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I was shooting sporting clays today and couldn't find all of my chokes. Rather than a case for just two extra chokes I was carrying them in my pants pocket. As I went to change from a mod to a skeet I happened to look in the skeet tube. There was a penny stuck about midtube in a .735 skeet tube. Interestingly enough it was a 1974 penny, a fairly new penny would barely fit in the bottom end but the older one went in easily. Of course, neither would exit the tube. It could have been a disaster of major proportions. I expect it would have destroyed my gun and maybe worse.  A word of warning...don't carry choke tubes and change in the same pocket. RD
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| Posted: Mon Aug 6th, 2007 03:46 AM |
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Interesting. And strange. If you had actually shot with that in the tube, no doubt a lot of damage would have happened and there's a good chance you would never know what had caused it. The penny could have ended up 20 yards downrange.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 7th, 2007 01:06 AM |
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45, About once a year I hear about a shotgun blowing up somewhere. Many are unexplained and blamed on reloads, loose base wads that mysteriously fall out of factory loads, rusted steel shot that's fused into a lump, "detonation" (whatever the hell that is), delayed ignition when the primer blows the load out of the hull before the powder is ignited etc., etc. I wonder what I would have blamed mine on had it blown up and the penny had disappeared as likely would have happened. I was shooting factory loads, a rarity for me but all I had loaded up were 7/8 Skeet loads, Remington Gun Club 1 1/8 in my Winchester Supreme and had already run 75 rounds through it that morning. I wonder what strange coincidences might have caused some of the others I've heard of that blew up. RD
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| Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2007 12:43 AM |
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Anytime a gun blows up, there are as many theories why as there are witnesses to the event. By the end of the day, at least three of those theories are elevated to "Proven Fact". When I shot competativly at Trap, thousands of rounds a year, I would once in a while get a shell that sounded "off". I'd always blame it on the fact that I didn't pull the trigger hard enough.
"detonation" (whatever the hell that is),
I've seen several explanations of that, by "experts". None of them agree.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2007 03:06 PM |
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Several years ago I was shooting trap at another club on a hot day, my shells were in a barrel in the sun and were warm to the touch.The shotgun was a 12g semiauto Mossberg 9200 with a steel barrel & a thin aluminum receiver designed for up to 3 inch mag shells,I was using Win AA 2 3/4 inch reloads with win 540 that I regularly used in my Rem 870 Wingmaster & Win Mod 12 w/o any problems.When I fired 1 shell the action doubled and each time I fired it turnings of aluminum would show in the receiver ,another round caused the action to double , I was on station one called for a bird and pulled the trigger, the shotgun receiver disintegrated along with the forend throwing wood & aluminum a few feet.I wasn't injured and neither was the man on station 2. After this episode I could squeeze the broken receiver together with my thumb & forefinger.Since that experience I won't fire or purchase any shotgun with an aluminum receiver .I called Mossberg & sent the pieces back to them.After many letters they sent me a new 9200,when I opened the pkg and checked the receiver there were turnings of aluminum in the new 9200.The 9200 production was discontinued. I took the replacement back to the store where I bought it and turned it in on a new Remington 12g 11-87 made with steel. Last edited on Wed Aug 8th, 2007 03:15 PM by sako06
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The feller on station 2 may not have been injured, but I bet his score for that round was well below his lifetime average.
The old Mossbergs were known to be so heavy that you needed a wheelbarrow to tote one around and they were tougher than an elephant's hide. I'm not familiar with the 9200 but evidently they went too far the other way with that model.
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