[Hi Ball]

Ruddyduck.........I like the idea of the 2 rifle battery the best!

If you use your 7mm mag I would suggest the premium 160 grain bullets or the larger 175 grainers. African game animals are tuffer than ours in the US by far.

The .458 Win mag will be much easier to find ammo for if something should happen to yours (big possibility) and the last thing you want is a rifle you can't get ammo for in Africa. The .416 Rigby is NOT that easy to come by and twice as expensive as the .458 Win mag ammo.

My next hunt will have me carrying a .375-Weatherby and a .475 caliber big bore for buff. If something happens, I still have enough gun to hunt the cape buff and still go after some plains game as well.

I like calibers that overlap each other to a certain degree! I once used a .338 mag (225 grainers TBBC bullets) as my small gun and a .416 Rem mag as one for taking bigger game. I used the .338 mag on Impala, gemsbok, red hartabeast, black wildebeast etc. The .416 pushed 325 grainers down the barrel towards the Wildebeast, Kudu, Eland etc.