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You guys are great, thank you.

Ya, the 30-06 and I get along real well. And I do shoot a lot, pretty much weekly, all year. Love going up to the gun club & ringing steel with my hunting rifles. Such a hoot. We've got steel at 300, 450, 500 & 600 yards. I haven't pushed the 30-06 rifle beyond 450 yet, but shoot the farther targets with target rifles.

Standing at 300 yds with the 30-06 a couple of years ago:
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Prone practice from my hunting pack. Have shot a few critters while resting that rifle on that pack:
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Am thinking that I'll set up a second scope, already zeroed, and ready to get popped onto the rifle, just in case.

The 30-06 has been great on game here, I figured that you hunters who have experienced Africa would tell me it was fine for over there too. Thanks for the confirmation. Mostly I hunt mule deer, and spice it up with pronghorn, black bear or elk now and then, all spot and stalk.

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Although I myself have no personal experience with African game, a guy I used to work with went to South Africa a few years back. He didn't take any of his rifles. He rented one from the outfitter. He used a Blaser 30/06 with plain Jane green box 165 grain Remington Corelokt ammo. He's a very good shot and shot 15 animals with 17 shots (no misses) including a 1200-1400 pound Eland with one shot. I think he shot his Zebra twice, and an Impala twice.

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I would take the 06. NO REASON for a 375 for Plains Game. Also I would not even think about going to Namibia without shooting a Hartman Mt. Zebra!!!

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I think you are more than good to go. Just remember to post pics of your trip.

Find out what your PH uses for shooting sticks also. Then use them in your practice sessions. Whether it be sticks, bog pod, primos trigger stick etc.


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that old 30-06 is just hard to beat ammo is easy to find all over the world,06`s are accurate,plenty power at longer ranges ,the most important thing is good scope mounts , good brand scope ,maybe bed the rifle if its wood but just use a 30-06.

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You are more than ready with that rifle/cartridge combo. Don't know many folks who've shot much past 200 yards over there. I do have one kill at 352 yards, with a 375 H&H, whose ballistics are almost identical to the 06...


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I think you are more than good to go. Just remember to post pics of your trip.

Find out what your PH uses for shooting sticks also. Then use them in your practice sessions. Whether it be sticks, bog pod, primos trigger stick etc.

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Really can not go wrong with either of those two plus a good “handful” of others. I took a Blaser R92 with both those two barrels — the ‘06 and the 375 — to do the plains game. I started with the 375 and my 270-gr TSX handload, had a ball with it, and never did switch to the ‘06 for which I had a 168-gr TSX hand-load and which was my intention.. Both are great.

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Good idea on the second scope. My sons Leupold went south on the first trip...was on his .325. Ended up using my 8x57 for the remainder of our trip. We did take an extra after that,,,but didn`t use it...thank goodness.
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Certainly take a spare scope, I do not see irons on your 30-06.


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On African plains game hunts I've used two 7mm Rem mags, a .375 RUM, and a .300 Weatherby. All worked great.

On my first trip to South Africa, I took a 7mm RM shooting 140 grain Ballistic tip bullets. It easily made one shot kills on all of the animals that the OP listed, plus a few more.

I took my .375 RUM shooting 300 grain TSX bullets and a different 7mm RM shooting 160 grain Accubonds on my second trip. I used the .375 RUM for buffalo and bushbuck in Zimbabwe, and both rifles for PG on farms in South Africa's Free State and Kwa-Zulu Natal. One of my PH's in KZN, who also had a 7 mm RM, was continually impressed with the internal damage that the 160 grain Accubonds did on the animals that I shot with them.

My third African hunt was to the Eastern Cape of South Africa just for plains game. I hunted 5 different farms or conservancies on that trip, shooting my .375 RUM and 270 grain TSX bullets. This combination was more than adequate for some little critters like a Jackal, a couple of Steenboks, and a Vaal Rhebok, and it also had no difficulty making a one shot kill on a Gemsbok at 348 yards, which is the longest shot that I've ever killed an animal at.
I did borrow a .308 Win shooting FMJ bullets from one of the outfitters for my Cape Grysbok.

I took my .300 Weatherby shooting 168 grain TSX bullets on my fourth African hunt that was in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. This combination worked great on a variety of PG from Klipspringer to Sable. I also loaded some 150 grain FMJ bullets for some smaller animals that I wanted, and I borrowed a .22 LR from my PH for a Caracal.

My last two trips to Africa were to Mozambique, and for both trips I took my .300 Weatherby shooting 168 grain TTSX bullets.


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I would only change to 180 Partitions. Not because I think they will be better per se, only because I’ve always thought about getting an -06 and shooting them. Just seems right! But a 165 Partition or a 168 TTSX would still have me smiling.

FWIW, I’ve shot one (don’t laugh..) Gemsbok with a 160 mono and it died right quick.

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Another vote for the '06 and Partitions...I have killed everything on your list with a .30-06...and for that matter Ive killed everything on your list with a 7x57 as well.

The '06 will not let you down!


Your constant practice shooting is excellent, your idea of packing a spare scope is excellent. I dont know what you are used to, but in the bush ( Namibia...been 6 times...) you need a 100 yard zero.....I repeat, 100 yards.


Told one tyro that and he insisted on having his .300 RUM 3 inches high at 200....it cost him a $1600 trophy fee on a poorly shot waterbuck...

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Yeah, a hundred yard zero. Typical flat brushy view straight ahead in most areas; so much so that where there was a tree of sufficient stature, the PH climbed it for a view down into the pockets ahead for game.

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I disagree on the zero. Use what you use here. Don't change just for Africa. Know your rifle and load and you will not have any issues.


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Pretty universally brushy and flat. My longest shot, a greater kudu was probably about 175 yards while the closest of the bunch was a warthog at about thirty. I see no advantage myself of long zero when one can almost always get fairly close, sometimes very close — we were within 15 yards of a couple of eland as big as a barn door and I couldn't see more than a square foot of hide — still with no shot.

The only place where I could regularly see to any distance was up north on the Etosha salt pan.

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Use the trip as an excuse to get a "tweener" 9,3X62. wink 250gr AccuBonds would be your friend.

(and take the '06 also)


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I've been to Namibia several times now myself. I agree with Ingwe......100 yd zero is perfect.


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Will just add that one of my good friends used the 100-yard zero on his one safari, on a ranch in Namibia where both Ingwe and I have hunted. He was using a .30-06 with, as I recall, 180 Partitions--but one of his opportunities was at 300 yards. This can happen even in flat thornveld, and because he assumed no shot would even be as long as 200 yards, had no idea where to hold. (And neither did his PH, because believe it or not, many PH's are not all that sophisticated about rifles.)

Everything turned out all right, but I would advise whatever sight-in distance you're used to here. Which means not assuming anythingabout the distances you might shoot, or anything else. It is YOUR hunt, not anybody else's--including the PH. Have run into a number of PH's who assume they can "judge" the range better than a laser rangefinder.


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Well, for instance, a 180-gr Nosler Part from a 30/06 at 2800 fps zeroed at 100 yd, is about a 3.5” down at 200 — no problem at all — and about -13” at 300. That’s “a foot” hold-over at three hundred, if need be; not undoable at all with that rare long shot. But of course, a guy has to shoot at home, know that and be prepared for it.

On the other hand it’s easy to shoot too high on a gemsbok the way it is due to those long spinous processes without thinking “remember, hold a little low now” because of that 3” high midrange POI.

Anyway, more than one way to get it done. Have a great time!

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