Pretty silly reason in the Youtube age:
Firing the Wrong Caliber - YouTube
(Some of this guys videos are a little silly for my taste...others are fun and quasi-educational.)
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Pretty silly reason in the Youtube age:
Firing the Wrong Caliber - YouTube
(Some of this guys videos are a little silly for my taste...others are fun and quasi-educational.)
Has always been my suspicion in these cases.
When I was a boy there was no big game where I live and recreational shooting was unheard of except during hunting season and that was limited to .22's and shotguns pretty much.
Never saw it actually happen but did see the results of smaller gauge shells getting lodged in the barrel, 20ga in a 12ga for instance, during the heat of the moment and another shell fired behind it.
Was on a hot dive shoot with Dad once and saw him fumbling around trying to reload while watching for incoming birds,he finally looked down to see what was the problem and noticed he was trying to load a bic lighter he'd accidentally stuffed into the wrong pocket into the magazine of his A-5.
About 15 years ago I walked up on a nice buck bedded down in a grove of trees, the first shot grazed a tree and hit off center of his neck failing to kill him on the spot. He took off running and I was trying to chamber a fresh round in my Marlin 35 for 2nd shot but nothing doing. After I lost sight of the deer going over the hill I looked to see what the problem was and saw I was trying to chamber a .308 round. I'm still thankful it was too long to let the close and I still dont know how I missed when I was loading the rifle.
I had a local guy in here a couple of months ago with a case stuck in a 1922 Browning pistol. Sure enough, he had loaded a .32 ACP in a .380 ACP pistol. It went off OK and stuck in the chamber. I popped it out easy enough and there was no damage to the shooter or pistol other than pride. Gotta pay attention to detail when messing with firearms!