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OK. Well, a lot has happened since I originally posted. We haven't made it to Africa. The wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, she went through treatment and got it whipped, and then it came back in the lungs. Treatment again and currently she's symptom free but taking preventative drugs and...

I didn't notice any difference at all. I lost about 100 fps on the full power load and about 50 psi on the reduced load.

The reduced load I settled on is a 150 grain Nosler BT over 52 grains of IMR 4895, Norma brass and a CCI 250 primer. I had the barrel chopped to 22.5 inches and the velocity is right at 2600 now. The 180 grain Accubond load I first developed was over 68 grains of IMR 4350 but I'm experimenting...

I just built one on a Mark X Mauser as my "do it all" type of rifle. Of course, "all" in my case does not include dangerous game. I really like it. I've developed two loads for it. One is a reduced load that pushes a 150 gr Ballistic Tip at about 2650 fps and the other pushes a 180 gr...

Should I be concerned about the weather in Capetown in early July?

Thank you all for the helpful comments. It gives me a lot of info to take in and helps me start my research.

I'm beginning to plan a trip to Africa for next July and need some advice and guidance. It's my 25th wedding anniversary so what I would like to do is plan a trip that includes a few days of "touristy" type stuff and several days of PG hunting. Would like the total trip to be 10-14 days...

Nobody in town carries much in the way of large caliber rifles, but there's an old-style hardware/gun store called Curry Thomas Hardware that has lots of African game mounts in the store and occasionally a few interesting used guns on the rack. It's interesting simply because you don't see many...