What are the chances???

Pa SxS · 05-24-2021, 10:16 AM

I was at our local gun club early this weekend before actual shooting would start. We were talking in small groups in the parking lot when I heard a shot going off. I figured someone was testing his gun or shell. Turns out one guy dropped a shell on the gravel/stone parking lot and the shell went off. Luckily he wasn't hurt, just stung by the powder and shot. Nothing visible on his body. I've never heard of this happening before. The shell must have landed perfectly with the primer hitting the point of a stone. Look at the primer indentation.

OH Osthaus · 05-24-2021, 10:21 AM

wow

very freak accident

fortunately - without a chamber to contain and direct the pressure and load it would be mostly a large firecracker

I remember years ago reading about a photographer for an outdoor magazine who unloaded a rifle and dropped the rounds (small cal if I remember right) into the pocket of his down coat before going in a diner. as he sat on a stool eating his lunch there was a loud bang and a cloud of feathers - turned out a round had contacted across a spare camera battery's terminals and cooked off - the brass split but the bullet had no velocity

Mills · 05-24-2021, 12:01 PM

Yikes!

Dean Romig · 05-24-2021, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck Bishop

I was at our local gun club early this weekend before actual shooting would start. We were talking in small groups in the parking lot when I heard a shot going off. I figured someone was testing his gun or shell. Turns out one guy dropped a shell on the gravel/stone parking lot and the shell went off. Luckily he wasn't hurt, just stung by the powder and shot. Nothing visible on his body. I've never heard of this happening before. The shell must have landed perfectly with the primer hitting the point of a stone. Look at the primer indentation.

There it is right there - the thing that makes me cringe and hunch my shoulders any time I or someone near me accidentally drops a live shell. People say "Don't worry, that could never happen!" Yeah, Right!

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Jerry Parise · 05-25-2021, 12:44 PM

That's amazing! I wonder what the mathematical probability of that happening is. Glad no one was hurt.

Harry Gietler · 05-25-2021, 03:27 PM

I have seen more than MY share of Guys unload Ithaca pumps by pumping them, the shells flying thru the air and hitting the ground. Lucky none had hit the primmer on a sharp edge!

Harry