Perhaps I am a bit sensitive about bogus cause of death reports. For fifteen years I've been fighting a govt coroner who specified a ridiculous act of God cause of death to cover up for a govt doctor and hospital who failed to treat my son. How ridiculous? Three previous generations of consistent epilepsy including one fatality. Four seizures in the month before he died. No family history of heart issues and my son had no history of cardiac symptoms. But somehow he died in the night of a heart attack. No forensic evidence of cardiac failure but definite evidence was found of a seizure (edema of the brain). Doesn't make any difference. Abracadabra, he died of heart failure. They can put it in the report and make it reality.
Now we have another official report that appears to me engineered to cast doubts of blame "on one of our own" who paid the ultimate price. The client supposedly had some odd fixation with completely disassembling his rifle every night. Why is that important to a hunting accident report? And then the following day after wounding a buffalo (the obvious implication being the shot was placed poorly), the client is killed and PH (if he was the PH?) is wounded very seriously. The PH? is heroically able to get up off the ground with a collapsed lung and ruptured diaphragm, find his gun, and fire it a third and final time to put buffalo down. Then the client's gun is found in an impossible condition with the bolt shroud separated from the rifle. The report also states the client was a seventy-eight year-old guy with a pacemaker. Now why would they even put that in the report? To make us question whether he belonged out there hunting buffalo in the first place. So maybe he had a heart attack during the charge (the report says he was gored in the leg). Maybe he couldn't shoot the gun during the charge because he reassembled it incorrectly. I don't believe the client's gun could lose its shroud after successfully firing a shot. That is a physical impossibility with any gun I've ever seen. Therefore, I don't believe he did take it apart the night before. I suspect both his strange habit of nightly disassembling it and the gun coming apart were added to the report, like the bit about the client's age and implied poor health, to put more than usual amount of blame on the client. And to deflect it from others.
And I can tell you if this gentleman had OCD, as the report implies, his rifle would NOT have been reassembled incorrectly. No more than he would have been capable of sitting down to a table with the fork on the wrong side of his plate. OCD would not have allowed him to put his gun away reassembled incorrectly.
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