went to weed eat,lay corn bombs for hogs <<<<<<<<<>> scout >>>
friday
Neighbor saws 3 fingers off with table saw flown in lear jet to alabama to reattach >>>>>>>>>> nope
Saturday
Kid at another camp blows black powder 50 cal through hand while loading gun . He had sawed off fingers on left hand couple years ago , now right hand has a hole in it . cauterized instantly luckily no bone hit . don't know if it was just the rod or the 50 cal ball ??
I wore a football helmut on the way home , wrapped telephone books on nephew
Bad luck.
In other bad luck news- a Miami hockey player got his neck cut pretty badly by a Northern Michigan player. Total bad luck play, but he's going to be ok.
Those folks need an OSHA training class!
Full moon this weekend. Nuking futz :(
oldtin
HalfDork
10/24/10 9:39 p.m.
Yikes! Well aside from that Mrs. Kennedy, how was the parade?
Sounds like I'm glad I hid in the bunker, protected by the holy water moat.
What kind of camp are you going to? We paint ceramic cats.
Uh was this some sort of ancient flintlock-style gun (edit: Ah yes "muzzle-loading" was the term I was trying to remember) that you load with a ramrod? If not, what the hell was his hand doing in front of the barrel?
Black power gun. Quite popular these days. Many people shoot them during the primitive or black power season that usually opens before the regular season. Many black power guns these days are quite advanced and very accurate often doing 2 to 3 moa at 100yrds. I did get to watch a guy fire a cleaning rod out of his gun while he was sighting it in at the range. It went about 85 yrds and then buried itself ground. The gun seemed fine afterward.
I could totally see someone hurting them-self with a gun like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxnoZIsMEa4
Will
HalfDork
10/25/10 5:08 p.m.
JohnGalt wrote:
Black power gun. Quite popular these days. Many people shoot them during the primitive or black power season that usually opens before the regular season.
I think the word you're looking for is "powder," not "power."
guy probably had a cook off on the muzzle loader.
Keep the crushed/spent cap under the hammer and the hammer down until you are done loading. This keeps an errant draft from keeping an ember alive in the breech.
JohnGalt wrote:
I did get to watch a guy fire a cleaning rod out of his gun while he was sighting it in at the range.
ram rod.. Not cleaning rod.
And, you hold the rod between your fingers. Never do you place the palm of your hand over the end of the rod. For these exact reasons.
foxtrapper wrote:
And, you hold the rod between your fingers. Never do you place the palm of your hand over the end of the rod. For these exact reasons.
Interesting, I've never heard that advocated before, but should work. My dad taught me to use my pinky when seating the ball. He said if you're going to loose something, might as well be a pinky.
ignorant wrote:
JohnGalt wrote:
I did get to watch a guy fire a cleaning rod out of his gun while he was sighting it in at the range.
ram rod.. Not cleaning rod.
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Combining blanks and cleaning rods in the M16A2 rifle is not an acceptable means of acquiring “meat for the tribe.” It
should be noted it’s a bitch unpinning a squirrel from a tree and you NEVER get your cleaning rod back.
JohnGalt wrote:
Black power gun. Quite popular these days. Many people shoot them during the primitive or black power season that usually opens before the regular season. Many black power guns these days are quite advanced and very accurate often doing 2 to 3 moa at 100yrds. I did get to watch a guy fire a cleaning rod out of his gun while he was sighting it in at the range. It went about 85 yrds and then buried itself ground. The gun seemed fine afterward.
I could totally see someone hurting them-self with a gun like this.
Here in Ct., you don't need a license, safety course, anyone over 18 can walk into the local Wal-Mart and buy all the black powder they want--sold in gallon cans, too,
Just tear open the package and fire away.
Not a rifled weapon, so no regulation, except must be 18+ to buy one....no wonder people are blowing holes in their hands, etc....And yet you need a training course and license to operate a dinghy with a 2 hp outboard...
foxtrapper wrote:
And, you hold the rod between your fingers. Never do you place the palm of your hand over the end of the rod. For these exact reasons.
Same thing as making sure your thumb is on the same side of an engine crank as your fingers so you don't lose it if you get a backfire. Makes you wonder what else we don't know now that we all would have known even 75 years ago.
I would love to try my hand at hunting deer or elk but there are just too many idiots in the woods during hunting season.
I'll stick to targets for now.
2002maniac wrote:
I would love to try my hand at hunting deer or elk but there are just too many idiots in the woods during hunting season.
+1, additional pluses for drunkenness.
There's a reason I don't hunt in S'consin with the drunks.
also never pour the powder directly from the flask into the muzzleloader. Use a measure...