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Hangfire have you ever had one how did it work out for you let's here some story's

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wolc123 Grand Master

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It happened to me about 25 years ago, back before in-lines and scopes were legal. It was near dusk on the last day and a fat grey squirrel showed up at the wrong place at the wrong time.  I aimed for his head and pulled the trigger of my old 50 caliber side-lock,  The cap went off and there was about a 2 second delay.  I continued to hold in place until the charge went off, neatly decapitating him. 

 I never did get a deer with that gun.  The following season, again on the last day, a heavy buck walked directly under my stand.  He had already dropped one antler and had 4 points on his remaining side.  I squeezed the trigger as he was quartering away, and this time only the cap went off.   He looked up at the "crack" and just kept on walking.   By the time I got another cap on, he was out of range.   It took two more to get the charge to ignite.   I later seemed to correct the problems with that gun by priming the channel behind the nipple with a little powder.   I never fired it at another deer though. 

The inline that I use now has corrected the issue, and killed the deer every time I pulled the trigger.  My own piss-poor tracking prevented the recovery of one of those however.   I learned my most important lesson the hard way on that one:  Assume that every shot is a hit until PROVEN otherwise.  That was the last deer that I shot at and lost with any weapon.   Some say that my luck will run out some day.  I won't believe that until I see it, because I know that luck has nothing to do with it.  

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3 hours ago, wolc123 said:

How do you know that "He" is not a "She" ?

I think your thinking of stormy Daniels  lol 

Wolf  

It is just a random user name  wolf  .  It has know meaning . Like abc or 123 

Or did you get confused and think you where texting  on pornhub  for  stormy Daniel's Maybe :)  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I have had a few misfires, to date, only with .22 ammo.

I only one hang fire from a Remington 7400 BDL Deluxe in .30-06 that I got from an auction when I was 21/22 . Bought it, dropped some glass on it and had it bore sighted ( I don't remember what the scope was ), and hit the range. First shot fired. Second "click", lifted my head and "Boom". Took the mag out. Gathered myself, and headed to my local gunsmith. More money to fix then I paid at auction, and actually got more for trade in then I paid at auction.

I really wish I had pics, but over 20 years ago we didn't take pics of every thing we did.

 

I just hope people realize there's a big difference from a "Mis-Fire" and a "Hang-Fire".

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wolc123 Grand Master

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I have a good misfire story:

A couple of my buddies (brothers) and I were grouse hunting one time and the younger brother shot at one, down in a creek-bottom.    He claimed to see it hit the ground, but was not able to find it.   We walked a long way down that creek bottom, then turned around and walked back towards the truck, after switching sides.   When I got back to the spot where he had shot, I noticed the dead grouse laying below a bush.   I aimed my shotgun is a safe direction and fired a shot.  It sounded like only the primer and a little powder went off, and the load just made it out of the barrel.  The noise was not enough for the brothers to hear over on the other side of the creek.   I fired off the other barrel of my side-by-side 16 ga, which went off fine.

I yelled across to the brothers:  This is how you do it, you see it hit the ground and then you walk over to that spot and pick it up.  He had shot a jack-rabbit on that hunt, which tasted pretty bad.  I did share some of that delicious grouse with him.   When we finished eating, I told him the whole truth.   I would have told him prior, but I was not sure if he would have shared.   

I have also had a couple of misfires with factory loads while shooting trap.  I always carried a few extra shells in my jacket for when that occurred.          

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