Silver Jack Hammer
12-25-2017, 12:03 PM
I had a near catastrophe a while ago that I want to share.
My .45-70 has tight chambers. Sometimes a round will not chamber, maybe due to the 540 gr. boolit having a seam from the mould that too pronounced or maybe the boolit has backed out of the case slightly. Sometimes these rounds that won’t chamber also won’t eject. I push the cartridge back in the chamber enough with my thumb to try to eject them with the ejector again. This one was really stuck so I knocked it out with the rod.
Before I chambered the next round I checked the bore. Who was the idiot that left the rod on the bore?!? That could have been lively.
I watch gun blow-up and plane crash videos. My incident had all the makings of a disaster. I was distracted, working on an unusual problem and I didn’t think I was in trouble. I have had success in solving difficult problems but just like the plane crash videos I can get into trouble being distracted and complacent.
With my vision being what it is, I switched glasses from my shooting glasses to my other glasses to knock the stuck cartridge out of the chamber. Another minor distraction.
My .45-70 has tight chambers. Sometimes a round will not chamber, maybe due to the 540 gr. boolit having a seam from the mould that too pronounced or maybe the boolit has backed out of the case slightly. Sometimes these rounds that won’t chamber also won’t eject. I push the cartridge back in the chamber enough with my thumb to try to eject them with the ejector again. This one was really stuck so I knocked it out with the rod.
Before I chambered the next round I checked the bore. Who was the idiot that left the rod on the bore?!? That could have been lively.
I watch gun blow-up and plane crash videos. My incident had all the makings of a disaster. I was distracted, working on an unusual problem and I didn’t think I was in trouble. I have had success in solving difficult problems but just like the plane crash videos I can get into trouble being distracted and complacent.
With my vision being what it is, I switched glasses from my shooting glasses to my other glasses to knock the stuck cartridge out of the chamber. Another minor distraction.