Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact
NitroExpress.com: Rifle failures in Africa.........

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies


*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

Hunting >> Hunting in Africa & hunting dangerous game

NitroXAdministrator
.700 member


Reged: 25/12/02
Posts: 39889
Loc: Barossa Valley, South Australi...
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.



--------------------
John aka NitroX

...
Govt get out of our lives NOW!
"I love the smell of cordite in the morning."
"A Sharp spear needs no polish"


Post Extras Print Post   Remind Me!     Notify Moderator


Entire topic
Subject Posted by Posted on
* 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......... NitroXAdministrator   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

Extra information
0 registered and 152 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator:   



Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating: *****
Thread views: 5833

You rated this thread a 5.
Jump to

Contact Us NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5


Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact


Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved