-
Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.
We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.
Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103
What is flying back at me?
- Thread starter wpjson
- Start date
Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:
hawk driver
36 Cal.
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2010
- Messages
- 56
- Reaction score
- 1
I first got into black powder at Ft Lewis, WA. I was out shooting on the range on post one day, .54 and my revolver. The range used to get all of the old bowling pins from the alley on post, and folks would set them up on specially made frames and knock em down. Sooo, my buddy and I figured we would do the same with our BP revolvers. I was loaded and my buddy was now empty, so I started shooting. After a couple shots, the range master comes running out of his little tin building behind the firing line, yelling for a cease fire.
He was really ****** and was wanting to know who shot thru his window. He finally calmed down, and had a chunk of lead in his hand and said it came thru the window and bounced off of the wall. It looked like a slightly flattened out .451 ball.
We walked down and looked at the pins I had knocked over, and one of them had a depression at the thin point of the neck. Got an unfired ball, and it fit right in the depression.
Bullets do weird things.
He was really ****** and was wanting to know who shot thru his window. He finally calmed down, and had a chunk of lead in his hand and said it came thru the window and bounced off of the wall. It looked like a slightly flattened out .451 ball.
We walked down and looked at the pins I had knocked over, and one of them had a depression at the thin point of the neck. Got an unfired ball, and it fit right in the depression.
Bullets do weird things.
Back in the 90's when we could own and shoot cartridge pistols here in the UK, a shooter at our local indoor range had a Webley Mk6 in .455. His home loads were so weak that they often wouldn't penetrate the Linatex curtain hanging in front of the back-stop. Result was the occasional bullet would come flying back and boy, did they hurt if they caught you??
Despite being told he would be excluded from the range if he didn't work on a safer load the problem persisted until one day he had a bullet lodge in the barrel, result was a missing top-strap and a one Webley Mk6 reduced to scrap. Thankfully nobody was injured and even more thankfully, the Webley was the only handgun he owned.
Despite being told he would be excluded from the range if he didn't work on a safer load the problem persisted until one day he had a bullet lodge in the barrel, result was a missing top-strap and a one Webley Mk6 reduced to scrap. Thankfully nobody was injured and even more thankfully, the Webley was the only handgun he owned.
