Post by Richard on Apr 9, 2021 20:40:24 GMT -5
Shot a funnel downrange! 
Well, Tuesday it occurred! I had loaded a duplex charge and for whatever reason, I got distracted and failed to take the funnel out of the muzzle. The fat part of the funnel (the bowl) is exactly the same diameter as my muzzle brake (1 ") So, thinking the rifle was loaded, I pulled the trigger only to get a resounding boom and muzzle flash. My first thought was that I forgot to load a bullet so, I proceeded to load another charge but.....I could not find my funnel where it should have been laying? That was when I realized what had occurred. I walked 40 yards down range directly in front of my barrel and there it was, laying in the grass. A little dirt in the end but otherwise unscathed! My funnel is such that you cannot load a bullet thru it like Jeff's so it was not a dangerous situation. Even so with Jeff's funnel, the bullet will generally just pass thru it although the pressure blast will send the funnel down range. In either case, shooting funnels down range is not a serious situation but, you may not not find it or it may be damaged.
You have got to be thinking all the time with these rifles!
Well, Tuesday it occurred! I had loaded a duplex charge and for whatever reason, I got distracted and failed to take the funnel out of the muzzle. The fat part of the funnel (the bowl) is exactly the same diameter as my muzzle brake (1 ") So, thinking the rifle was loaded, I pulled the trigger only to get a resounding boom and muzzle flash. My first thought was that I forgot to load a bullet so, I proceeded to load another charge but.....I could not find my funnel where it should have been laying? That was when I realized what had occurred. I walked 40 yards down range directly in front of my barrel and there it was, laying in the grass. A little dirt in the end but otherwise unscathed! My funnel is such that you cannot load a bullet thru it like Jeff's so it was not a dangerous situation. Even so with Jeff's funnel, the bullet will generally just pass thru it although the pressure blast will send the funnel down range. In either case, shooting funnels down range is not a serious situation but, you may not not find it or it may be damaged. You have got to be thinking all the time with these rifles!
