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- Oct 4, 2011
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Went over to our brand new shooting range in Thomasville, Ga and was totally impressed with the concrete shooting benches, comfortable seats, and computer screens to see where your bullets are impacting the target. Really first class!! Unfortunately I went to the range unprepared and had no premeasured powder ready to pour down my barrel so I was shooting a series of 3 shots, measuring and pouring more powder in my plastic vials. This went on for a while (15 shots) and this elderly gentlemen come over to watch me shoot as he was the overseer of the rifle range, as I was shooting well. We started talking about shooting ML's and his exploits with his old TC 50cal and then it happened, I got out of sequence! I was doing more talking than paying attention to my routine and that's when I realized that something was wrong. As I pushed the bullet down the barrel and it seated I could easily tell that it was not at my normal mark on my ram rod, so I pulled the breach plug and pushed the Parker sabot and powder out. I had somehow double loaded my powder charge along with the bullet and that is a good way to get seriously hurt. I tried reinstall the breach plug afterwards but the threads were all gummed up and that's when I called it a day. Went home and cleaned up my Knight Mountaineer and all is good but lets be careful out there guys and girls!! All it takes is one little mistake!! PS: here are a couple of shots at 100 yds!