M E Morrison
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Back in 2000, two friends and I went to Tanzania on a Cape Buffalo/Plains Game hunt.
On our last day there, the top guy at the camp asked if we would like to assist in culling some zebras () Of course we were happy to assist. Later in the day, we ran across a few and my buddy lined up his Winchester M70 chambered in .375 H&H on a nice zebra, pulled the trigger and all we heard was pffffttt..! I had him put his rifle against a tree as it sounded like a hang-fire, and finished up on the zeb with my rifle. When the shooting was over, we checked his rifle, and low and behold the round had a primer loaded backwards
This was with factory new Federal Premium Safari ammo, which cost (at that time) about $80/box.
Funny that we got half way around the world, hunted for 10 days, etc., and it was never noticed until he was in the moment.
It's just a good thing he wasn't facing down a buffalo at the time....!
Makes a good case for inspecting your ammo, doesn't it?
