dscottdennison
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I hate to even post this, because I am just now getting over it and this will only make me continue to replay the situation, but I do need to vent. This will be long, but stay with me.
Unfortunately, I do not have much choice in private places to stretch the legs of my latest long range rifle build, so this weekend I was forced to take it to Knob Creek for initial sight in and the beginnings of load development. The first real group I fired out of the rifle after sight in was under 1/2 MOA. This was just about the only good news of my day.
For one of my groups that I was shooting for fun, I was going for 5 shots, but I had only fired 3. I had loaded the 4th round and was just beginning to squeeze when the horn blew for clear
so then I had to unload the round. Well, I loaded these to jam pretty good into the rifling, and I do not crimp them, so of course the case pulled off of the bullet, leaving it barely stuck in the throat. No big deal, right? Wrong.
To be safe, once the range went hot again I told the RO what was going on and that I was going to tap the bullet out. He had no idea what I was talking about, and originally thought that I had a live round stuck in my rifle somehow. Anyway, I explained to him numerous times what the real problem was, but he still never understood. Once I thought he finally knew what I was talking about, he took my rod that I was going to use to tap the bullet out and stuck it in the barrel. I thought, alright good you can tap it out. Well, all he was doing was measuring where the bullet was because he still did not know what I meant and thought I had some kind of squib round stuck half way in my barrel. He then said, "Oh, are these hand loads?", thinking that I am a dumbass and don't know how to hand load and therefore it surely must be a squib round. So he grabs my rifle like it is his and barks at me to follow him inside. This is where the fun begins.
He then hands my rifle to "Billy Bob" the "gunsmith" and simply says, "There's a bullet stuck in here." So of course the "gunsmith" now thinks the same thing, that some dumbass has had a dud round get stuck half way down his barrel. Before I realize what he is doing, he has an aluminum rod stuck in the receiver end of my brand new custom rifle and is trying to HAMMER the bullet all the way out the barrel...
By the time I realize and I am about to rip his head off, he has hammered enough to bend the rod and slightly flatten the end of it, hopefully only on the end of the stuck bullet.
Once I yell at him, he says, "Well, alright I'll try from the muzzle end." In a way that is like "this will never work, dumbass." Of course with a few light taps the bullet drops out. Through the course of all of this happening, I must have been in a state of shock... I have no idea why I didn't yell at the RO initially and just tap it out myself. I guess I was trying to be safe and follow their rules. I have no idea. I obviously didn't know how stupid they all were until he started hammering on it... wow. Luckily it was an aluminum rod and the bullet was protecting the throat and neck area, so it did not hurt the stainless barrel. I even emailed Greg Young, who chambered and threaded the Obermeyer barrel for me, to make sure he thought everything was alright. I don't think I have ever been so angry in my life. Then, to top it all off, I was not able to pick up a new pistol this weekend because the shippers got my name wrong. Life is against me.
Unfortunately, I do not have much choice in private places to stretch the legs of my latest long range rifle build, so this weekend I was forced to take it to Knob Creek for initial sight in and the beginnings of load development. The first real group I fired out of the rifle after sight in was under 1/2 MOA. This was just about the only good news of my day.
For one of my groups that I was shooting for fun, I was going for 5 shots, but I had only fired 3. I had loaded the 4th round and was just beginning to squeeze when the horn blew for clear
so then I had to unload the round. Well, I loaded these to jam pretty good into the rifling, and I do not crimp them, so of course the case pulled off of the bullet, leaving it barely stuck in the throat. No big deal, right? Wrong.To be safe, once the range went hot again I told the RO what was going on and that I was going to tap the bullet out. He had no idea what I was talking about, and originally thought that I had a live round stuck in my rifle somehow. Anyway, I explained to him numerous times what the real problem was, but he still never understood. Once I thought he finally knew what I was talking about, he took my rod that I was going to use to tap the bullet out and stuck it in the barrel. I thought, alright good you can tap it out. Well, all he was doing was measuring where the bullet was because he still did not know what I meant and thought I had some kind of squib round stuck half way in my barrel. He then said, "Oh, are these hand loads?", thinking that I am a dumbass and don't know how to hand load and therefore it surely must be a squib round. So he grabs my rifle like it is his and barks at me to follow him inside. This is where the fun begins.
He then hands my rifle to "Billy Bob" the "gunsmith" and simply says, "There's a bullet stuck in here." So of course the "gunsmith" now thinks the same thing, that some dumbass has had a dud round get stuck half way down his barrel. Before I realize what he is doing, he has an aluminum rod stuck in the receiver end of my brand new custom rifle and is trying to HAMMER the bullet all the way out the barrel...
By the time I realize and I am about to rip his head off, he has hammered enough to bend the rod and slightly flatten the end of it, hopefully only on the end of the stuck bullet. Once I yell at him, he says, "Well, alright I'll try from the muzzle end." In a way that is like "this will never work, dumbass." Of course with a few light taps the bullet drops out. Through the course of all of this happening, I must have been in a state of shock... I have no idea why I didn't yell at the RO initially and just tap it out myself. I guess I was trying to be safe and follow their rules. I have no idea. I obviously didn't know how stupid they all were until he started hammering on it... wow. Luckily it was an aluminum rod and the bullet was protecting the throat and neck area, so it did not hurt the stainless barrel. I even emailed Greg Young, who chambered and threaded the Obermeyer barrel for me, to make sure he thought everything was alright. I don't think I have ever been so angry in my life. Then, to top it all off, I was not able to pick up a new pistol this weekend because the shippers got my name wrong. Life is against me.
