Good decision on the rifle and caliber you picked. I had the same decision a couple of years ago. I was going on a plains game hunt to africa and had a couple of guns that would get the job done, but I was looking for an excuse to get another rifle. I looked hard at used guns because I didn't want to fork out alot of money since I was still paying for the trip. I found an A bolt in a 300 win mag with a VXIII for around $600. The gun performed great. I found a couple of guns for about the same price in a 338 win mag. I really thought hard about getting one of those, but in the end I decided that the 300 would be plenty of power and I would still get some use out of it for deer hunting, which is what I mainly hunt. It's still a bit of an overkill for whitetail, but not nearly as much as a 338. It's always nice to have a larger caliber rifle sitting around for hunts like this that might pop up in the future.
