Muzzleloader Mishaps can happen to the Best of Us

I was visiting a new blog I started watching called "Gander's Muzzleloading Blog". On it there was a post titled "Rush it & This could happen to you! Muzzleloading safety". When I started reading and looking at the pictures I was amazed that the shooter which is the blog owner FrontierGander was luckily not injured. Here is part of his story,

"First time I ever had this happen, and hopefully the last. You might think 'this couldn't happen to me', and I must admit, I never entertained this happening to ME, with MY gun. However, this weekend changed all that."

I found a couple stories on some forums and i thought I'd share with you all on how important it is that you Pay Attention & do Not get Distracted while shooting & Especially Loading your Muzzle loader.

I was shooting alongside my son Jesse, and one of our neighbors, Bill, was coaching Jesse. I had one ear on what Bill was saying, and less than half my focus on what I was doing. I loaded powder and started the ball, and completely forgot to push the ball all the way down with the loading rod. In hindsight, I had no doubts, no niggling thought to check my gun if I wasn't sure of the load. Nothing. Nothing, that is, until the gun went off with the strangest sound. It didn't dawn on me that something was wrong until the smoke cleared, and the muzzle didn't look right.

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