Running late and picking up the funnel in the middle of 50 cases and spilling powder all over the place. Ugh..
Bad luck stories of shooting/reloading/gunsmithing
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Guilty and hate spilled powder... I spilled a bunch of TAC once , that was longer cleaning up than the reloading took....
KMart
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Spill 10 pounds of #8 shot in the carpet and see how long it takes you to clean it up. A vacuum cleaner won't touch it. I am telling this for a friend.
Once upon a time I shot a match with half of my ammo at -.003 neck tension (my normal) and the other half randomly between near zero and -.001. About half of my rounds were good shots... oh wait, that was yesterday.
I had to load 300 rounds of 308 for a 3-gun match, I was loading them in trays 50 at a time. I had one tray prepped and ready when my wife called me for dinner. when I got back to the bench, I seated the bullets and dumped them into my ammo can with the rest. Couldn't understand why I kept having misfires the first day! Ended up making a balalnce beam out of a dowel rod and some string to sort out the ones without powder!
my uncle walked about 3 miles away from his deer stand to take a BM, then walked the 3 miles back, climbed back up in his deer stand. after a few minutes he said I smell something funny. he had some on the back of his coverall legs
About 20 years ago I missed the best buck I never saw in Potter County, PA, a large 8 point. I saw him making his way up a small valley to where I was standing. When he got to within 120 yards and turned broad side, I rested my 308 Rem 700 against a tree and took the shot. The deer jump as if hit and ran off. I waited the customary half hour or so to let him lay down and bleed out. Never found him. Never found any blood or hair at the site where he stood when I shot. I searched the entire side of the mountain the rest of the day and never found him or any evidence that I hit him. Still sticks in my crawl. After that incident I began hunting deer like I hurt varmints and predator, using a shooting stick whilte sitting on a small portable sportsman chair. Haven't missed a deer since.
New, "Precision Gunsmith" opens a shop in a pod mall?
Figured I'd help him out a bit so take a brandy new BDL 572 Remington 22 pump in. Tell him to pull the sights off,run set screws in and get me some scope mounts.
Check in a month later,per his time schedule...nothing. He says check back in a cpl weeks.
Go back,no scope mounts and he had taken some mismatched threaded sumthin or other and jammed it in the front sight hole. Then takes a ****ing dremel and proceeds to scar the heck out of the barrel cutting off the square peg,slathers cold blue on and presents me with a 40$ bill.
Tell every shooter I know about it.
Figured I'd help him out a bit so take a brandy new BDL 572 Remington 22 pump in. Tell him to pull the sights off,run set screws in and get me some scope mounts.
Check in a month later,per his time schedule...nothing. He says check back in a cpl weeks.
Go back,no scope mounts and he had taken some mismatched threaded sumthin or other and jammed it in the front sight hole. Then takes a ****ing dremel and proceeds to scar the heck out of the barrel cutting off the square peg,slathers cold blue on and presents me with a 40$ bill.
Tell every shooter I know about it.
KMart
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Was it one shot one kill? Or two shots two kills? It really doesn't take two shots to kill one Chrony. That is just over kill.
I don't think all the mishaps in my younger gunsmithing days had anything to do with bad luck. It mostly boiled down to constantly thinking I knew more than I did
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I really don't make any mistakes anymore because I move so slowly and do so little that I never accomplish anything. Therefore never do it wrong.
. I really don't make any mistakes anymore because I move so slowly and do so little that I never accomplish anything. Therefore never do it wrong.
there was a groundhog 100yds from my truck hood I shot at him 17 times and he just kept on eating..
Must have been a .308. They won’t kill squat ever since that fancy “creed” came on the scene.
I had an awful day a few months ago. I was going to go to the range with some friends. We had planned it for a few weeks now. Getting low on ammunition I decided I needed to get some reloading done.
I got everything set up and decided because I was almost out of one jug of powder that I would pour it into the other jug I had. I always buy the same lots so no big deal. After pouring one into the other I realized that I just poured ~1/2 a jug of RL16 into ~1/2 a jug of AR Comp. I pulled out my brand new jug of AR comp to start loading and set it down then forgot which jug was the mixed jug and which was the brand new one. Three jugs of powder ruined. They made a HUGE fireball.
