Dumb thing list loading shotgun

[MRP]

Dumb thing number 1
Loading four rounds into the magazine of my pump shotgun went to cycle a round.... won't cycle...What the....I loaded the last one or the second to last backwards. A first for me in 50 years. No problem I'll just unscrew the cap dump em out, reload.

Dumb thing number 2
To make it easier to plug and unplug the magazine to only hold two shells I push in the spring end cap in only enough to put the screw cap on not all the way to the locking catch.

Dumb thing number 3
For getting dumb thing number 2, the spring did its thing.

Dumb thing number 4.
Not pointing the gun to the ground as I unscrew the cap. Standing there like a true hick with my jaw dropping to my beer belly leaving a gap in my mouth only matched by the gap between my ears. The spring in its excitement of being free sailed like a ball hit by a Babe Ruth over some of the most nasty buckbrush.

An hour later sweating like a old truck driver I give up looking and headed home.

 

[reddog]

LMAO ,think we all have a great story on a strip down ...,870 pump while duck hunting an hour and a half from home as well as a long walk in to the marsh. Had a misfire was, handloading then and wad was stuck in the barrel, could not blow it out trying to find a stick long and straight enough was a lost cause.Bright idea one take barrel off try to shake? the wad out ,put mag cap in bib overalls pocket ,well after much consternation and shacking and blowing wahoo wad slid out. Third where did end cap go not in pocket not going to find it in 8 inches of slime oh crap well going home with gun in 2 pieces, Taking waders off back at truck what's this in my boot ,end cap ,hole in bib pocket and fell into hip boots .Another great day in the field....

 

[sillymike]

For a second, I thought we were going to talk about dumb things we reloaded in shotgun shells...

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As far loading, mostly sxs or singles... So kind of hard to mess it up.
- only dumb thing I did a few years back was grab the wrong ammo belt... Couldn't figure out how I'd miss that grouse 30 yards away... That is. Untill I realized I was shooting reloaded slugs (In my excitement I had missed the big black felt marker lines on them ) good thing I missed the bird.

 

[bdb.hunting]

For a second, I thought we were going to talk about dumb things we reloaded in shotgun shells...

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As far loading, mostly sxs or singles... So kind of hard to mess it up.
- only dumb thing I did a few years back was grab the wrong ammo belt... Couldn't figure out how I'd miss that grouse 30 yards away... That is. Untill I realized I was shooting reloaded slugs (In my excitement I had missed the big black felt marker lines on them ) good thing I missed the bird.

I would have been just as bad if you did hit it cause the poor thing would have been turned into a mist and you would be trying to figure out why the pellets grouped so tightly.

B

 

[call2arms]

For a second, I thought we were going to talk about dumb things we reloaded in shotgun shells...

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As far loading, mostly sxs or singles... So kind of hard to mess it up.
- only dumb thing I did a few years back was grab the wrong ammo belt... Couldn't figure out how I'd miss that grouse 30 yards away... That is. Untill I realized I was shooting reloaded slugs (In my excitement I had missed the big black felt marker lines on them ) good thing I missed the bird.

could have been worse. Could have been trying to shoot your slugs out into space

 

[kamlooky]

Best to go ghost mode when taking chit'part.
Sheet over yer tete and make sure it hits the floor.

Ker-twangs should be cawt by the sheet.

 

[Big Bad]

Those tube magazine springs can certainly make a leap for freedom once you uncap them.

 

[Falconflyer]

We all have our moments... some of us are just a bit more secretive about them!! Lol

 

[rembolt]

I was stripping the bolt on a winchester sxp . I launched the firing pin spring and washer across my gun room . I looked high and low for several hours with no success the next day I ordered new parts . four days later I find the spring and washer in the pocket of my shooting vest while shooting a round of skeet .

 

[Falconflyer]

I was stripping the bolt on a winchester sxp . I launched the firing pin spring and washer across my gun room . I looked high and low for several hours with no success the next day I ordered new parts . four days later I find the spring and washer in the pocket of my shooting vest while shooting a round of skeet .

Now thats funny! Lol

 

[Hmatt]

Best to go ghost mode when taking chit'part.
Sheet over yer tete and make sure it hits the floor.

Ker-twangs should be cawt by the sheet.

Lmao.

 

[Grouse Man]

I've had that happen to me in the basement workroom about 10 years ago. That spring retainer is still missing.

 

[MRP]

I've had that happen to me in the basement workroom about 10 years ago. That spring retainer is still missing.

By the expenses above they tend to go for pockets and waders. Pesky little things aren't they. ;-)

 

[Longstud]

Two four foot fluorescent lights disintegrated above my head and cascading shattered glass and white powder everywhere. Lesson learned. Oily hands make it hard to control small metal parts under spring pressure. 20 plus years ago but I’ll never forget.

 

[Big Bad]

My specialty on pumps, lasted for a couple of years, was going too fast and inserting shells in a tube magazine just fast and far enough in that they would hang up for a fraction of a second and then pop back and jam under the loading plate. Creates a very bad situation when you're trying to be tactical, but when I tried to do it for an instructor type I never could without at least a dozen tries, making them think I was a bit strange. Which is no doubt true.

 

[kamlooky]

My fruck’in thumb in the A-5 chamber with the bawrill removed.
It dint make the infamuss ker-fruck’in chang that day.
Ohhh, I shudder dem tawts of that day.

 

[Falconflyer]

My fruck’in thumb in the A-5 chamber with the bawrill removed.
It dint make the infamuss ker-fruck’in chang that day.
Ohhh, I shudder dem tawts of that day.

Haha, you got me a belly laugh there Kamlooky!

 

[Longstud]

My fruck’in thumb in the A-5 chamber with the bawrill removed.
It dint make the infamuss ker-fruck’in chang that day.
Ohhh, I shudder dem tawts of that day.

Haha don’t get your finger in the wrong place on an old browning double automatic either. You’ll be able to visibly remember that mistake!

 

[nowarningshot]

I was stripping the bolt on a winchester sxp . I launched the firing pin spring and washer across my gun room . I looked high and low for several hours with no success the next day I ordered new parts . four days later I find the spring and washer in the pocket of my shooting vest while shooting a round of skeet .

Applies to more than shotguns. The best way to find something is to buy another one. My usual thing is coming in, from a project, put my measuring tape somewhere safe. Inevitably I find an unhatched nest of measuring tapes.