I suppose a great deal of the guys reading that question will include scope or scope mount failures but for this topic I,m only referring to the rifles ability to function, as in feed from the magazine, fire and extract empty cases.
if you hunt long enough youll slip and fall and screw up a scope, thats just hunting in the rockys
Now obviously the more time you spend in the field and the nastier the weather and the more distance you carry any weapon the more chance you'll experience problems, and prior maintenance or lack of maintenance will effect results.
some problems are very easily resolved, provided you have minimal tools and a basic concept of how parts operate, others can, be more complex.
Ive spent almost 45 years hunting and much of that out of state, in remote areas hunting deer and elk, and yes early on I had my share of screw-up, mostly due to either lack of proper maintenance or owner caused stupidity.
heres a few I experienced, over the last 45 years,please post yours
(1) I had a 378 weatherby trigger internal allen screw vibrate loose,,preventing it from firing. (easily fixed back at camp with an allen key set and loc-tite in my tool box)
(2)I had a remington 700 , in 375 H&H,that had a tendency to dump the magazine of cartridges when the first round fired(duct tape temp fix until catch was replaced)
(3) I had a remington 742 that would only work as a single shot (traced to broken magazine spring) replaced magazine
(4) I had a remington 760 that had the rear sight fall off (sent back to remington the barrel proved to be defective and one rear sight threaded hole drilled into barrel rifling) got new rifle barrel
(5) marlin 45/70 extractor broke, (trip into town and local gunshop sold me a replacement, it never happened again and that rifle was used for decades
if you hunt long enough youll slip and fall and screw up a scope, thats just hunting in the rockys
Now obviously the more time you spend in the field and the nastier the weather and the more distance you carry any weapon the more chance you'll experience problems, and prior maintenance or lack of maintenance will effect results.
some problems are very easily resolved, provided you have minimal tools and a basic concept of how parts operate, others can, be more complex.
Ive spent almost 45 years hunting and much of that out of state, in remote areas hunting deer and elk, and yes early on I had my share of screw-up, mostly due to either lack of proper maintenance or owner caused stupidity.
heres a few I experienced, over the last 45 years,please post yours
(1) I had a 378 weatherby trigger internal allen screw vibrate loose,,preventing it from firing. (easily fixed back at camp with an allen key set and loc-tite in my tool box)
(2)I had a remington 700 , in 375 H&H,that had a tendency to dump the magazine of cartridges when the first round fired(duct tape temp fix until catch was replaced)
(3) I had a remington 742 that would only work as a single shot (traced to broken magazine spring) replaced magazine
(4) I had a remington 760 that had the rear sight fall off (sent back to remington the barrel proved to be defective and one rear sight threaded hole drilled into barrel rifling) got new rifle barrel
(5) marlin 45/70 extractor broke, (trip into town and local gunshop sold me a replacement, it never happened again and that rifle was used for decades