Remington1911
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I am going to post my stories then go back and read what others have written.
I had some planned back surgery a while back, was to knock me off my feet for a week or two, well a year or two later I feel like doing something again. I had a feeling going in this was going to be rough so I got guns cleaned (I usually don't clean after every outing) and checked and lubed the different guns that "lay around the house". In their prep I coated some Ballastol on an old police positive and stuck it in its little hidie hole. Forgetting it was there I stumble across it many moons later, and it is still just as slimy as it was the day I stuck it in the closet. I go to take it out to shoot it. BANG, bang, pfffft. Hmm that ain't right. Bullet got stuck about 1/4" into the barrel, glad it made it that far, opening the gun up would have been a struggle. What the hell just happened. I open the gun, the cases that have been fired are greasy from the ballastol, as well as the three unfired. Pulling down the bullets and the powder inside is just like tar, I crimp as well, so hmmm....that Ballastol made it into the case and killed the powder. I put the cases back in the gun after having been dumped and pop the last three primers. Had to drill the bullet out of the barrel, not hard a simple jig and lead is real soft.
Had a buddy out plinking and I look over and he is fighting his gun, does not want to go into battery.....good guy but not really a "gun guy". Let me see that something is sideways, sure enough squib, not in far enough to let that next round chamber. Gave him a little lesson on you need to keep in the back of your mind to watch for bullet impact. Now in his defense the berm we shoot into is pretty grassy and unless you hit a plate (something he does not do with much regularity) you are likely to not see an impact. Just knocked that out with a rod, and gave it to him as a reminder that he could have been really hurt.
I had some planned back surgery a while back, was to knock me off my feet for a week or two, well a year or two later I feel like doing something again. I had a feeling going in this was going to be rough so I got guns cleaned (I usually don't clean after every outing) and checked and lubed the different guns that "lay around the house". In their prep I coated some Ballastol on an old police positive and stuck it in its little hidie hole. Forgetting it was there I stumble across it many moons later, and it is still just as slimy as it was the day I stuck it in the closet. I go to take it out to shoot it. BANG, bang, pfffft. Hmm that ain't right. Bullet got stuck about 1/4" into the barrel, glad it made it that far, opening the gun up would have been a struggle. What the hell just happened. I open the gun, the cases that have been fired are greasy from the ballastol, as well as the three unfired. Pulling down the bullets and the powder inside is just like tar, I crimp as well, so hmmm....that Ballastol made it into the case and killed the powder. I put the cases back in the gun after having been dumped and pop the last three primers. Had to drill the bullet out of the barrel, not hard a simple jig and lead is real soft.
Had a buddy out plinking and I look over and he is fighting his gun, does not want to go into battery.....good guy but not really a "gun guy". Let me see that something is sideways, sure enough squib, not in far enough to let that next round chamber. Gave him a little lesson on you need to keep in the back of your mind to watch for bullet impact. Now in his defense the berm we shoot into is pretty grassy and unless you hit a plate (something he does not do with much regularity) you are likely to not see an impact. Just knocked that out with a rod, and gave it to him as a reminder that he could have been really hurt.