I find Amazon reveiws hard to trust sometimes.

First of all, I don't know what kind of taste the reveiwer has (which might be very different from my own). And as you pointed out, some of the negative things you read were that the cartridges mentioned were lacking the new "whizz-bang" ones. I personally don't see this as a downside, as I have no use for WSM or WSSM or whatever the new ultra short and fat calibres are named, and especially not in Africa!

Also, how do we know if the reveiwer actually knows anything about the topic? Maybe they've never even been to Africa? Or have very limited African hunting experiance for that sake. Maybe their opinions are mainly based on having read other books that don't give a genuine picture of hunting in Africa (Exaggerated stories and so on. I see 500grains mentions the name Capstick...

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Finally, I've noticed that some reviewers have what appear to be ulterior motives when writing their reviews. Especially regarding books that are not considered politically correct. Although this would rarely apply to hunting books.

So chances are that you might find more objective reviews elsewhere. Such as right here!

Erik