High-end bolt-guns, if they are better-designed and are built from better materials, and especially if they are really and truly built to function better (rather than just look pretty), are certainly worth the money, and will certainly do more things better than the low-end stuff does. Rifles are like anything else in that you generally get what you pay for, pure and simple. That's why the top makers of user-type custom rifles are typically backlogged with more work than they can handle: Their clients are typically very experienced hunters and riflemen, and they can't be bamboozled by cosmetics and low price. Quite simply, they want pure, unadulterated preformance and are willing to pay for it.

Afican hunts are expensive anyway (if you can afford the safari, you can afford a top rifle) and can be risky, plus a good rifle can last for many safaris, so the best plan is to come up with the best ordinace you can possibly put together. I don't believe is reverse-economy, and I know of at least two people who have had serious problems on dangerous game hunts (one hospitalized for 6 months!) because they were too improvident to so much as get the stock factory rifles they were hunting with properly tuned by a good riflesmith.

Certain things transend expedience and go beyond price..........

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