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Hardcover, 472 pages, 313 b&w photos, 52 color photos, 6' x 9".

Though few hunters actually make the trip to Africa in pursuit of “The Big Five”—elephant, rhino, leopard, lion, and Cape buffalo—the popularity of rifles designed to take such dangerous big game has never been greater. Legendary gunmakers such as Purdey, Rigby, and Holland & Holland can’t keep up with the demand for their fine rifles.

Terry Wieland, a widely recognized firearms expert and veteran of many safaris, explores in detail the rifles and calibers that are drawing attention.

This revised and expanded second edition covers what has changed in the field since the first edition was published in 2006—new calibers, new cartridges, new guns, new actions—and includes all-new material on action and barrel manufacture, tracing the production of a fine custom-made big-bore rifle.

TERRY WIELAND is the shooting editor of Gray’s Sporting Journal, a field editor for Sports Afield, and a frequent contributor to several other magazines, including Shooting Sportsman. In 1971, as a journalist, Wieland went to Africa for the first time to cover the civil war in Sudan, and he returned several more times, making his first safari in 1990. Since then he has hunted in South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. He usually spends several months each year in Africa. Terry has written several books on fine guns and hunting, including Spanish Best: The Fine Shotguns of Spain, Spiral-Horn Dreams, The Magic of Big Game, A View from a Tall Hill: Robert Ruark in Africa, Dangerous-Game Rifles, and Vintage British Shotguns. He lives in Fenton, Missouri.