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Sir Bob's blog latest installment

http://www.bigbores.ca/

has some great reading regarding advantages of the .458 WM over lesser cartridges,
meaning every other cartridge in the world.
Sprinkled with some interesting load data too, from 250-grainer to 600-grainer.
Light bulbs switched on in my head while I was reading that.
His data is now my data.

This is not to say that all other calibers are useless.
They are just not as useful as the .458 WM.
Even Selous liked a 6.5mm aka .256 or .264, all of which are pretty much same-same.
But he always kept some sort of .45/.46 bore soon as he gave up the 4-bore for nervous condition reasons.



Fanciful imitations of Selous' final .256 Mannlicher and 450 NE combo:









The 404-g/.458-cal Shock Hammer Varmint bullet (or Sheep Hippo Varmint bullet)
makes the two rifle battery obsolete.
Now you only need one rifle.
The Selous Combo might now become a combo of one rifle (.458 WM) and two bullets: 404g/.458 SHV and whatever solid will do the job.