Bulges are about always caused by some foreign object in the bore when fired.





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Thank you. That is what I thought. Paying attention to Drew Hause's material says the same thing but just making sure.

Personally I am paranoid and a stickler about muzzles and cleared bores. Never had an issue but most of the time I will make it a point to take a peek down the bores. I see people all the time at ranges resting guns on top of their shoes with open breeches. Its just a bad practice and example. Just waiting for the time when someone carelessly not thinking does it with a loaded gun and closed breech that has a manual safety that blows their foot off.

That happened to a national Skeet Champion

Really. Wow had not heard that, not surprised though. Pure and simple careless complacency even from people that know better probably causes more accidents and deaths in just about everything.

I've never gotten an "official" description of what happened, but I have heard that he was shooting a gun with a removable trigger group, and that that design was "touchy". As he closed the gun with the muzzle still on his toe, the gun discharged

"1. ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction. This is the primary rule of gun safety. A safe direction means that the gun is pointed so that even if it were to go off it would not cause injury or damage. The key to this rule is to control where the muzzle or front end of the barrel is pointed at all times. Common sense dictates the safest direction, depending on different circumstances."

Before I discovered PGCA many years back I removed a few dents from a VH. There was a small crack at the muzzle so I had the barrels trimmed. Then I learned about all that can be done with barrels. I still have the VH and regret to this day that the barrels were cut. Too soon old. Too late smart. Jack