I messed up, one lucky buck!

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On saturday I managed to get a small buck in very close to my ground blind. I stuck the shotgun out the window and I had a beautiful 30yard broadside shot. I pulled the trigger and instead of recoil and a flopped over buck all I heard was "ping" and the buck ran away. I unloaded the shotgun and looked at the primer of the slug, it was lightly punched and now I know why.

Im using a remington 1100 autoloader and when I loaded it I didnt want to just hit the bolt release button because it slams foreward and makes one hell of a racket, I just lighly released it but I guess it didn't slide foreward all the way so the firing pin didn't punch the primer as well as it should have.

Very frusterating! Would have been my second buck in 2 days
 
2 bucks in 2 days.... its probably good for the moral of future hunting trips that you wernt so lucky
 
This EXACT same thing happened to a buddy of mine with his M14... He did not release the bolt & let it strip the round out of the mag & chamber the round... He made the mistake of trying to be quiet, and held onto the bolt as it stripped the round out of the mag & chambered it...

Needless to say, he DIDN'T get the deer!!! He WON'T make that mistake again!!!

Cheers
Jay
 
I had a remington 1100...had the same problem with light hits...later ended up with cyling problems...that's why I HAD a Remington 1100.
 
stuckon308 said:
I'm guessing he waited a decent amount of time. When was the last time you heard of a hang fire that waited ten minutes to pounce?
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Ya anytime I hear a click and not a bang I give that round plenty of time to go off if it feels the need to. The buck already ran away there was really no rush....

On another note im gonna be back home hunting this weekend, time for round two!
 
My hunting partner had a similar issue with his Model 88. He tried to close the action quietly. Got lined up for the shot, and it was like the safety was on. He had to cycle the action to get it to fire.
 
You can't treat a remington pump/semi gently. I have to pump a 760 hard to get a round chambered properly. I gave up trying to be quiet after the second FTF and resulting view of the south end of a north bound deer.
 
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