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Old 08-03-2006, 04:18 PM
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If you take two rifles, you asked about a backup, I would take as a second rifle, a 30-06 loaded with a good bullet about 165-168 grains. The 06 is reccomended by most PHs as a good plains game rifle.

I took one rifle and two shotguns on my Africa wing shooting safari. The rifle was a 300 WSM.
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