THE DECISION
The rock I was sitting on was hard and uncomfortable, but I was too tired to find a better seat. Below me lay a young kudu bull that a client had shot too far back two hours and three valleys ago. I looked at the old .30-06 resting against a bush next to me. I needed a new rifle – not a hunting rifle but a rifle for shooting wounded kudu (this one was the sixth for the season), a rifle in a calibre that shot flat and hit hard. A .300 Winchester Magnum was what I needed, I decided.
A WHAT?
“A Howa,” my brother said. “It is a Japanese-made rifle. They manufacture Weatherby’s Vanguard line.” My brother, who owned a gunshop, had been tasked with finding me a synthetic-stocked Remington in .300 Winchester Magnum. Now he was trying to