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Especially when there are beautiful rifles that you cannot pass up on!
Take the 404, you can use it on anything you want.
A three gun battery is a wonderful thing - and unfortunately now almost two generations too late. That doesn't mean they aren't wonderful things to own. But it is a rare safari which would justify a three caliber investment. Scope the 9.3 0r the .404 and you can take anything on the continent. Were I going to let's say Tanzania for a full bag expedition, I would bring a heavy medium (in my case, a .500/.450 or .404) and a PG rifle with a bit of reach. A third wouldn't be a bad idea for a back-up - probably a .375 r0 9.3 so it could back up either the DG or PG rifle - which of course means I could bring it and forget the other two. For a PG hunt in the RSA or Namibia, a well scoped .30 to .375 or 7mm - 9.3mm pretty much fills the bill. I am beginning to think most of us were born a century too late.
My three gun safari with what I own would be my Winchester super grade 30-06, Winchester Safari 375 H&H, and either my Heym 88 in 450/400 or Searcy 470 NE. That's the best I could do. No Westley Richards, Purdy's, or Holland & Holland in my group lol.
A three gun battery is a wonderful thing - and unfortunately now almost two generations too late. That doesn't mean they aren't wonderful things to own. But it is a rare safari which would justify a three caliber investment. Scope the 9.3 0r the .404 and you can take anything on the continent. Were I going to let's say Tanzania for a full bag expedition, I would bring a heavy medium (in my case, a .500/.450 or .404) and a PG rifle with a bit of reach. A third wouldn't be a bad idea for a back-up - probably a .375 r0 9.3 so it could back up either the DG or PG rifle - which of course means I could bring it and forget the other two. For a PG hunt in the RSA or Namibia, a well scoped .30 to .375 or 7mm - 9.3mm pretty much fills the bill. I am beginning to think most of us were born a century too late.
I would be deeply honoured to know that this 404 has been to Africa and taken the game it was built to take.
As an aside my 7x57 that was to be its light rifle hunting mate is very well served with the 160gn Woodleigh PP bullet over ADI 2209 (H4350) for 2700fps.
Am going to be watching for the day the safari starts.....................
It is definetly planned VonGruff, unfortunately it will take a while to save the funds, for the first trip the whole family are going. Planning on 2018, but only plains game for that trip. I had planned on taking the 7x57 and 9.3 as the 9.3 came from a farming family in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. But now I have the .404 it might get the nod. It would be very effective on kudu and wildebeast!!
try come hunt Africa sooner , rather than later !
Definitely, you'll never regret going earlier but you can easily spend the rest of your life wishing you had.try come hunt Africa sooner , rather than later !
You know, I've had a standing invitation to come hunt in NZ for about a decade but never could justify the trip. Now that I'm going to SA hopefully at least once a year or every other year in the future for as long as I physically can I'm considering doing both in one trip since it's just not all that far from the RSA to NZ.I would be there tomorrow if I could afford it, the Hartzview Buffalo offer is pretty tempting! Unfortunately earning $NZ and having to pay in $US makes quite a difference, our dollar as at 84c US last year, it is now 62cUS. I need to save NZ$30,000 for a 7 day family hunt, NZ$10,000 will be airfares alone.