Ever shoot a loading rod down range? You tell me........... I won't rat you out !

[BP Addict]

That is still a "yet" for me. I've been close a couple of times, though!

Walt

 

[bpd303]

Then there's that TV or movie episode where a guy was being stalked by an Indian, and shot his rod purposefully into the Native, he only had a short time to re-load. Clever.

I believe that was the Last of the Mohicans.

 

[shorthair]

I've not had the distinction yet but hey I'm only 74 an recovering from a heart attack, plenty of time left !
I remember the first time I witnessed the phenomenon as a teenager shooting off the front porch at my cousins house. We were shooting at a target on an old grainy about 50 yards distant and I recall a flash of something long going down range as my cousin touched off his flint gun in .44 cal.
I didn't know what it was until we got down to the target and found the splintered loading rod fragments.
Cousin was talking about how the gun kicked more than usual as I remember it. He was done shooting for that day !

Not yet but tis early so I have plenty of time for that statement to change.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

Yep..I've shot rods down range.........on purpose:

 

[jrweis1997]

I have shot a jag that was stuck before lost forever god only knows where it landed

 

[Cruzatte]

Oh, the interesting things future archaeologists are going to find on abandoned gun ranges!

 

[flconch53]

Oh, the interesting things future archaeologists are going to find on abandoned gun ranges!

If they come digging around my house they will be convinced there was a flint mine in SWFl