Yes ammunition components and loaded ammo are a problem with rare cartridges.

But if you want something different you can't expect to run with the pack.

Woodleigh makes .330 calibre (.318) projectiles as do some African bullet manufacturers. At the worst I would try swaging some bullets down.

What I want for my .318 is the real classic English stocked Mauser .318 ie the slim short forend stock rifle setup for express sighs. But I probably will still mount a scope in QDs to make better use of it.

8mm. Woodleigh makes projectiles as again some African manufacturers. The softer bullets for the 8x57 would not be as big a problem as I would use these on feral game and similar, and a soft bullet is spectacular on these lighter game and kills extremely well. And cheaper. The fast light bullets also provide a good trajectory out to 350 metres or so. A .30-06 kills emphatically so a 8x68S will be even more effective.

I do like the range of bullets available in .338 too.

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I was in Vienna in 1989 on a holiday when living in London. I do not remember which woods they were. If I remember the right forest, it was close to the city, fenced and public. There were Hochsitz for the hunting season and on entering the forests gate, wildboar piglets fed right up to us and around us on a walking track and the sow also passed us. Not particularly wild but I generally don't like to get between a mother and its young. A couple of good boars fed in a grass field.

While we walked in the forest, a hunter musician played a horn with some stirring tunes and later we came across him walking hom and an Austrian couple dressed in fine hunting greens stopped to talk to him.

I believe there were also small fenced paddocks fo moufflon sheep and some fallow deer near the entrance.

Perhaps it was near a famous Hapsberg palace the name of which I am trying to remember.

Vienna was an enjoyable city to visit.