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

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

Walt

springfield art said:

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.

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I believe that was the Last of the Mohicans.

M. De Land said:

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 !

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

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

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

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

Cruzatte said:

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

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

Yes there was' Wobble' at the logging camp I worked on .Too hot so I had time so I was traveling down the Tisitika river on Vancouver island down to the coast and Salmon where running up. I had carried my cleaning rod in the barrel as the guns rod got wetted by rain & swelled . unwittingly I shot a salmon & noticed it kicked a bit well in would do. Smashed my cleaning rod but made two holes in the Salmon To avoid the thick Salal bush I got together logs off the beach to make a crude raft & paddled up to Beaver Cove thus had a ' Gun Boat .'. Fishing boats gave me steak sandwiches' no doubt amused by the novelty . The Orcas worried me a bit my raft wasn't exactly' A1 at Loydes 'but I reached Beaver Cove and I gave a curious boy my "Splendidly appointed vessel.". The' Salt Chuck' was usually calm water. The Cruise liners just made gentle waves but the hard chine speed boats stressed my flimsy craft with sharper choppy waves as I neared Beaver Cove .
Rudyard

Nope, never have, and I don't ever see myself doing so. I have broken a ramrod while loading on the deer opener once, but there was enough sticking out that I could pull it out with pliers instead of having to fire it out.