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I figure if you got it marked twice HEY IM LOADED and you still manage to double load it.....You probably have no business shooting/owning/handling MLs.
Some people are just born to be fools, and no amount of well intentioned advice will ever have any effect on the way they think, nor their actions.Last Saturday while I was running the store I had a person bring in a ML for shipment to a relative. He assured me it was unloaded as he had not used it for many years. I ran a rod down and it did not go all the way. He still insisted it was not loaded, became grumpy when said if it was not loaded something else was in the barrel. He then tried to blow down the barrel, and that did not work. He left with the rifle saying he was going to shoot out whatever was in there!
Speaking of Mud Daubers, I had a friend that kept his muzzleloading shot gun hanging on the wall when it wasn't in use. Come hunting season, he took is shot gun down and loaded it up. First bird that went up he shouldered his gun, pulled back the hammer and CLICK. He tried several caps, but not fired off the gun. We pulled the over shot wad, drained the shot, pulled the over powder wads and dumped the powder. The powder looked strange, kinda brownish, but we didn't that much on it. Fired off a few more caps but there was no movement of leaf debris on the ground at the muzzle. Removed the nipple and tried blowing down the barrel, but couldn't get air to exit the nipple seat. Finally I put the worm back on the ram rod and ran it down the barrel and twisted it. Heard a strange grinding noise. Pulled out the ram rod and the worm was full of hardened mud. Seems a mud dauber used the barrel to make a nest in. Our loading of the gun pushed the nest into the breech area preventing the gun from going boom. Lesson learned. Always run a patch down the bore before loading a gun after storage to be sure it is not loaded and to be sure there are no other obstructions.I thought the best advice was to pull the breech plug and see what was in there. It could very well have been a load, mud daubers, or both. That was my suggestion. Heck, I even offered to pull the plug.
Living by the above rules, I have never had an issue with any muzzleoading weapon, because I considered each one that I ever handled to be loaded, until such time that I ascertained that it was not loaded. By whatever means that was appropriate for the particular rifle, pistol, or smoothbore in question.I had the mantra, "Every gun is to be considered loaded until you open up the action & prove to yourself/any bystanders that is is actually not loaded" drilled into my head at 10 years of age, until there was no way for me to ever forget it.
I make a habit of opening up any firearm to verify that it is unloaded, even if I am in a gun store looking at multiple firearms that are sitting on top of a counter for my perusal in the hopes of my purchasing one of them. Even if all of the firearms on the counter have never been out of either my sight, nor the store employee's sight.
Regardless of the type of action that any particular firearm that I am handling might have, & even if just 30 seconds ago I have opened up the action & verified beyond any question to myself, and the salesman that that particular firearm was unloaded, I still do it again.
No matter how many times I pick that firearm up, and subsequently place it back on the countertop, I check to be sure it is still unloaded.
This habit might be more than a little OCD, but I always know the status of every firearm that I touch. I can tell you that I have irritated more than a handful of gun store employees over the past 50 years by my insistence on acting this way.
I insist on doing things this way because I was taught that "Every single time you pick up a gun, Bruce, you better damn sure open it up to make sure it's not loaded!"
I've never kept A loaded firearm in my gun room, only in the bedroom, so some 40 years ago I inherited a marble game getter pistol that was used on trap lines back in the 30s and 40s. They were a simple little thing with a brass barrel. Anyway I just stuck it in my gun room without thinking anything about it and some 20 years ago a fellow showed up and I was telling him about it, and he wanted to see it so I went and got it, it was in a holster Just the way I received it from his wife, handed to him and it was loaded. They were 22 caliber and I must admit I was dumbfounded, because the fellow that owned it first just had It hanging on the wall and I never realized it was loaded. I'm sure it my fault for not looking, I didn't prove it was empty when I received it and I should've. All firearms are loaded till proven otherwise. You just can't be too careful.I had the mantra, "Every gun is to be considered loaded until you open up the action & prove to yourself/any bystanders that it is actually not loaded" drilled into my head at 10 years of age, until there was no way for me to ever forget it.
I make a habit of opening up any firearm to verify that it is unloaded, even if I am in a gun store looking at multiple firearms that are sitting on top of a counter for my perusal in the hopes of my purchasing one of them. Even if all of the firearms on the counter have never been out of either my sight, nor the store employee's sight.
Regardless of the type of action that any particular firearm that I am handling might have, & even if just 30 seconds ago I have opened up the action & verified beyond any question to myself, and the salesman that that particular firearm was unloaded, I still do it again.
No matter how many times I pick that firearm up, and subsequently place it back on the countertop, I check to be sure it is still unloaded.
This habit might be more than a little OCD, but I always know the status of every firearm that I touch. I can tell you that I have irritated more than a handful of gun store employees over the past 50 years by my insistence on acting this way.
I insist on doing things this way because I was taught that "Every single time you pick up a gun, Bruce, you better damn sure open it up to make sure it's not loaded!"
exactly,I was taught to treat EVERY gun as if it was loaded, no exceptions.
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