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Muzzleloader Hunting
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 868863" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>I have a buddy that loaned one of his MLs to a friend to hunt with. When the friend brought it back he told my friend that he had clean it up and it was ready to store. Two years latter another friend came to ML hunt for deer with my friend and had trouble with his rifle. My friend went in a got that ML that had been stored for two years for him to use. They went into his reloading room to get powder and bullets so they could go out back and shoot to see if the scope was still zeroed. My buddy told his friend to go ahead and pop a cap to make sure that the nipple was clear. He pointed it at a small piece of paper he placed on the concrete floor so when the cap popped he could see it move and be sure the nipple was clear. When the guy pulled the trigger BOOOOOOM. They were both frozen in place and when the smoke and concrete dust settled the friend that had been a USMC hairier pilot for 20 years and was about deaf yelled out. That was the loudest D*M cap I ever heard. Nobody was hurt thank goodness. The load was two 50 gr 777 pellets and a 250 gr shockwave. Left a nice little divot in the concrete though. </p><p></p><p>I also saw a guy at the range go to pop a cap on his ML before loading it and it went BOOM and blew a salt treated 4x4 post that helped support the roof over the shooting tables in two. Those CVA powderbelts pace a punch.</p><p></p><p>Double check those ML to make sure they are unloaded.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 868863, member: 10178"] I have a buddy that loaned one of his MLs to a friend to hunt with. When the friend brought it back he told my friend that he had clean it up and it was ready to store. Two years latter another friend came to ML hunt for deer with my friend and had trouble with his rifle. My friend went in a got that ML that had been stored for two years for him to use. They went into his reloading room to get powder and bullets so they could go out back and shoot to see if the scope was still zeroed. My buddy told his friend to go ahead and pop a cap to make sure that the nipple was clear. He pointed it at a small piece of paper he placed on the concrete floor so when the cap popped he could see it move and be sure the nipple was clear. When the guy pulled the trigger BOOOOOOM. They were both frozen in place and when the smoke and concrete dust settled the friend that had been a USMC hairier pilot for 20 years and was about deaf yelled out. That was the loudest D*M cap I ever heard. Nobody was hurt thank goodness. The load was two 50 gr 777 pellets and a 250 gr shockwave. Left a nice little divot in the concrete though. I also saw a guy at the range go to pop a cap on his ML before loading it and it went BOOM and blew a salt treated 4x4 post that helped support the roof over the shooting tables in two. Those CVA powderbelts pace a punch. Double check those ML to make sure they are unloaded. [/QUOTE]
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