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What happens When You Accidentally Shoot a Ramrod out of your gun?

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What happens when you accidently shoot a ramrod out of your gun?
Fulfilling another viewer's request and having fun doing it!


Well if you are loading it. Like my mates pall it goes right through the centre of your hand and straight through the metal roof above him. Well “jaws” a similar thing greener made a shotgun with a harpoon, But great fun to watch an arrow fly under safety conditions. Ha ha you are thinking outside the box, love that . It’s all on utube anyway
 
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Account of a man struck by a fired ramrod at the Battle of Spotsylvania: LINK TO ARTICLE

“He was hit with one of the iron ramrods, used by the infantry in those days, which some excited Confederate had neglected to remove from his rifle barrel before firing. This rammer passed through the major’s left arm and bruised his chest severely.”

It proved to be a fatal wound.
 
A guy came out to our club years ago with an original target rifle with a false muzzle. I offered to school him in how to load etc.... He managed to shoot his ramrod and the false muzzle down range. We found half of his ramrod but could not find the muzzle. He never came back. Guess he figured this wasn't his cup of tea.
 
I have never fired my ramrod (Yet!) but I have seen it happen.
In my experience, many, many bad words are said!
If this happens while shooting with friends, there will be no end of laughter, name calling and general 🐂💩 coming your way!
You will never hear the end of it, and deep down inside, you
know you deserve it!
Unless you have an extra rod of some sort, you probably done shooting for the day!👍🤣👍
 
You know when you think about it launching a ramrod is a scary thing. I had a friend that did the Gettysburg reenactment. Before the no ramrod rule. Someone launched a steel rod and it speared another reenactor in the arm. Yep scary thing. Mind what you do friends.
 
Ha! Just watching the final fight scene in "Across the Wide Missouri" when I was about ten or twelve left an impression on me that was still there when I started shooting BP twenty years later. Not saying the scene was particularly accurate (it actually might have been possible, given the proximity involved,) but it hangs there like a flashing neon sign every time I load/reload...
 
Way back in 1974 or 75 we had a live fire at a range in Ohio with our Brown Bess muskets. One of the 8th Pa. Regt. soldiers fired a steel ramrod down range. It made quite a sight as it twirled its way down range . Didn't do any good for the ramrod at all.
 
Way back in 1974 or 75 we had a live fire at a range in Ohio with our Brown Bess muskets. One of the 8th Pa. Regt. soldiers fired a steel ramrod down range. It made quite a sight as it twirled its way down range . Didn't do any good for the ramrod at all.
Did anyone yell out "white whale"? LOL
 
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