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countryboy
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Posted: 20 May 2008 10:41 PM |
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| wanting to go on an african safari later on for plains game cape buffalo and leopard. what would yall consider the best 2 rifle combos for each me and my fiance? we will have a .257 stw, 6.5 stw, 7mm stw, 7x57, .300 h@h, 8mm rem mag., .30 souper, .257 roberts, .358 sta, .366 dgw, .280 ack imp., 6mm/300 h@h , .25/.284. And were would yall recomend going thru as far as service and location both
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Posted: 22 May 2008 02:18 AM |
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| help on african safari?
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Blackhat
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Posted: 3 July 2008 01:18 PM |
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Go to the Hunting Africa topic on the home page.
A friend of mine goes to Africa. He uses a 500 Nitro and 458 Lott for the bad stuff, and a 375 H&H or a 338 WinMag for most else. He has told me numerous times that if he could have only one rifle to hunt anything on earth, it would be a 375 H&H. Hope this helps!
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miestro_jerry
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Posted: 6 July 2008 04:45 AM |
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I have never been hunting in Africa, but have been to Tanzania and South Africa. The minimum I would take is the 375 H&H, then you need a really heavy duty rifle for a back up, like a 600 Nitro Express. I hear a charging Rhino may be a hard thing to stop if you annoy him.
Up the road from me is J.D. Jones and he builds some really great Hand cannons that people claim they have taken major animals in Africa with, J.D. is a very successful hunter!
http://www.sskindustries.com/ssk.htm
But what ever you take practice a bunch with them before you leave for Africa. So you don't have any surprises.
Jerry
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