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Junction, Texas. Monarch migration. Took some bow hunters to Junction, always opens before gun season.
Must have been millions on butterflies passing through. Quite a sight.
 
years a go during goose season here a flock would fly over my house low every evening. I put a shotgun by the back door.

I heard them honking flying over the ridge,they came down low between house and garage.

boom! goose folded instantly,then I realized it was headed right for my gfrens truck. big dent in hood,blood spatter all over. I was in doghouse awhile
 
I was on a pheasant shoot a couple of years ago, the birds were a bit scarce, so my friend was very keen when a pair of high birds came clattering out of the woods, high and fast. His first shot took one and it started to fall, he moved on to the second was about to shoot when the first bird hit him full pelt on the side of the head, knocking him to the ground. He missed the second bird by a country mile and luckily his shot went nowhere near anyone. The blood and feathers took a while to wash off his neck, mostly because everyone was laughing so hard!
 
I was pheasant hunting one time with a friend and his dog. Dog goes on point, we flush the bird, and I take the shot with a full choke 12 gauge. Unfortunately, it was a relatively close shot, and the shot column hit dead center and really tore the bird apart. I could see things dangling from it before it hit the ground.

The dog went to get it, sniffed it, then turned around and scratched dirt onto it. lol

Another time were hunting with the dog and saw some hunters quite a ways ahead of us, and heard a shot. We continued walking in the same direction, and after a while, the dog goes on point next to a small pine tree. We look at each other, but kick the tree and nothing happens. We start to walk on, but the dog stays at the tree. We go back and start pulling the branches apart, and sure enough, there's a warm dead pheasant. The hunters before us must have hit it and it glided into the tree and died.
 
I had written this on another thread, but I think it's worth another look:

We were doing some outside remodeling on a cousin's house when we saw a strange sight - a Sheriff car on our gravel road, followed by a blacked-out SUV, followed by another Sheriff's car. Driving slowly. They stopped in the middle of the road at the top of the hill. Right at the old (anti-Obama) neighbor's farm house. The cars' occupants got out and went into the house. About an hour later, they came back out, got into their cars, and turned around. The deputies continued on past us, but the SUV stopped. Out stepped a Secret Service agent! He asked us if we knew the old guy and if we thought that he was a threat to the President. Did what??? YGBSM!!! Well, the old guy had sent an e-mail to the White House saying that he likes to dry fire his pistol at the President's image when he's watching CNN.
 
LoneGoose said:
I had written this on another thread, but I think it's worth another look:

We were doing some outside remodeling on a cousin's house when we saw a strange sight - a Sheriff car on our gravel road, followed by a blacked-out SUV, followed by another Sheriff's car. Driving slowly. They stopped in the middle of the road at the top of the hill. Right at the old (anti-Obama) neighbor's farm house. The cars' occupants got out and went into the house. About an hour later, they came back out, got into their cars, and turned around. The deputies continued on past us, but the SUV stopped. Out stepped a Secret Service agent! He asked us if we knew the old guy and if we thought that he was a threat to the President. Did what??? YGBSM!!! Well, the old guy had sent an e-mail to the White House saying that he likes to dry fire his pistol at the President's image when he's watching CNN.
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He wasn't worth breaking a perfectly good firing pin over.
 
I suppose buying one of those Franklin Mint plates with his picture on it and using it for target practice would be a big no-no as well. Not that anyone I know ever did that.

Back to weird gun stories, my parents had some semi-feral cats on their property they put food out for. A couple of possums killed one of the cats and set up residence in the garage so Dad decides to shoot them. First one he kills with a 22lr. But It is his last round of 22lr in the house (who lets that happen?). So he gets his Savage 99 in 300 Savage and shoots the second possum. Unfortunately the bullet passes completely through the possum, hits the concrete floor, divots the floor, and ricochets up through the roof of the garage, leaving a hole he then has to patch.
 
I've heard a few too many of those weird gun stories concerning firearms to deal with critters that move into a garage or storage shed and they usually don't end well. So about 15 years ago a neighbor had a raccoon family move into a storage shed built onto the side of their house. Ideas were tossed around including shooting them and I suggested a non-firearm, non-poison, solution of putting a radio out in the shed and leaving it on constantly. It worked........ Only took a day or so and momma raccoon was seen in broad daylight moving the young ones over to the nearby woods one by one to their new home. I guess they didn't like talk radio, LOL.
 
