Amen, and amen.
Happened to me a few years ago when my next-door neighbor, a gun innocent, popped over one Saturday afternoon to show me what he had just picked up at a garage sale.
It was one of those kit percussion pistols that somebody had done a half a**ed job of building, but he was gonna use it as a wallhanger. So he handed it to me and, first thing I did, I pulled the rammer and did the check. Sure 'nuff. :shock:
We rigged it to a tire, roped the trigger and capped it, with a plastic bag of newspapers in front of the muzzle. When the smoke cleared, we retrieved a .44-cal ball about an inch deep in the newsprint. He was slightly mortified. "We were snapping that thing all morning," he said. Fortunately, they were doing it without a cap.
They're ALWAYS loaded. Always. :!:
Jim Strang
Gen. W.T. Sherman's Bodyguard
Midwest Region
"I think the Union army had something to do with it."
― Gen. George Pickett, years afterward, on why his charge at Gettysburg failed.
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