I think everyone is totally overthinking this. We all know the risk when we hunt buffalo. This hunter wound up with a broken neck.

By the way, is a .350 even legal in Uganda?

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Originally posted by lavaca:
I think everyone is totally overthinking this. We all know the risk when we hunt buffalo. This hunter wound up with a broken neck.

By the way, is a .350 even legal in Uganda?

I find your post pretty damn stupid. Why are we overthinking this incident? Lets not forget not only did the client lose his life but his PH came close to losing his too and it seems it all came down to a rifle misfunctioning.
No guarantee the client would have been effective in putting the wounded buffalo down with his follow up shot but at the short range involved and reasonable calibre of his gun, something would have been better than nothing.
There are risks involved in any hunting, climbing around cold and icy mountains hunting Tahr as we do here is very risky, probably more so than hunting Africa with a PH and other support in the party, but we manage risk.
How a rifle bolt could come out of an action in pieces on the ground after firing a shot and wounding a buffalo is beyond most of our logical thinking. Was it human or mechanical failure, that's the question we could all benefit from knowing the answer to.

It's about managing risk, not closing ones eyes and ears and hoping it doesn't happen to you.

. . . let’s see, we have six specks of pepper and five specks of fly shit. Let’s keeping picking.

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Originally posted by MJines:
. . . let’s see, we have six specks of pepper and five specks of fly shit. Let’s keeping picking.

No-one is asking or forcing you to take part in this discussion but you are free to add your peppered fly shit

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Originally posted by eagle27:

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Originally posted by MJines:
. . . let’s see, we have six specks of pepper and five specks of fly shit. Let’s keeping picking.

No-one is asking or forcing you to take part in this discussion but you are free to add your peppered fly shit

I am sure we haven’t heard the end of this.

Too many questions still remain unanswered!