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NitroX
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Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........
07/02/06 05:05 AM

I've had a camera failure due to the dust in Kenya, four of us all had to visit a camera repair shop in Nairobi. And had two load/bullet failures in Zimbabwe. But no rifle failure.

The batch of bullets (180 gr Nosler Partitions - .30-06) were failing to open up and acted like solids. Luckily had 200 gr loads as well and they worked much much better. The batch of 180 grs must have been a perculiar lot as no one else seems to have had a problem.

I neglected re-size my .375 H&H necks on another trip and they were moving in the magazine under recoil which caused me some problems as well.

The scopes and rifles all worked very well as they were well tested before hand. I think the whole package - rifle, mount, scope and ammo needs to be in balance and well tuned.

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Rifle failures in Africa.........	allenday	05/02/06 01:21 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	rgp	02/03/06 07:25 PM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	allenday	03/03/06 01:12 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	oupa	02/03/06 03:22 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	hoppdoc	03/03/06 01:19 PM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	allenday	02/03/06 04:53 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	oupa	02/03/06 12:36 PM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	mikeh416Rigby	03/03/06 01:09 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	22hornet	19/02/06 05:26 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	BigBullet	19/02/06 11:28 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	JPK	19/02/06 03:27 PM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	500Nitro	19/02/06 04:16 PM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	markhyoung	22/02/06 08:49 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	MRobinson	24/02/06 04:30 PM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	bwanamrm	08/02/06 11:41 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	allenday	10/02/06 12:56 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	Mike_McGuire	10/02/06 12:36 PM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	bwanamrm	10/02/06 10:16 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	MRobinson	07/02/06 04:25 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	NitroX	07/02/06 05:05 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	JPK	07/02/06 02:52 PM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	larcher	08/02/06 12:58 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	larcher	05/02/06 09:57 PM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	allenday	07/02/06 02:31 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	bonanza	07/02/06 03:19 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	Boomer	05/02/06 03:28 AM
Re: Rifle failures in Africa.........	cowboy	05/02/06 01:02 PM

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