Back in the early 1970's, when I was embarking on an ill fated attempt at being a firearms dealer, I had the run of Kenya Bunduki in Nairobi's walk-in vault. I ended up coming away with a collection of largely shot out and abused African rifles, among them several in caliber .318 Westley Richards. I paid a pittance for them and sold them for not a lot more. I wish I had saved one or two of the better ones, but the ammunition question was an insurmountable problem at the time.

Several years later I encountered a person with a large collection of Kynoch bullets of various calibers, including .510", which I needed at the time, .410" which I later acquired a need for and a selection of both soft nose and solid bullets for the .318. I bought the whole lot and have gradually put the various calibers to good use.

Years later I had an FN action barreled in the caliber and returned to me in the white, so that I could decide whether to proceed further with it. I developed some loads and sighted it in, but so far have never used it on game, but who knows, maybe this is the year! It's a little too powerful for the local white tails, but I don't imagine they would complain.