Like most great adventures, this one started out over an African campfire. What if, Michael Bane asked veteran gunwriter Richard Mann, we hunted Cape Buffalo, the most dangerous game in the world, with a lever gun in 45-70, the same caliber used by Custer's troops on their ill-fated afternoon and much less powerful than the usual African safari rifle? A year later, both join Carlos Martinez, head of the Marlin Custom Shop, in the thorns after the baddest animal of them all.