Posted on 10/03/2017 6:10:13 AM PDT by w1n1
I know a guy who did just what you said. Load a traditional muzzle loader with smokeless. It blew the breech block off the gun and lodged in his forehead and blinded him in one eye. Carried around a gruesome scar for about 30 years until he passed a couple of years ago.
My brother-in-law almost killed himself when the barrel of his was blocked by a previous load. It certainly screwed up the rifle....LOL!My guess is a previously loaded charge. - faucetman
I recall from Basic ROTC being told that after a battle during the muzzle-loading era a musket was found to have been loaded some eight times (IIRC) without ever firing. The soldier must have been pretty excited, to have not noticed that the first load didn’t fire, and then to have reloaded and “fired” to no effect several times thereafter, without realizing what was - and what was not - happening!
The short article mentions that there are bolt-action muzzleloaders.
Like this kind of random thing just crops up out of no where, sneaks up your ass and there is no protection from it?
HEY DUMBASS. Dont poke the gun barrel into the ground before you shoot it!
A friends dad told of deer hunting with a 30-30 when he spotted a “buck of a lifetime”. He jacked a round in the chamber and got ready for the shot. Then he jacked a round in the chamber and steadied himself. Then he jacked a round in chamber...
Until he had ejected all his ammo on the ground. LOL
LOL, there is a whole generation of boys who got their kicks by shooting at things with the clump of dirt jammed into the end of one of those air guns not meant to do more than make a noise when you pulled the trigger!
Since when does a muzzleloader have a bolt action?
Remington marketed such several years ago. The shooter opens the bolt to put a primer in place. I personally don’t shoot black powder because there have been instances of shooters reloaded too quickly after the first shot, tamping black powder (very, very volatile, btw) onto a still burning particle. Kaboom!
I Googled "bolt action muzzle loader" and sure enough I get the Remington Model 700 Ultimate Muzzleloader.
THAT could’ve been what happened to that soldier, I guess.Gotta load . . . gotta load . . . gotta load . . . gotta load . . . gotta load . . . gotta load . . .
Compulsively.
How about that, I didn’t know that. Learn something new here every day.
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