Bore Obstruction--Close call

[GH-16]

I'm posting this in general discussions as a public service safety awareness about the potential for bore obstructions & how easily they can occur.

A buddy of mine had a close call yesterday while shooting sporting clays. He was shooting his 28ga reloads using his Guerini O/U and had a hull separate on his first shot on a true pair. He noticed this when only the brass & about a quarter of an inch of the hull was extracted from the bottom barrel. The rest of the hull was heat fusion stuck to the bore about two inches down the bore. It took us about a half hour using two different cleaning rods to finally get the case un-stuck from the bore, the plastic was that melted & stuck to the bore wall.

I'm just thankful that my buddy had the awareness to look down the bore when the partial case was extracted, along with being glad he wasn't shooting a semi-auto. This occurred on the first shot on a true pair, the shot sounded normal and broke the clay and this stuck case might not have been noticed before the next shot was fired with an auto-shucker.

This was close one--Please be careful out there!