartridge into the mix, the 35 Whelen. I've never hunted Africa but Alaska and parts of the western US have...

There are a number of newer cartridges that better the ballistics and terminal performance of the ancient 30-06! BARTFRNCS It shoots comfortably, shoots accurately and does the job from duiker all the way to eland and has a reasonable bullet weight range for the different situations that are...

I have lots of muscle memory invested in over/under shotguns. What are the dynamics of over/under rifle scopes and sight regulation? Would a double barrel set with 9.3x74 and 20 gauge be desirable? Lots more bird than buffalo not to mention skeet shot around middle Tennessee!