In 2002 I took a .30-06 (and a Remington 700 at that) with a 3-9x scope and 180-grain Partition handloads to South Africa, just because I wanted to demonstrate what a plain-vanilla combination like that would do. It worked fine, of course, including dropping a big kudu at around 350 yards.
Of course, at the last minute a bullet company asked me to fiueld-test a new one, so I had to take another rifle--but a spare can come in handy on a long trip. This time it did, because a hunting partner's rifles never did show up in Johannesburg until a week after we headed dome. But the .30-06 worked fine on a bunch of animals throughout the two-week safari.
