Need help choosing between 2 calibers

[Mark Biggerstaff]

I’m of the old school. 300 win mag loaded with 200gr Aframes or Partitions. Take anything you shoot at.

 

[hoytcanon]

See post 58. Newer calibers all run this risk.

If you get there and the 80 rounds of ammo that you custom loaded and tested and brought with you disappear, you borrow/rent a rifle from the outfitter... shit happens, you don't have to dumb down your approach to cover a "what if" scenario. This isn't a life or death scenario... most gun nutters want to hunt with their own rifle, but we also want to hunt with our own ammo that we spent hours and $$$ developing and testing. If that can't happen you make do. I have traveled to hunt a heck of alot over the past half century and have never lost ammo, I'm not going to start sweating it now. Build and shoot what you like.

 

[Beck]

.300 Weatherby or .300 Win - Ammo availability is much better in Africa in case your ammo is lost in transit

 

[Nevada Mike]

I think that a 300 and a 375 make a great safari battery. A 375 H&H will push a 270 gr. Game at 2800 fps, so you are point blank to about 300 yards with great retained energy. Unlikely that you will be shooting further than that. If need more range use the 300wm. Ammo for either not a problem in Africa (or most places in the free world).

 

[Ridge-runner86]

I went with a .300wm I was very familiar with. Handloaded Barnes bullets and shot a variety of plains game from 100-256 yards. Even took a zebra at 160. It served me well on my trip and it was a rifle I have total confidence with way beyond the 256 (furthest poke of the trip) . That being said a familiar rifle and confidence in my opinion is paramount. The right bullet in the right spot is key. All my animals went down close.