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It still goes back to carelessness. To me, there is a huge difference between a snap cap and a loaded round. Before I ever used a snap cap, I used once fired empties to drop the hammers on my doubles. I never had any trouble telling the difference between an empty and an unfired shell. Of course, I had also beaten the entire rims of .22 brass to death by using empties for dry firing revolver practice. I never managed to mix a loaded round in with the empties, but if I had, habit would have dictated that the muzzle was pointed in a safe direction when I pulled the trigger. I understand that accidents happen. But it's up to us to reduce them to as near zero as possible. That requires us to always maintain the same level of awareness as if we were near a spinning prop or saw blade. Owning and using guns is an awesome responsibility. I've always started with any new shooter by using water filled milk jugs, over-ripe melons, or the like, to show them the destructive force of even a puny .22 lr. I want them to understand that if they ever screw up and shoot a hunting companion or even themselves, someone could easily die. Even if we weren't brought up that way, we ought to retrain ourselves and make safe gun handling job #1 with any new shooter before they make a mistake with huge consequences.

I used to always think it was pretty cool to go into dozens of gun shows, each containing hundreds or thousands of firearms, and yet I felt as safe as safe could be. I'd think, if guns are so dangerous, this ought to be the worst place I could be on the planet. Yet there was never a problem. Never that is until about ten years ago when a vendor screwed up and bounced a 9m/m round off the floor of the Monroeville Expo Mart PGCA Gun Show and hit a patron in the leg. He thought the gun was unloaded. He obviously didn't take 2 seconds to check. And he pointed the gun inside a crowded building, put his finger on the trigger, and he pulled it. That wasn't a single mistake. That was four or five screw ups that led to an AD. I wasn't there that day, but that one incident caused enough unease that the whole venue changed and the show is now a shadow of what it once was.


A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.

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Lewis Drake used to sell,and many old cased English guns came with, a piece of buffalo horn that you could hold against the breech face and snap the firing pins against.I've used them for years and there's no mistaking what it's for. Regards, Marcus

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I put snap caps with the mop on the end for my perazzi.They slipped under/past the ejectors,and,were a b@#$ to get out.

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A time honored story of the pitfalls of not using snap caps (or something)...

Old BGC days... guy has a Ljutic for sale.

Must be the old days... this is when the Ljutic was the hot ticket for trap... gun is in the club rack with the usual 'for sale $xx' sign made out of a shell box sticking out the muzzle.

Prospective buyer picks it up, checks the chamber (good on him), mounts the magnificent clay buster to his shoulder... and tries out the trigger.

"Snap"... and the firing pin hits the wall at the other end of the room.

I swear. This is a true no $hitter.


"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Was the POI 60/40 or 80/20?

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