Youtube moment...
or it would have been if somebody had been filming - which,
fortunately, didn't happen. Mrs. Wave, in her recent bout of "redecorating" has decided that my office is to be "renovated" - I have to admit that it's a good idea, it's been about ten years. But that requires cleaning it out, throwin stuff away, etc. In my perusement of a small out of the way file cabinet, I found a bunch of 10 guage shotgun shells which, as I remember it, I had reloaded years ago then after my shoulder operation that same year, never used. Well, old shells - old breech loading 10 guage shotgun - rainy day - haven't done any shooting in a while - the range is open at the Fish and Game club - what could go wrong? Did a quick D&C on the shotgun, off to the range. First two shells fired fine - no problems. Third one - loaded up, snugged up to the shoulder and took aim - pffft...nothing. A little smoke came chuffing out the end of the barrel and then - whoof - flames out the breech and barrel - no slug though. I look down at my feet and there's the slug. :) Oopsie... I can't figure out what happened other than maybe a light load or it wasn't packed right or something. It didn't feel any different than the other two that I loaded - in terms of weight, but who would pay attention to something like that. I weighed the other shells and they were all right on the money, but I wasn't going to take any more chances with old ammo. I gave them to the club warden - he's going to disassemble them and throw them away. Now the question is what am I going to do with the .45 bullets I reloaded ten or so years ago? :) |
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