For the 1920s-1930s, a simple battery:



8x60S in a Type A Oberndorf Mauser sporter.

9.3x62 in a Type A Oberndorf Mauser sporter.

.470 Nitro Express in either a Jeffery or Westley Richards double rifle.



Good, basic working guns.



-Bob F.

Wasn't that long ago...Hell I was here!!

I'd use the same stuff I use today....A 470, a 404 Jefferys and a Springfield 30-06...

Other great options would be the 375 H&H, 9.3x62,and Springfield 30-06

Can't get away from that 06, it just belongs.

I'd have to use custom British double rifles and Farquharson-based single-shots as there were no left-hand actions built at the time, and a Sedgely conversion doesn't interest me now (and it wouldn't have done so then).

A .470NE for the big stuff (elephant, rhino, hippo, buff), a .375H&H Flanged for the medium stuff (kudu, waterbuck, sable, roan, eland, gnu, et.al.) and cats, and a single shot in 7x57R for everything else (impala, bushbuck, reedbuck, etc.).

Oh, throw in another single-shot in .220 Wotkyns-Wilson Arrow for 'varmints'.

A brace of 12ga. British game guns for fowling, and that should cover it nicely.

George

375 H&H by Holland
577 double sidelock by WR
Matching (but not in weight) 275 and 416 Rigby's
1890 Winchester pump 22lr
Holland Double 12ga Paradox gun for ball and shot with matching smoothbore buddy

A rich young lady socialite to pay for it all