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I'm just back from Zambia and while I took two rifles, I shot everything with the 375 and 270 grain A-Frames.

From 20 pound grysbok to 4500 pound hippo, everything took only one shot. The buff got an extra, un-needed second shot to keep him from following the herd.

This is actually about the third successful trip in a row where the 375 gets all my business! Sometimes I'm a slow learner!




Oh, and the leopard was dead under the bait, so apparently the 375 works on cats too!

Congrats on what sounds like a hell of a Safari.

Thanks! I ended up taking more game than originally intended and while it didn't break the bank, it definitely bruised it!

Now to figure out how to go back!

Starman; DocRocket,

Fwiw, I once saw (at WAFFEN BENNEWITZ in K-town) a SxS .303 British OVER a 16 gauge shotgun. = I "disremember" what the Germans call a combination gun with 2 rifled barrels over a single smoothbore.

The asst. manager said that the combination gun was custom-built for a MAJ of the Indian Army after WWI & traded in for another drilling by his grand-nephew about a week before I saw it in FEB 1972.
(SADLY, I could NOT afford to buy it on a LT's paltry salary. = BOO HOO.)

yours, satx