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Old December 4, 2013, 06:35 PM   #16
James K
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OK, I will tell one on myself. I had replace the firing pin on a Browning and went next door to the range to test fire it. I loaded it and, as usual, counted the rounds. I fired it and it worked OK, but I was sure I had loaded one round more than I had fired. I worked the action several times, concluded that I was mistaken, pointed the gun down and pulled the trigger to let the hammer down. Guess what? Yep, my counting was right, I hadn't fired all the rounds in the gun.

So back to the bench to strip and clean the gun right and get the crud out of the magazine tube. Taught me a couple of lessons, that did. 1) make sure everything works on a gun before you test fire it, not just what you fixed and 2) always check a gun like that to be sure it is unloaded; then check again, and again.

Jim
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