Black eye

[user 53860]

Goes against every reenactor unit's safety regs that I've seen. Hopefully one of his officers saw, and addressed the issue. But yeah, he's lucky...

Mike

I mentioned it but he kinda blew it off so I didn't push it.

 

[andy52]

Got to keep your wits about you, just a couple of weeks ago I let a few friends use my range for practice. They are all experienced muzzleloaders and something happened I've never seen before. One shooter had a flash in the pan waited the proper amount of time, rolled his rifle lock up, and was checking his flint. He did some adjustments to the flint cocked it and dropped the hammer (cock) hot spark went in the touch hole and the gun fired with no primer. The gun was pointed at the ground and I have to give him credit for that.

 

[Horse]

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Of course Doris. I had my laywer draw up the documents yesterday and I signed them. Your the sole benaficary of all my money and property in the unlikely event of my demise. So lets drop the subject. Ok darlling?

 

[user 53860]

Got to keep your wits about you, just a couple of weeks ago I let a few friends use my range for practice. They are all experienced muzzleloaders and something happened I've never seen before. One shooter had a flash in the pan waited the proper amount of time, rolled his rifle lock up, and was checking his flint. He did some adjustments to the flint cocked it and dropped the hammer (cock) hot spark went in the touch hole and the gun fired with no primer. The gun was pointed at the ground and I have to give him credit for that.

That happened to a buddy of mine at deer camp. Camping in a state park open to deer hunting. We were camping in teepees, wall tents and tin teepees. Him and His son were in a wall tent. His son was moving his long rifle and was laying it on a cot when the cock snagged on a blanket and released it causing sparks and a big hole in the side of the tent, it was smokey in there for awhile . The ball traveled at a horizontal angle as can be imagined. We don't know where the ball ended up but there were a lot of campers around and no one was hurt. Most of them came a running thinking someone got shot. Again no powder in the pan. One can never be too careful.

 

[user 53891]

And they walk among us.

And vote!

 

[shorthair]

Tain't no sense in arguing with stupid

You can't fix stupid, but you can numb it with a 2x4

 

[user 53891]

You can't fix stupid, but you can numb it with a 2x4

Damn...never heard that one....a good system to actually apply.

 

[user 53860]

You can't fix stupid, but you can numb it with a 2x4

I love it.

I will carry a 2x4 right next to my bat. Lol

 

[Billy Boy]

I attended a civil war reenactment last week in Iowa. I was paying attention to one of the main characters for the "other side" and couldn't believe what I saw.
During the skirmish he dropped the load capped it and fired, the cap just popped. So he thumped the gun on the ground and looked down the barrel then recapped and it fired. Why did he look,? WTH are you looking for a black eye? Happened All within 3 seconds.
Thankfully no embers. I've seen 5 sec hang fires before. It could have been an end to the educational part of this and a permanent eye patch.

Gotta think

Some folks have lots of issues, troubles, bills, life disappointments, etc, and there is always away out……

 

[appalichian hunter]

That happened to a buddy of mine at deer camp. Camping in a state park open to deer hunting. We were camping in teepees, wall tents and tin teepees. Him and His son were in a wall tent. His son was moving his long rifle and was laying it on a cot when the cock snagged on a blanket and released it causing sparks and a big hole in the side of the tent, it was smokey in there for awhile . The ball traveled at a horizontal angle as can be imagined. We don't know where the ball ended up but there were a lot of campers around and no one was hurt. Most of them came a running thinking someone got shot. Again no powder in the pan. One can never be too careful.

Another example of why a hammer stall should be on the frizzen at all times in camp on a flint lock.

 

[brownac1983]

I love it.

I will carry a 2x4 right next to my bat. Lol

I've always heard "If you carry a bat in your trunk, also carry a ball and a glove. Your lawyer will thank you."

 

[user 53891]

Some folks have lots of issues, troubles, bills, life disappointments, etc, and there is always away out……

That's a cop-out....there is always some way to deal with a situation....and help is there if you want it.

 

[Billy Boy]

That's a cop-out....there is always some way to deal with a situation....and help is there if you want it.

Please find in in yourself to forgive my totally misguided attempt at humor, do you remember humor?

 

[user 53891]

Please find in in yourself to forgive my totally misguided attempt at humor, do you remember humor?

Yes I remember humor. But that just described too many folks on the fringe.

 

[andy52]

Yes I remember humor. But that just described too many folks on the fringe.

Yeap and everybody but them is the reason they have those problems " it ain't my fault"....

 

[user 53891]

Yeap and everybody but them is the reason they have those problems " it ain't my fault"....

You just never know....without knowing, eh. Most on the edge don't blame anyone...they seem to just feel that they can't deal with their situation/problems. If they finally go over the edge, it's friends and families that suffer the result, but, they don't seem to comprehend that.

 

[user 53891]

You ever notice that on any thread, that the tracks get blown up and the train derails ?
And here we accuse 2 year olds of having a short attention span.

 

[Beadman]

That's about as lame brain as what I saw once too.I watched a kid once stall his 4 wheeler.He gets off.Looks at a couple things.Reaches in his pocket and gets out his bic lighter and removes the gas cap wavering the bic above it to see the level of the gas inside.....ha ha.

 

[user 53891]

That's about as lame brain as what I saw once too.I watched a kid once stall his 4 wheeler.He gets off.Looks at a couple things.Reaches in his pocket and gets out his bic lighter and removes the gas cap wavering the bic above it to see the level of the gas inside.....ha ha.

And in the future it votes OMG!!

 

[Tenmile]

I saw 2 guys trying to pull a ball with a range rod and screw puller. One of them held the rod to his stomach and pulled with the other guy pulling the rifle. The range officer stopped them. They finally got it out and yes, there was powder in it. Where’s the 2x4?