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Yet again another absolute cracker.
i cant stop laughing, Rev you are the man.

Rev’s was good but ‘mama lama’ was better 😆

Years ago I decided that the thing to do was to become a pilot. Its what I wanted to do. But I learned that I would never become an airline pilot because I have to wear glasses. But I decided that I would be a crop duster. I just wanted to fly. I spent big bucks to get my commercial pilots license and became a crop duster. For a few years I did what I wanted to do, but then I met a gorgous girl and fell in love and married. I then decided that I did not want to take the chance at leaving her to someone else, so I quit crop dusting and decided to get my college education.

I could have bought and paid in full a nice house for this gal for what I spent on learning to fly. But we all live and hopefuly learn from our mistakes. But because we live in a free country, we also get to reap the benifits of our successes.

nt

Oops completely forgot to post this. I’ve told this one before.. true story…

A lesson for anyone that may ever shoot blackpowder.
I had another little accident that bothered me more even though nobody got hurt (other than my wounded pride…).

I had gone hunting at my daughter and son-in-law’s land in northern Minnesota and had taken my blackpowder .45 CVA Kentucky longrifle.
I went out a few times with no luck except a few deer too far out to try with a lousy .45 roundball and at the end of the day, I fired the loaded round into the dirt in a safe direction in case of a rock under the surface as I always do and set the gun aside.

Well, everyone wanted to see the gun of course, then they wanted to see how to load it. So I went through all of the steps, even showing them how to check to see if it was loaded or not by dropping the ram-rod down the barrel metal end first so they could hear it “ping” when it hit the breech.

I then dropped the rod down again to show them how the lead ball just gave a dull thud and how a mark on the rod would show how far the rod went into the barrel which would indicate if it was empty or not by where the mark was. If empty it should have been right at the end of the barrel instead of a few inches above it if it had a charge of powder and a ball.
I set the now loaded gun, with no cap on the nipple in a safe place (no kids around to mess with it thankfully) and the next day, as I was preparing to go out, my son-in-law suggested I borrow his 30-30 lever-action to improve my chances since he had to go to work and wouldn’t need it. I did so, but had no luck and went home empty handed. The next night at home… I decided to clean the gun and promptly forgot all about having loaded it.

Here is the part the rest of you should pay close attention to when dealing with a Muzzleloader.
I actually “cleaned” the gun without noticing that the rod did not go all the way down as it would with an empty gun. The mark I had put on the rod was normally a white ring around the rod, but had gotten dirty and I didn’t notice it was missing. If I had seen it, I would have known something was amiss. It should have been even with the muzzle.
Anyhow, this is the interesting part for me… I ran that rod down and back up that barrel with several cleaning patches until they were all nice and clean.

While doing so, I heard the familiar “whistling” that you will hear when the air is pushed down the barrel ahead of the patch and out the nipple at the breach. Or… at least that is what I thought it was… In fact what I was hearing was the compressed air whistling past the cleaning patch and back out the muzzle!!!

The next step in cleaning a blackpowder gun is to make sure you then clean the nipple out in case you pushed some debris into it while cleaning it.
There are several ways to do this.
You can push a wire pick into the opening to ensure it is clear or you can put an ignition cap on the nipple and fire it in a safe direction to blow any debris out of the nipple.
Guess which method I chose…
Yep, you guessed it, I put an ignition cap on the nipple on the now fully cleaned “empty” gun and promptly shot a .45 inch hole in the hallway carpet!!

I was dumbfounded! WTF!! How the hell did this gun get loaded again??
Then I remembered… Oh.. yeah… that’s how…
Luckily I missed the gas line running along the joists in the basement by at least 6 inches… and the ball impacted the heavy wooden parts of the joists and deflected God knows where elsewhere in the basement. To this day I still have not found that thing…
The wife was not too pleased, but not angry, she is pretty forgiving of me… Now she tells the amusing story of me walking into the bedroom with a cloud of white smoke rolling in behind me to tell her what the loud noise was…

It was a cold MN winter day and so instead of opening the patio door and firing it out as I should have, if at all… I figured… aw hell, its just a friggin cap… and… BOOOOM!!!!

Just glad no real harm came of it and if anyone can learn from this, it is all worth it..
To this day, I will amuse my guests by shoving the back end of the cleaning rod into the hole in the carpet and down into the basement to show them what happened.

Bruce

For the sake of funny stories hears one of mine.
I used to have a real close female friend in school and we’d always hangout. One day we were walking out the school gate an i saw this big dude with a skinny ass body and a funkin massive belly. I turned to her an said “You ever seen a pregnant man?” she said “No”
an I said “there” AND she said “THAT’S MY DAD” needless to say I
kinda wanted a hole to swallow me up or sumut lol.
She was cool though she just laughed it of an said it was fine
I felt horrible and apologised over an over!!!!

I was working at McD’s one day and I put cheese on someone’s puarter pounder, when they said they didn’t want cheese. They came back and got a new one.

I was wondering the same thing Synopsys, I was hoping someone would bring it up again, just to see what the deal was or isn’t for that matter. 😕