Small, Large and Larger-Than-Large. 8211; a smallbore may be all that is required for hunting thin-skinned antelope;. 8211; when hunting antelope, you may stumble onto an unsympathetic Cape buffalo.

In Search of The Colonel. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Shot his lion five times with a 30-06 and you heard where that got him. Even scarier real-life stories concerning inopportune meetings between big cats and small bullets are written every year in Africa. Perhaps the cartridge has been overlooked and underrated by the masses of hunters because its creation was so simple anybody could have done it.

A Promising CZ Goes To Finishing School. I somehow ended up with twins - two CZ 550 Magnums chambered in . The first order of business was to procure a high-grade blank of seasoned Oregon Black Walnut from Goby Walnut Products over in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.

If you live in a high-risk environment, practice a risky business, or just want to be better prepared than any Boy Scout, resign yourself to adding four or five pounds of metal to your daily wardrobe and dressing up like the real professionals do. If you are none of the above, you still might find something of interest in this fashion show. The fully outfitted professional carries three guns in three different categories at all times.

I wish all such rousing legends were this alive and this well. Ruger attempted to bring the . 404 back into the mainstream a few years ago but, by all accounts, screwed up the chamber specifications and soon canceled the project as complaints mounted.

Factory-fresh Ruger M77 Mark II and No. 1 Tropical plus a vintage Brno ZKK custom. Bill Ruger deserves considerable credit for his part in the revival of the great . 416 Rigby is probably the best magazine cartridge for big game ever offered. The 416 Rigby is chambered in plenty of new rifles today, including those made by John Rigby and Sons, which is now ensconced in California.

The four-five-oh Rigby Magnum, as the English say, was introduced in 1995, the year Tom Hanks won an Oscar for. A 480-grain bullet that chronographs at an honest 24.

A Little Beauty and A Little Beast. But wait till you get to the Krieghoff 9. Some rifles are, well, beautiful in a different way.

In the days when my sole armament was a Marlin 39A and every rabbit was as good as a rhinoceros, I believed almost everything I read. So when I decided that my all-time favorite fantasy of knocking down a charging Cape buffalo was still far enough in the distant future to be safe, I thought it was time to start getting ready for it. Test out a few theories old and new as well as a couple of my own.