Back about 1983 or 1984 I had range safety officer duty at the Redwood Gun Club rifle range near Eureka, CA. The range officer was supposed to carry a loaded handgun. I was carrying my dad's new S&W 469. I had never fired it and planned to try it out at the end of the day.
Just before closing time a couple of guys were shooting from the bench at a 6" gong hanging at the 100 yard line without any success. I stood by and watched a while then asked them which gong they were shooting. They told me and I drew the little Smith, thumbed the hammer back and touched off a round one-handed at the gong. The clang signaled a center hit by the 9mm bullet. I safed the gun and put it back in the holster and walked away.
Many years later, after my dad passed, the California Highway Patrol called to tell my mom they had dad's old 469. I contacted CHP and got the gun back and own it to this day. I have not tried it on anymore 100 yard gongs though.
 
Here's mine,

This did not happen to me but I witnessed this in person. I spent time as a guard in the Marine Corps. I cannot say where unfortunately but we got a lot of range time with our Berreta 9mm and 12g Mossberg 590s. We would devote whole training weeks to shotgun and pistol shooting.

Ending one particular week we were working on our shotgun in the kneeling position. Mind you we had been shooting our shotguns most of the day with no issues. With 7 or so of us on the firing line shooting the 590s kneeling my buddies blew up. Forward of the chamber maybe 5 or 6 inches the barrel banana peeled for about two inches, like a bulge, not to the end. But clearly banana peeled. It blew the heat shield off and into the woods. We did not find it.

Odd thing is that wasn't the first shot in the string. There is no way there was an obstruction. He is and was just fine. In the kneeling the front hand has more of a finger tip grip thank god.

There is my non hunting related wierd gun story


I was next to an old man who blew up a 1916 Carl Gustaf Swedish Mauser. He gave me the handloads.com that were the cause as, "he had no use for them anymore". The old man's poor rounds were so overcrimped that I had an extremely hard time pulling them. I'm not much on crimping anymore. At least not a heavy crimp.
 
One of the strangest things I have ever seen was from my brothers .45. We had our targets up at the 100 yard line (neither of us is good enough to be any kind of accurate at that distance, it was pretty much a pissing match). We had attached our targets to the wood posts with masking tape. When we went down range to retrieve our targets, one of my brother's .45 slugs was stuck to a piece of tape on his target that hand peeled back. It was in pristine condition without a single scratch on it which tells me it landed on that tape and wasn't a ricochet.

I have a hard time wrapping my brain around all of the variables and improbabilities that allowed this to happen but it was kind of cool.
 
Had a girlfriend a few years ago that I was teaching to shoot with an old Arminius 22 revolver that my grandfather had passed to me after he died. I'll save all the lessons taught before an actual round was loaded to save time. But one lesson was how to look down the barrel and use the front sight. Well, it's finally time to put a round in the cylinger. I have a fresh silhouette target at 25 yards set up (for me mainly) and she raises the pistol. Told her to aim at the center of the target. It's obvious she isn't looking down the barrel or using the sight. But I can see her barrel isn't pointed high enough to shoot over the 15' berm and height wise it's level with the target so I figure what the heck. She pulls the trigger. "Pop". I'm smiling because she did it. But I know she didn't hit anything. And that's ok. So I ask if she wants to go see how she did. She did. We walk up there and she had shot the "0" signifying the 10 ring. Ok? Luck? Im a little perplexed but I express my joy and proudness in her. I have her go back and try again. Told her to shoot at the same spot again. Load two rounds this time, she takes "aim" and pulls the trigger. "Pop"......."Pop". We walk up and.....(You gotta be kidding me) she had literally cloverleafed her first shot.I couldn't shoot that good on my best day. She spent the rest of the day kicking my butt on the range. And never once used the sights. Most natural pointing ability I've ever seen in my life.
 
Glockula said:
Here's mine,

...With 7 or so of us on the firing line shooting the 590s kneeling my buddies blew up. Forward of the chamber maybe 5 or 6 inches the barrel banana peeled for about two inches, like a bulge, not to the end. But clearly banana peeled. It blew the heat shield off and into the woods. We did not find it.

Odd thing is that wasn't the first shot in the string. There is no way there was an obstruction...
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Well, I know that artillery pieces can blow up if underloaded with powder. The shell accelerates too slowly and thus the barrel has to deal with pressure for too long.

Also, I know that one of the CIA's dirty tricks is to inject ammo loaded with explosives into the enemy's supply lines. Then tehy can be firing away when all of a sudden they blow up.

Both are unlikely but they are all that I can think of. :confused:
 
Squib, I have seen a barrel ringed and swelled from a birdshot load stopping half way out. I bet a heavy buckshot or slug load hitting a stuck load would burst it easily.

I remember being told my grandfather was afraid of something being in the barrel of his shotgun so he always plugged it with a rag.
Eventually the barrel would get too short and he had to buy a new one.
 
