A friend (another gun writer) has a wife who didn't hunt for many years, but eventually decided she wanted to. He started her off with a rimfire, as I recall, but soon got her shooting a .243 Winchester. She did very well, but before the next deer season in their home state, he managed to take her on a plains game safari in South Africa. She used the .243 with 85-grain Nosler Partitions, and killed an impala, gemsbok and blue wildebeest, all with one shot each. Gemsbok and blue wildebeest are supposed to be among the toughest of all the plains game.
