I once forgot where I was in the loading process and figured it would be best just to shoot off a primer and be sure there was no bullet in rather than send another down the barrel and take a chance(I was pretty sure I had not loaded one yet). So I set it off and a full pyrodex pellet shoots out the muzzle burning down range ten yards like a bottle rocket. The guy next to me firing cartridges looked at me as if I had nearly killed him. I think he was already peeved by the smoke, but I got there first and there were plenty of open spots upwind of me. Was it really dangerous?
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