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I would recommend the 175 grain North Fork semi-spitzer.

Thanks for the welcome! I used the Nosler ammo with 168 grain etips. I've also had great luck with the Federal Trophy Copper, which are supposedly etips with grooves. My rifle shot them and 180 grain partitions well. I was leaning to the partitions but the outfitter really likes Monos. I'm sure either would have been fine. I was suprised that I didn't get many exits. I just attributed it to the larger animals and shot angles. Nothing went far or needed more than one shot.

My choice would be the 150 gr Barnes Triple Shock

I wouldn't think them to be very popular there, heavy 175 gr partitions and a-frames or even 160 gr TSX/TTSX's would be next to impossible for me not to use there.

175 NPTs sure worked for me out of a 7x57

You bet, I use those in my 7x57 and the few old style 175 speer gs's I have left, they plow some critter buddy.

Partitions are hard to beat overall, are the standard others are compared to.

Have to agree with ingwe (scary that) and gunner.

175 NPT's in 7RM would be tough to beat.

Mono's seem to be coming on, getting more popular. Could be an interesting option.

DF

I used 150 E-Tips at 3,000 fps in my 7mm RM to take Warthog, Red/Blue/Black Beests, Zebra and Eland on my last safari.

The key, as always, is to hit them right. I highly recommend spending as much practice time as you can shooting off the sticks.

I'd try those, as well as the 160 Accubond, and then use whatever shot the best out of your rifle.

Since my 7mm Weatherby Magnum shoots 160 grain TSXs very well, I would use those. Lots of good recommendations above.

You bet DF, in my case, were I over there to specifically hunt Kudu and Bushbuck like the OP, and a monster of an Eland, Waterbuck, or Sable showed up, I'd be damn sure to have enough bullet for that once in a lifetime trophy that presented itself, regardless if they were on my original 'take list' or not.

Eland and sable are hardly going to be "Hey,there's one take it!" Those two are expensive enough to be safaris just for one or both with some goodies thrown in.

If I saw an exceptional one I'd have the PH add it to my trophy fee list in a heartbeat, as a matter of fact, and smaller I know, but I took two extra animals that way while tracking Kudu on my hunt.

My PH Kobus through his binocular: That is a very big ram!

Me whispering: you talking about that chihuahua with black licorice sticks on his head?

PH: Yes Yes, that's a record book ram, he's a machine!!!!!

Me: BOOM!

My Steenbok and Duiker were very large targets of opportunity that I hadn't planned on taking.

I did too and I'm paying for it now. Itchy trigger fingers cost money.

Except my extra's were two trophies and two culls.

I was offered a sable bull at a reduced price,which,was still more than I can afford at that time. All it did was give me the excuse to go back for eland and now sable (as if I need an excuse to go back!)

I hear ya Elk, my whole thought process on animals, even the expensive ones, if a truly fine specimen shows up, I gotta take it, don't believe I could go back over for them any more reasonably, price wise.

I was gonna go back this fall, now a monster business venture has reared it's ugly head and I have to sit pat for awhile and see what happens.

Gunner,my thought process is simple,I want to hunt,so given that I want to hunt the old bulls i.e. the over-the-hill bulls,not interested in trophy animals anymore.

But,that's just me.

I understand, a lot to be said for an old beat up worn out roguey dagga boy bull, they're kinda like us.

True.

My experience with those 7mm 160 ABS tells me that if you put the bullet in the right spot African plains game dies just as quick as anything else. If put in the "wrong" spot, you get a chance to see just how amazing those native trackers are.

The 156gr Norma Oryx worked really well for my wife and I(out of a 7-08). From Springbok to Gemsbok, and any critters in between.

Jeff