Me a superhero??? Cripes I'd better get my cape pressed,don't confuse my making a comment about ANYONE staying within their comfort range and my choices ( I believe you used the crass terms NUTS,did you not?) to extend my comfort zone to keep the D in DG for ME.
Was a time when I was younger that the 45-70 was indeed legal for George. Also you suggest we allow Zim., Namibia,Tanz to set the min. for George....well I hate to burst your bubble but each says archery gear is legal!
My "bringing it up on the 3 or 4 forums" is exactly what forums are intended for. Not everyone needs to feel they must be smoking Cubans,drinking Gin & Tonic or high dollar Scotch, and toteing a $30,000 DBL gun to be a true African safari treker. Truth be told I can well afford these pleasures and have indulged in them myself, but being "Continental" I have other interests.
Your inexperience is shown well, I've read all the "old Africa" works as well. While admireing the before mentioned living hunters I do not elevate them to icons as apparently you have. They are men, an only men, that I'd imagine would be the very first to tell you that themselves. Fifty is sadly more than a handful of years behind me now. BUT nothing bodes your age and inexperience quite as well as your PS comment....for when afield one is not at the local drive by zoo watching some tame lioness flick flies off her muzzle thru the rolled up auto window. Be you carrying a camera,bow or Searcy. Old George doesn't need an excuse to push out his chin and make a dash at you. He is as apt to take offense at being disturbed from his tail switching noon time siesta by the faint aroma of a shutterbug as a .375 smacking into his shoulder.
I'm off to Namibia on my next trip which is too long in coming. Followed by another booked already to Tanz to be one of the first modernday hunters there to kill a buff with archery gear...it's legal there now!
BTW I hunt ducks & geese in Tx,ND,Sask, AK, and Pa with a 20 ga....bet you're one of the 12ga. 3 1/2" crowd aren't you?