If someone wanted one good versatile hunting rifle as opposed to multiples what chambering or cartridge would you suggest.

Where I’m saying hunting rifle I’m thinking hunting deer and pigs in Australia, Plains game in Africa, Deer in the UK or Elk or whitetail in the US or something in Europe. Generally any huntable species excluding varmints and dangerous game or rifles configured to those purposes.

The context is that the .308 common so if you wanted a nice scoped rifle in some other...

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this was asked in an after thought in another post recently and my knee jerk reaction was to vote for the 404 Jeffery. however I just sat down with my reloading manuals and took a look at both cartridges. it would seem at least according to the info I have that the 404 Jeffery and the 416 Rigby are nearly ballistic twins which a slight edge going to the Rigby due to the smaller diameter bullet. now according to my books they both push a 400gr bullet at around 2300 fps give or take 100fps...

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Super late notice but hell it’s worth a shot…. I’m going to Paris in exactly one months time as an extended family trip. It’s me and my wife’s second time to Paris but everyone else’s first time, we’re not too worried on doing all the sights in Paris again as we’ve done a lot of them before so therefore I should have a spare day or two without any plans.

Question I am asking is: Are there any places or outfitters close enough to Paris that you can hunt as a day trip? I’m not too particular...

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Looking for a couple of pounds.

The @ MATTANJA HUNTING SAFARIS 2026 group hunt for AH members to focus on dangerous game is concluded. Everyone is home safely having left a lot of trophies in the salt. Dieter and I felt like it was very successful and wanted to create this hunt report to share that success with you. We also wanted to share some thoughts about what inspired this idea. I will also be releasing the dates for next year’s AH group hunt for DG at the end of this report.

Several sponsors have offered group...

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