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<blockquote data-quote="LRNut" data-source="post: 2161566" data-attributes="member: 3230"><p>I wrote about a similar experience in which I shot a 7STW in a 300 RUM. The case ruptured and blew gas into my face. My eye doctor said my hard gas perm contact lens saved my right eye.</p><p></p><p>In 2015 I was hunting in the Kigosi Reserve in Tanzania. I shot a Cape buffalo with my 416 Rem Mag. He ended up being the toughest buffalo I have ever shot. I was pouring rounds into him and you could hear the air sucking into his lungs as he struggled to get up. My mag was empty, so I reached for another in my cartridge belt. I noticed at the shot it sounded distinctly different and didn't have nearly the same recoil.</p><p></p><p>When we skinned the buffalo one of the trackers pulled out a bullet that had no rifling marks and no expansion. One of them said it was a poacher's bullet; I recognized it as a 225 gr 338 bullet. I had inserted three .338 WM rounds in my cartridge belt on one side, the rest being .416. I had accidentally loaded a 338 WM round in my .416; it fire-formed in the chamber and obviously produced far less velocity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LRNut, post: 2161566, member: 3230"] I wrote about a similar experience in which I shot a 7STW in a 300 RUM. The case ruptured and blew gas into my face. My eye doctor said my hard gas perm contact lens saved my right eye. In 2015 I was hunting in the Kigosi Reserve in Tanzania. I shot a Cape buffalo with my 416 Rem Mag. He ended up being the toughest buffalo I have ever shot. I was pouring rounds into him and you could hear the air sucking into his lungs as he struggled to get up. My mag was empty, so I reached for another in my cartridge belt. I noticed at the shot it sounded distinctly different and didn't have nearly the same recoil. When we skinned the buffalo one of the trackers pulled out a bullet that had no rifling marks and no expansion. One of them said it was a poacher's bullet; I recognized it as a 225 gr 338 bullet. I had inserted three .338 WM rounds in my cartridge belt on one side, the rest being .416. I had accidentally loaded a 338 WM round in my .416; it fire-formed in the chamber and obviously produced far less velocity. [/QUOTE]
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