100 Years Ago Today

SmokeEaterPilot · Dec 24, 2019

Hey Guys,

Figured you'd guys get a kick out of it. I was posting it on various social media outlets as "100 Years Ago Today" what was being discussed...

Essentially since Christmas can be fun and family filled, it brings a lot of stress. Getting the house cleaned and ready, travel and making sure the food is ready to feed a crowd properly.

But no matter how much stress you feel on Christmas....

You're no filling out a report on Christmas Eve on how your soldiers injured their eyes on a safe environment of a shooting range...

Have a Merry Christmas!

Threeband · Dec 24, 2019

101 years ago.

Melnic · Dec 24, 2019

Sounds like a squib load where the bullet barely made it into the rifling. Then ran a 2nd cartridge in.
Or some other obstruction

Threeband · Dec 24, 2019

Yes, the difficulty closing the bolt could have been from a bullet from a squib caught in the throat.

Alan3413 · Dec 25, 2019

You'll put your eye out, kid!

ToBeFree · Dec 25, 2019

Alan3413 said:
You'll put your eye out, kid!

Ralphie approves of this report!

Ironnewt · Dec 27, 2019

Melnic said:
Sounds like a squib load where the bullet barely made it into the rifling. Then ran a 2nd cartridge in.
Or some other obstruction

Sounds like what happened

Mark75H · Dec 27, 2019

Pretty much the way I remember it.

Doco Overboard · Dec 27, 2019

Levine should have been aware of lack of recoil and report or noticed a miss relayed back from the pits if he was able to call his shot. Nattress the scorer only noticed he had trouble with his rifle. Maybe Miller crammed a 7.92 in there or there was a broken piece of neck left in the chamber that set the bullet back into the case if it wasn't a squib.
Couple months before the war ended they would have still been using the cupro nickle 150gr ball ammo that fouled the bore and cold welded itself to the neck of the brass sometimes. Report doesn't mention if they were greasing the bullets or not or any mention of ammo for that matter.

John from MD · Dec 27, 2019

It happened to me at AGC using an Enfield No4Mk2 sometime in the late 1980's. I was shooting prone and had what I thought was a misfire. I cycled the bolt and the round (or so I thought) ejected into a pile of empties and other duds. ( I was using surplus MkVII ammo from 1940)

I then chambered the next round and had to beat the bolt in a little. This did not seem unusual as this batch of surplus had dents. I then took aim and pulled the trigger and heard a loud explosion and smoke came out of the receiver of the rifle. After a few seconds, my left arm started to ache. My friend in the next lane came and checked me out and asked what happened. I said "Damned if I know" and then looked at the rifle. The magazine had been blown out of the receiver and the receiver was bowed. The bolt was locked in the receiver and the firing pin was sticking out of the bolt about 2 inches. I had a sore left arm, soot and oil all over my face but other than that I was ok.

After getting home I hammered the bolt out and found that the firing pin had broken at the indented boss used to screw the firing pin into the cocking piece. This allowed the firing pin to go backward only to be stopped by part of the broken boss. If the firing pin broke any lower, it would have killed me. :eek:

I used the parts for years in my classes to show what can happen if you get a stopped up barrel.

Just thought I would share that little tidbit.

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