JPK let us get something straight right now, I couldn't care less if you, Will, 500 gr or anyone else as you stated,"looks at me with awe or respect".
you mention the need to be some sort of super hero to hunt with an "inadequate weapon" and why don't I use my 500 or my Searcy. 1st I choose to use my 45-70 and a bow 2nd those buff were killed in Zimbabawe not Namibia as you seem to enjoy refering to. 3rd I did not mention killing buff with my 458 Lott because that was not my point of reference in those posts on another forum, (FTR I have killed 19 of the species with several different weapons).4th you seem to have the attitude that only a "truely responsible,ethical hunter goes afield with what you deem "sufficent firepower" or else they are being babysat...may I offer this,some of the very finest hunters I know. In fact some of the finest hunters of all time carried NO WEAPON other than a camera into the field in search of DG with NO PH at their side at all! If legal I wouldn't use a PH to pursue DG either.
Go draw some blood of a free range Old George (your first) live the experience you've read about . Then repeat that 18 times over a few scores of years or so. Come back here and tell me you haven't the slightest urge to add a bit more excitement to the saga. Then an only then you have the right to judge me. A judgement BTW I could not care less the results of.
I repeat my dime I'll use what is legal and at my option. Your dime you call the shots. You wish to put those dimes up for me, by all means I will allow you to set the limitations. Heck! knocking dust off George's mud caked hide with a 460 Weatherby held some of my attention for many years too!