Agreed. I've done Africa 5 times. There aren't a lot of sporting good stores handy in safari camps. Same can be said for Canada, which I've hunted a couple of times as well. I've never had a scope fail but I have removed them when I was crawling through thick brush and the shot will be close and fast and the scope is just one more thing to get hung up on. But if I do have one fail I am ready to take care of it.

And I normally have an extra gun along when I'm hunting with others. Once in a bear camp in BC a guy had his gun go down due to a split stock (it was a 340 WBY) and I had a 450 Marlin along. I loaned the guy my rifle and he used it to take a nice black bear.

Planning don't ya know but that concept may be lost on "some" people.