My lucky week.

12ga Estate 'dove load' loaded in France. Dud. No priming compound.

20ga Gun Club. Chambered half way, wad bent 90 degrees at the crush section. This could have been bad news had someone forcefully chambered and fired it.

Neither would have made it through my reloading QC.

Yet to quote Krieghoff: "Firearms safety requires using only factory loaded ammunition, etc".


"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble