ORIGINAL: crimedog
Sitting here on a Sunday morning and dreaming, lets say you were taking a trip to hunt whatever you wanted Cape Buf, Crocs, Elephant, Hippo, Kudo, etc. what gun or guns would you take and hey while I'm dreaming what loads would you work up or buy and what would you call accurate enough knowing your shots will mostly be offhand and with big bores?
For the game on your list, I would use my .416 Rigby with Barnes TSX 400-grain bullets for lion, and Barnes banded solids for elephant, Cape Buffalo and hippo. I'd use a 7X57mm,.280 Remington, or 7mm Rem. Mag. with 175-grain Nosler Partition bullets for leopard and allnon-dangerous game. Only 2 rifles needed...... rifles would be CRF bolt-actions or Ruger No. 1 single shots..... I don't think Remington makes a .416 Rigby. They make a .416 Remington, but they don't make an action big enough for the Rigby cartridge.....