housedad
05-19-2009, 12:55 AM
Well, my life is getting to a somewhat normal level again, and a young man who I have seen grow up through my fire company had finally gotten his first gun. a Glock 40 caliber. Well, I thought it would be good for me to go to the range again, and to teach him how to shoot safely and properly before he got into bad habits.
I brought a Ruger mark 2 22 and a S&W mod 27 to ease him up to it. He did well, very well. He shot out 200 rounds of 22, 50 rnds of .38 24 rnds of 357, and then 100 rnds of .40 in his new glock. Started hitting the paper consistently after the first 50 rounds or so.
Anyway, I brought along some .38 cartidges (about 50) that a guy had given to me. Said his father had loaded them and they were left to him after he died. So I decided to go ahead and shoot them to get the brass. They were plain cast semi wadcutters. If they were loaded wrong, I knew the mod 27 was strong enough to take it.
So, after I get the youngin finished shooting, I go ahead and start shooting these cartiridges. About the moment that the trigger finger finished pulling on the first one, I knew something was wrong. There was a lot of smoke that smelled familiar and the bullet did not make it the 30 feet to the target.
Nope, it just popped out and landed just short of the target on the ground.
Now, I thought, this must be a bad load, so I pull the trigger again, and durn if the same thing doesn't happen.
I start laughing, waving away the smoke, and go get the inertial puller from the car.
After I got a couple open, I found what I thought was in there. For some reason, the guy that loaded them put in a small amount of black powder as the load.
Whoever it was was probably trying to work up a load with BP for some reason. I took the rounds back home and took the rest apart.
The things folks will try to load.
I brought a Ruger mark 2 22 and a S&W mod 27 to ease him up to it. He did well, very well. He shot out 200 rounds of 22, 50 rnds of .38 24 rnds of 357, and then 100 rnds of .40 in his new glock. Started hitting the paper consistently after the first 50 rounds or so.
Anyway, I brought along some .38 cartidges (about 50) that a guy had given to me. Said his father had loaded them and they were left to him after he died. So I decided to go ahead and shoot them to get the brass. They were plain cast semi wadcutters. If they were loaded wrong, I knew the mod 27 was strong enough to take it.
So, after I get the youngin finished shooting, I go ahead and start shooting these cartiridges. About the moment that the trigger finger finished pulling on the first one, I knew something was wrong. There was a lot of smoke that smelled familiar and the bullet did not make it the 30 feet to the target.
Nope, it just popped out and landed just short of the target on the ground.
Now, I thought, this must be a bad load, so I pull the trigger again, and durn if the same thing doesn't happen.
I start laughing, waving away the smoke, and go get the inertial puller from the car.
After I got a couple open, I found what I thought was in there. For some reason, the guy that loaded them put in a small amount of black powder as the load.
Whoever it was was probably trying to work up a load with BP for some reason. I took the rounds back home and took the rest apart.
The things folks will try to load.