One day my grandmother called me and said she had a young raccoon in her pantry.
I was young and strong and overconfident, so I grabbed my welding gloves and drove over to her old farmhouse. I found the not-so-young raccoon hiding it's face in the corner of the pantry where it had fallen through the ceiling tiles.
I propped the back door open and approached Mr coon armed with my welding gloves. My intent was to grab him by the neck and tail and haul him outside asap. The raccoon had other ideas. What unfolded next was not pretty. I think my poor grandma heard her grandson say some words she had not heard before. I started out trying to catch him, but I ended up trying to let him go. The varmint scrambled through the house and wound up in the the bathroom inside the shower stall and literally destroyed it. I pulled the door shut and went for the .22. When I got back the critter had gotten his claws behind one of the panels of the shower stall and was half in and half out of the shower wall when I sent him to the great sweet corn patch in the sky. In the process of dying from a head shot the masked intruder left me with a glorious mess.
I had to install a new shower.
 
ridgerunner1965 said:
years a go during goose season here a flock would fly over my house low every evening. I put a shotgun by the back door.

I heard them honking flying over the ridge,they came down low between house and garage.

boom! goose folded instantly,then I realized it was headed right for my gfrens truck. big dent in hood,blood spatter all over. I was in doghouse awhile
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Should'a told her: "Phew...... The ba$**** was coming straight for your windshield, saw him at the last second and shot him right in time, if I had missed it you'd have had glass shards and goose blood all over your seats..."

Instead of sleeping in the doghouse, you'd have had a five stars treat every day for at least one day... :D
 
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BigBore44 said:
Had a girlfriend a few years ago that I was teaching to shoot with an old Arminius 22 revolver that my grandfather had passed to me after he died. I'll save all the lessons taught before an actual round was loaded to save time. But one lesson was how to look down the barrel and use the front sight. Well, it's finally time to put a round in the cylinger. I have a fresh silhouette target at 25 yards set up (for me mainly) and she raises the pistol. Told her to aim at the center of the target. It's obvious she isn't looking down the barrel or using the sight. But I can see her barrel isn't pointed high enough to shoot over the 15' berm and height wise it's level with the target so I figure what the heck. She pulls the trigger. "Pop". I'm smiling because she did it. But I know she didn't hit anything. And that's ok. So I ask if she wants to go see how she did. She did. We walk up there and she had shot the "0" signifying the 10 ring. Ok? Luck? Im a little perplexed but I express my joy and proudness in her. I have her go back and try again. Told her to shoot at the same spot again. Load two rounds this time, she takes "aim" and pulls the trigger. "Pop"......."Pop". We walk up and.....(You gotta be kidding me) she had literally cloverleafed her first shot.I couldn't shoot that good on my best day. She spent the rest of the day kicking my butt on the range. And never once used the sights. Most natural pointing ability I've ever seen in my life.
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Well, since we're all anonymous, let's just go ahead and admit that "The Girls" are usually a better natural shot than WE are, guys !!!

(Or you can keep saying, "Awh, it's just 'Beginner's Luck' ").
 
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I was told this story by a friend who was a correctional officer:

Most nights I had cell block duty, but this night I was put in a gun tower on the wall. Each gun tower had a .30-06, 12 ga. pump, .22 pump, and a revolver. So, for the first hour we tower guards talked to each other on the phone. Then things died down. About four hours into the shift, I get a phone call from a young guard who was serving his first night on tower duty. I could see his tower on the wall directly across the yard from mine, about 200 yards away.
He says, "How do you tell if a shotgun's on safe?" I thought he was just being wise and said, "Pull the trigger."
A few minutes later I see a flash from inside his tower shed. I called his tower to see iif he's okay. Long story short, he now has a hole in the ceiling, but "it's just a small hole."
I told him to call the shift sergeant and tell him what happened. Later I saw the headlights of a staff truck going by, go all the way around the wall, then turn and come back around.
The next night at roll call, everyone was talking about that one tower that had the shingles all standing up like broom straws.
 
Remembered another one....
Some years ago, one of our LGS/LGR would sponsor an action shooting league on Monday nights (when they were otherwise closed), run by two RSO volunteers. Both were veterans, NRA certified in you name it, and great all round guys. They would run the course themselves last, and their (usually winning) scores didn't count- just for fun.
So, after twenty-odd other folks have gone through their paces and tallied the results, the last RSO saddles up with his H&K P7M8, clears the first two stations, reloads (per league rules), and proceeds to the last stand- a simulated hostage taker target partially concealed behind a car door. Bang! Bang! Poooooooof!
Giant cloud of white smoke. Only two holes in the target 10 ring (but they only counted the two best for scoring.)
His last shot, and the last shot out of hundreds that night, was a squib. And he still won.
 
Thanks for the alert re : a possible "hang fire - dud" !
I intend to check out a new (to me) S&W .38 Special (5 screw- old) revolver, and was considering using some old wad cutter ammo.
I'll be looking for a squib and use extra caution.
Thanks.
 
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