Guns and schools
A Montana superintendent of schools said his replica black powder muzzleloader accidentally fired off a round while he was showing the weapon to a class.
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March 10th, 2010 at 10:34 am
How do you forget you loaded a muzzleloader? Granted an expert can do it in seconds, but still for all that effort you’d think you’d remember.
On the upside, he only broke one of the four rules. No one was hurt. I’d chalk this up as a valuable lesson.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Just how in the blue fuck do you manage to accidentally fire a front-stuffer?
This little stunt makes Mr. DEA Glock Fo-Tay look like a paramount of safety. Fo-Tay was just dumb enough to leave a loaded mag in the gun while fiddling with it and didn’t realize he’d loaded his piece. It’s not like charging up a smoke-pole is such a quick and simple task.
I can only imagine he was demonstrating how things were done with actual gun powder (and maybe a ball…maybe not, we never know with reporters), which also leaves me scratching my head…
March 10th, 2010 at 10:44 am
Seems unbelievable. Not that I’m necessarily doubting the story. Just saying that it seems unbelievable.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:59 am
He probably forgot to “unload” it after the last time he went hunting – I’ve actually done the same thing myself. The last time I’d gone hunting, I expected to go out again the next day so I left it loaded (but not primed, of course). The weather didn’t cooperate for the rest of the season. Then I went to a local blackpowder shoot later.
The first thing you should always do before loading a muzzleloader when you haven’t handled it for a while is fire off a cap without loading it – this clears any dust out of the priming hole. It also has the added benefit of making sure you don’t double-load it and accidentally blow the gun up in your face. I left a 4 inch crater in the ground – less than 2 inches from my foot – thus reinforcing my (thankfully) already well-ingrained observation of Rule 2, and making me jump about 6 feet straight up.
Of course, in that situation, he should have checked it using the ramrod before he primed it. It’s easy enough to do, and he should have it already marked anyway.
He’s lucky. Lots of places he’d be out of a job, and facing criminal charges.
March 10th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
My first thought here was, “Oh, crap, please tell me it wasn’t (redacted) Public School!” My superintendent (at the time he was HS Principal) gave this very same demonstration when I was in an 8th grade History Class (I am now long since out of school, although he is still there), and its the kind of idiotic thing he would do. I was under the impression that one should clean BP guns after every use, before storage, to prevent corrosion… what happened there?
March 10th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Wolfman, most likely what happened to me: it was taken out hunting but not fired and left loaded for the next day’s hunting, which didn’t happen for some reason. It was never unloaded (i.e., fired) so he didn’t think to clean it.
There are only two ways to unload a muzzleloader – either you fire it, or you attach a screw to the end of the ramrod to screw into the ball and pull it out. Both ways render the bullet unusable, and the second method is a real PITA, so it’s not uncommon to leave it loaded if you expect to use it again the next day.