So I drove to Bass Pro to get some more AR Comp, and hour and a half round trip. I get home and decide to shoot across a chronograph so the loads match the velocity of the ammunition I already had loaded. Second string in and I just did not notice that the bayonet of my Magnetospeed had slipped in front of the muzzle, killed it. A new one is $198.40 shipped.
This is the first major screw up for me since I started reloading. Good thing I caught it, could have ended badly. I have primers go in sideways pretty regularly, I pick them out and keep going. I have had one primer go off while seating it in probably 40K rounds. I've never had a squib, at least not accidentally.
I ruined $300 worth of stuff in a matter of two hours.
Worst part is my friends backed out.
I got everything set up and decided because I was almost out of one jug of powder that I would pour it into the other jug I had. I always buy the same lots so no big deal. After pouring one into the other I realized that I just poured ~1/2 a jug of RL16 into ~1/2 a jug of AR Comp. I pulled out my brand new jug of AR comp to start loading and set it down then forgot which jug was the mixed jug and which was the brand new one. Three jugs of powder ruined. They made a HUGE fireball.
So I drove to Bass Pro to get some more AR Comp, and hour and a half round trip. I get home and decide to shoot across a chronograph so the loads match the velocity of the ammunition I already had loaded. Second string in and I just did not notice that the bayonet of my Magnetospeed had slipped in front of the muzzle, killed it. A new one is $198.40 shipped.
This is the first major screw up for me since I started reloading. Good thing I caught it, could have ended badly. I have primers go in sideways pretty regularly, I pick them out and keep going. I have had one primer go off while seating it in probably 40K rounds. I've never had a squib, at least not accidentally.
I ruined $300 worth of stuff in a matter of two hours.
Worst part is my friends backed out.
I remember a whole thread on this forum devoted to murdering chronometers.
snert
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I "bedded" a 722 action and Hart barrel into a MCM stock, but got a bunch into the action screw. Had to eat crow and buy coffee for Hart's when they "unbedded" my nice action. I had the further humiliation of arriving there with my hands still covered in bedding from forgetting gloves. Worse than roofing tar, which finds me from a block away and always ends up on the back of my pants or in my hair, on my face....
DirtySteve
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Has anyone not shot a Chrony?? I mean it says "Shooting Chrony" on it, so thats what I did...
AckleymanII
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I have shot Chrony's with a 300 RUM and 270 win. Great customer service. I sent them both to see if they were covered under Warranty.
Oh, I forgot, I shot one with a 9mm, it missed the light sensors.
Oh, I forgot, I shot one with a 9mm, it missed the light sensors.
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Hino895
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Needing to get some practice in with my bow I set my portable target in one of those plast/resin lawn chairs.
Slung a few arrows at it and was shooting great out of no where came a miss.
Arrow glanced off the arm of the chair and went into the sidewall of a two week old tire on my work truck.
Kept that chair with the groove on the arm on my deck for years.
The one good thing was the arrow was still useable.
Slung a few arrows at it and was shooting great out of no where came a miss.
Arrow glanced off the arm of the chair and went into the sidewall of a two week old tire on my work truck.
Kept that chair with the groove on the arm on my deck for years.
The one good thing was the arrow was still useable.
Downhill
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When I was 14, was driving in pastures in my grand dad's relatively new 79 chevy pickup. Seen a coyote, pull the old 30-06 out of the window rack, laid said rifle across the hood. Took careful aim through the Weaver K4 and touched her off, coyote broke and ran. Remember the slightly raised ridge in the center of a 79 chevy pickup hood? Yep the offset of the scope caused me to X ring the ridge, deflecting the old powerpoint slightly down and resulting in an exit hole 3" down on the passenger side front fender. Dumbass! Was doing forced labor until I was well into my 20's to "pay for it". Although my grand dad never discouraged from shooting.
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