Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Africa Serious question for plains game, 338 Fed, 338/06, and 9.3s

Amen to what Ray said.

No African plains game is as heavy as an elk or harder to kill except possibly eland and giraffe. There is no reason to use anything larger than a .300 magnum with 180 grain Nosler Partitions. But if something bigger floats your boat, so be it. You will be shooting it because you want to, not because you need to.

Personally if I felt the need for a bigger round--if I were hunting buff as well as plains game, for instance--I would go all the way to the .375 H&H.

My particular .375 H&H shoots sub-MOA with several different bullets and seems to kick less harshly than my (lighter weight) .300 Weatherby.