I've used a Beretta Sable 9.3x74 as the light rifle on three trips to Africa -- two to Zimbabwe and one to CAR -- and will take it back in April to CAR. It knocks over everything from Impala up to Zebra, Western Roan and Hartebeest. The thing is deadly out to 150 yards or so -- almost everything shot with it has been a one-shot kill. And it is a great deer gun for the New England woods.

It is not really a dangerous game round, though. It will do in a pinch with solids, but for buffalo I use a .500/.450, which the tracker carries if we're hunting plains game.

Peter Martin