What are you doing right now??
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youngolddude
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It's 21 outside and I'm partially through the news, blogs, etc.
I had a shell go off out of battery in a 1897 shotgun once. I think the flag didn't rise and the primer hit an extractor hook. Scorched my underside of my hat, froze the bolt and rendered it useless. I was clean until that last shot which scored as a miss. My face got peppered with bits of something, but no real harm to me.
I had a shell go off out of battery in a 1897 shotgun once. I think the flag didn't rise and the primer hit an extractor hook. Scorched my underside of my hat, froze the bolt and rendered it useless. I was clean until that last shot which scored as a miss. My face got peppered with bits of something, but no real harm to me.
HayesGreener
Ronin
I examined a duck hunter's pump shotgun where the barrel ruptured. He was shooting heavy waterfowl loads that had been carried to the blind several years in a row. What we figured out was, when he fired, the old plastic hull separated from the brass base and traveled down the barrel, and became lodged part way down the bore. When he fired the next round the barrel was obstructed and Boom!
I saw a similar situation on the skeet field where a $20k Krieghoff blew up due to a barrel obstruction with a reload. That one resulted in a severed artery in the shooter's forearm. Fortunately a trauma surgeon was on the squad and got the bleeding under control right away. Of interest is that the injured shooter was an OB/GYN doc whose phone and pager was constantly going off. He was distracted while reloading and there's a lesson in that. I have shot many thousands of skeet targets and birds with my O/U shotguns and am in the habit of looking through the barrels after every shot
Overcharged ammo from the factory is rare but it happens. In my experience if a shotgun blows up it's most likely due to a barrel obstruction or a reloading mistake.
I saw a similar situation on the skeet field where a $20k Krieghoff blew up due to a barrel obstruction with a reload. That one resulted in a severed artery in the shooter's forearm. Fortunately a trauma surgeon was on the squad and got the bleeding under control right away. Of interest is that the injured shooter was an OB/GYN doc whose phone and pager was constantly going off. He was distracted while reloading and there's a lesson in that. I have shot many thousands of skeet targets and birds with my O/U shotguns and am in the habit of looking through the barrels after every shot
Overcharged ammo from the factory is rare but it happens. In my experience if a shotgun blows up it's most likely due to a barrel obstruction or a reloading mistake.
HayesGreener
Ronin
Coffee in and dogs fed. It's too cold for finishing cabinets so I will be working on my air compressor and some trim work today.
Belt Fed
Ronin
This is the ammo he was using, the #4 and #6 combination
Steel Waterfowl Load
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KillerFord1977
SAINT
Snowing pretty hard North of Dallas Ft Worth. We are getting a lot of snow right now. Having breakfast and watching it come down
Annihilator
Emissary
Going to see my primary care doctor today about this damn head cold, cough is horrendous, gotta do something.
KillerFord1977
SAINT
Snowing hard for awhile now..
Not as bad as the folks up northern states, but for Texas, this is going to be about 2-6”, which is rare for us
Not as bad as the folks up northern states, but for Texas, this is going to be about 2-6”, which is rare for us
Bassbob
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How about a pic of you out by the pool barefoot ?
KillerFord1977
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NMEDGE
Professional
How come no pictures of feet by the pool?
KillerFord1977
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Bassbob
Emissary
I asked the same question.
Ya know if I was him that would have been the first thing I posted. Bob don’t GAF.
KillerFord1977
SAINT
I asked the same question.
Ya know if I was him that would have been the first thing I posted. Bob don’t GAF.
Bassbob
Emissary
There’s the KF we know and love. Woulda been better if you were in a chaise lounge with a drink and a dog, but it’s a little early for drinking and the dogs not dumb enough to go out and stick his feet in the snow.
KillerFord1977
SAINT
Yeah, the dog looked at me and stayed on the couchThere’s the KF we know and love. Woulda been better if you were in a chaise lounge with a drink and a dog, but it’s a little early for drinking and the dogs not dumb enough to go out and stick his feet in the snow.
youngolddude
Professional
Got back from the doctor. A1C went from 7.1 to 6.3 and weighed in at 200. I've been as much as 232 since retirement. I don't have a scale, but my belt was tightened up a notch, so I thought I'd lost some.