7.62x51NATO
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- Dec 18, 2011
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While at the range yesterday, I was with a friend shooting at a 600 yard gong. We were alternating between firing and spotting for each other. I was shooting my Savage 11 .308 with 175 SMK handloads and hitting fairly well. My friend, however, was having some difficulty with his mosin this particular day (usually he hits the 10 inch going almost as consistently as my Savage). He took a shot..*Hit!* I call out. I look over at him and notice he had trouble ejecting the round from the chamber, so I went over to help. After we got the casing out, I looked at it and my jaw hit the floor. It was a 7mm-08 casing!! Loaded with a 7mm bullet for his other rifle ! He accidentally took a round out of his 7mm ammo holder instead of his Mosin's! Two things strike me as incredible here. First, that he HIT the thing with a very undersized bullet for the barrel diameter and second that something very bad didn't happen. Is this just a one in a million chance of actually hitting something THAT far away with an undersized bullet in a different casing altogether? *Note* My friend realized that this was a very stupid mistake and he swore he would never do it again.