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Muzzleloader Hunting
Another blown up muzzleloader
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<blockquote data-quote="Packrat 6" data-source="post: 1025488" data-attributes="member: 80288"><p>This doesn't happen with just mix-ups in powders. about 8 years ago, when I was in OK, the family next door had a bad experience with a Damascus Barrel shotgun where the 2 older boys were going to the range and their 14 year old sister wanted to go. </p><p></p><p>Apparently she grabbed her great-grandfathers old Damascus barrel shotgun off of the rack and at the range loaded a new high power round into it. The barrel exploded about 3" in front of the receiver and peppered her face with fragments, just missing her eyes. Apparently within the coils of the barrel a rust pocket had been created between the coils and over the years had rusted out. None of this was visible from the outside. She got off lucky, but the facial scarring was pretty bad and she has had to have plastic surgery 3-4 times and her dad's insurance wouldn't pay for additional cosmetic surgery, even though it was related to the accident. **** cheap insurance company. She is slowly coming back and is now back to being a cutie, but all this was so unnecessary.</p><p></p><p>Gun had been tagged "do not shoot", but tag fell off somewhere. This is one of the reasons I won't have a non-shootable weapon around unless I drill and install a blind drift through the chamber from underneath so it can't be loaded. Don't want one of my ancestors or kids grabbing it up and trying to shoot it 20 years from now.</p><p></p><p>For what it is worth.</p><p></p><p>Packrat</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]42102[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Packrat 6, post: 1025488, member: 80288"] This doesn't happen with just mix-ups in powders. about 8 years ago, when I was in OK, the family next door had a bad experience with a Damascus Barrel shotgun where the 2 older boys were going to the range and their 14 year old sister wanted to go. Apparently she grabbed her great-grandfathers old Damascus barrel shotgun off of the rack and at the range loaded a new high power round into it. The barrel exploded about 3" in front of the receiver and peppered her face with fragments, just missing her eyes. Apparently within the coils of the barrel a rust pocket had been created between the coils and over the years had rusted out. None of this was visible from the outside. She got off lucky, but the facial scarring was pretty bad and she has had to have plastic surgery 3-4 times and her dad's insurance wouldn't pay for additional cosmetic surgery, even though it was related to the accident. **** cheap insurance company. She is slowly coming back and is now back to being a cutie, but all this was so unnecessary. Gun had been tagged "do not shoot", but tag fell off somewhere. This is one of the reasons I won't have a non-shootable weapon around unless I drill and install a blind drift through the chamber from underneath so it can't be loaded. Don't want one of my ancestors or kids grabbing it up and trying to shoot it 20 years from now. For what it is worth. Packrat [ATTACH]42102.vB[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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