Jase

Welcome to the NitroExpress.com fourms. You will find loads of discussions on hunting internationally here but also importantly in Australia as well. Just start them if you have anything to ask or discuss.

I like your suggestion of buying a .30-06. I purchased my .30-06 as a "world" hunting rifle. Instead of going for a .270 or .243 or other medium calibre (for Australia), I wanted something I could hunt pigs and goats with, deer including sambar in thick forest, hunt New Zealand with, African plains game, and not to mention North America. Ambitious

. Some I have done

. Others yet to come.

I do like slightly more punch for African plains game now (I'm not eating them so I want them to drop just a little quicker) but the .30-06 killed a eland with a single shot well (plus an unneeded finisher to speed it along).

Using the same rifle on ferals will give you great practice when one day to sight in on a chevron on "spots" with a trusty and well known rifle.