Knock on wood but so far I've had no unpleasant surprises with my shooting equipment while on safari. I did have a stock split on my pet 458 about 2 weeks before I was going on safari. At that time my newly acquired 416 had a feeding problem and my 375 was in the shop. Two differnt people lent me 375's only to have both of them fail. One didn't have quite enough sear engagement and would not always cock. The other was a European rifle and the Redfield scope mount was broken. Both of these problems were unknown to the owners at the time. So I ended up taking the 416 which worked out OK but I had to remember it was a 2 shooter. Of course the 2 buff I shot were the bullet proof variety with one taking 5 and the other 7 shots to finish. I nearly had a rectal bleed before the safari but on the ground things worked fine.

Mark