I confess = I did "it".

[Akita1]

Echo a few of the above. I take 5 or 6 calibers at a time, but the ammo never comes out of the bag until I pick up the corresponding equipment. Shoot all the particular ammo, then on to the next one up…start with 22, on to 380, then 9, then 357, then 40, then 45 (that's where it ends for me).

Yes, a bit anal but it works for me. Just been lucky I guess (OK, I don't believe in luck).

BTW, 66 is a VERY good year (not for me just yet, but a close friend 20 years my senior who teaches me a new trick/mistake every time I see him at the range).

 

[sfhogman]

Yup.
Shot a .40 out of my Springfield 1911. Foop! No damage done. Keyholed the target at 10 yards and lesson learned.
My own damn load, too.

Jeff

 

[MFH]

7mm rem will readily fire in a 338 win. Even hit the target. Brass fire formed and was reloadable.

MFH

 

[luzyfuerza]

I watched a kid chamber a 20 gauge shell in a 12 gauge pump once...caught the error and fixed things pretty quickly. Now, no matter the group, its either all 20s or all 12s. I don't want that to ever happen again.

 

[230RN]

I live in dread of somehow accidentally putting a 5.56 NATO cartridge in my supremely accurate antique one-bolt-lug Savage in .223 Remington. I doubt that it would actually take that old gun apart, but it would surely overstress it to some extent.

When I bought that rifle in about 1975 I figured I could always get brass for it since it was a military round.

Then the dumb military finally figured out that the .223 wasn't powerful enough for a lot of battle situations and souped it up with heavier bullets, a thicker case, and much higher pressures.

So I can't use modern military NATO cartridges in my ancient Savage anymore, and I can no longer use brass picked up at the range, since it might have those thicker-walled ( which means less case capacity) cases.

Ticked me off no end when they changed the .223 Remington loading to the high-pressure, heavy-bullet, long-leade-required 5.56 NATO loading, and I won't have any 5.56 NATO ammo in the house to avoid the possibility a mixup, except for the XM193 load, which is the same as the old .223 Remington.

Drat.

Terry, 230RN

 

[Deltaboy1984]

I was at an indoor range today to ring out my XDs that came back from Springfield.

I thought it would be fun to T&E a few other pistols and a new Winchester 30-30 Trapper that I just got.

So I took a total of 5 handguns to the range,calibers ranging from .22 mag / 9 MM / .40 S&W / .45 ACP .

I was shooting well and decided to give the XDs a rest,started shooting the G-23 & 27.

Then I went back to the XDs and had a blown out case,and then another one.

YES,it was the dummy with the FORTY IN THE FORTY FIVE error.

I put 2 rounds of .40 S&W into the XDs and they fired and the case was blown out [ not cracked ].

I had one of "THOSE" moments.

I will NEVER put different ammunition on the bench again.

It happens to best of us unless you limit you self to gun with dissimilar rounds like a 22 and a 45 or a 45 and a 357.

 

[Legionnaire]

I did this once, many years ago. .357 mag cartridge in a .41 mag Blackhawk. Thought I had a squib until I saw the case ... split almost it's entire length. Lesson learned.

 

[au01st]

Gun range I started going to here only allows one caliber at the line at a time. I guess now I know why.

 

[xfyrfiter]

When I see these threads I think "There but for the grace of God go I" it can happen to even the most careful of us.

 

[lightning]

I came close yesterday but a 22/45 mag doesn't fit in a Sig P220 very well.

 

[DT Guy]

I haven't done it (yet!) but recently starting buying Midway's pistol cases for range use. Each holds the pistol, it's magazines (which can be just as confusing as the ammo) and 5-6 boxes of ammo.

Makes it easy to put one gun/mags/ammo combo on the bench at a time, and hopefully prevent my colander-like head from doing something similar.





On sale, they can get down around $8 each or so.

Larry

 

[arizona98tj]

Well over 30 years ago, I was on the firing line when another shooter managed to light off a .308 Win cartridge in his .25-06 Ruger #1. (he had a pair of them in those two calibers) I noticed the huge fireball engulfing the action about the same time I heard the kaboom. Wood on both ends of the Ruger splintered. Parts of the falling block were blown down into the shooting bench along with a portion of the chamber. The scope hit the shooter's head so hard it dislodged the glass from the rear of the scope. It knocked the shooter down to the ground with one heck of a scope kiss over his eye. (it bled very well to say the least) He was a little groggy for a minute or two. Amazingly, the .308 bullet cleared the bore.