rdwarrior
06-19-2019, 01:59 PM
Well I had an aww **** moment (*****) shooting this past weekend. We had a work day at our hunt property and afterwards I was doing some shooting to check out some loads I had worked up in various calibers. One of the guys stayed behind with me and was talking to me the entire time I shot over the chrono. The batteries died in the chrono so that ended that, even tho I had hoped to shoot a couple new to me cast boolits out of my muzzle loader. Well I was getting tired, and fired two shots from the ML, one each of two different cast boolits - one was 360 grains and one was 373 grains in front of 100grains of triple seven. All went well and I went to dig up all the projectiles to check them out. I found almost all but could not find the 373 grain ML boolit. So I decided to throw one more round into the bank and retrieve it.
This is where things went south. My lube had melted so I smeared on as much as I could to the boolit and went to load it. I couldnt find my palm saver to fully seat the bullet with the ramrod, and when I did find it, I finished the loading, all the while the other guy was talking to me and I was tired due to work and the incredible heat and humidity. Anyway, I touched off that round and the scope cut my nose wide open and it sat me on my backside from a kneeling position. All I could say is what the H happened. Got my wits about me again and went to retrieve the projectile. I found it and dug it out of the dirt and immediately knew what happened. I had failed to remove the ramrod from the barrel. The ramrod was fiberglass I think but it had a brass boolit seater on it that weighed 160 grains. I never found any part of the ram rod but the brass seater was fully embedded in the nose of the minnie. I figure I launched over 1200 grains of projectile in front of 100 grains of triple seven. It definitely was too much since it sat me on my butt and almost broke my nose on the scope.
Bottom line the only damage was my nose and my ego. Rifle was a TC Omega z5. It appears to be undamaged.
So my question is am the only one to admit this major mistake (*****) or have others been distracted when tired and done the same thing.
This is where things went south. My lube had melted so I smeared on as much as I could to the boolit and went to load it. I couldnt find my palm saver to fully seat the bullet with the ramrod, and when I did find it, I finished the loading, all the while the other guy was talking to me and I was tired due to work and the incredible heat and humidity. Anyway, I touched off that round and the scope cut my nose wide open and it sat me on my backside from a kneeling position. All I could say is what the H happened. Got my wits about me again and went to retrieve the projectile. I found it and dug it out of the dirt and immediately knew what happened. I had failed to remove the ramrod from the barrel. The ramrod was fiberglass I think but it had a brass boolit seater on it that weighed 160 grains. I never found any part of the ram rod but the brass seater was fully embedded in the nose of the minnie. I figure I launched over 1200 grains of projectile in front of 100 grains of triple seven. It definitely was too much since it sat me on my butt and almost broke my nose on the scope.
Bottom line the only damage was my nose and my ego. Rifle was a TC Omega z5. It appears to be undamaged.
So my question is am the only one to admit this major mistake (*****) or have others been distracted when tired and done the same thing.