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Grayghost, the selling of hides sounds good. I am sure I will not have them all mounted. That is a good idea.
I have loaded 139 gr. Hornady Interlock BTSP bullets for the smaller game up to kudu with the 280. I was reading the latest issue of Guns and Ammo magazine and Craig Boddington had an interesting article on what caliber guns to take to Africa. He said he has taken as light as .22 Hornet for the real small stuff.He said that on his most recent African hunt in Namibia he took 2 rifles, a light one and a heavy one. The light one was a 7X57 with 139gr. Hornady Interbond bullets with which he took kudu and hartebeest. He used the heavier 338 win mag. on zebra and widlebeest which he considered much tougher. He felt that the lighter gun should be stout enough to take the bigger plainsgame in a pinch since sometimes you stalk one species and end up with a different species and some shots required longer distances than the heavier bullets would normally be used for due to the rainbow trajectory. That article made up my mind to take the 280 with my 338-06. I loaded 200gr. Hornady interlock SP and 250gr. CT goldbond molys for the 338-06. The velocities are 2500 fps and 2900 fps respectively.
Bob
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