Oops! Has this happened to you?

[308]

My dad had a .380 round chambered backwards with the slide closed in his Colt Mustang. He started looking for someone to blame, like my brother who had been there a few months earlier. Dementia and firearms are not a good combo

 

[CRBMoA]

I am trying to be civil here, but if my name shows up in one more post for a quote I did not make I am going to start flagging posts!

Posts #16 and #18 have nothing to do with me!

Pay attention or do not quote people!

 

[308]

I am trying to be civil here, but if my name shows up in one more post for a quote I did not make I am going to start flagging posts!

Posts #16 and #18 have nothing to do with me!

Pay attention or do not quote people!

It's like those FB posts regarding a lost pet or missing person. 5-posts in the OP says "thanks, the pet or person has been found"....and the very next post says, OMG!! I cannot imagine how you must feel right now; prayers coming your way hoping they are found...

 

[Tony617]

This happens all the time in my H&K pistols, I followed the example on their brochure on how to load their magazines and my bullets always end up backwards.

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Maybe this was done intentionally since looks like they were possibly using live rounds? I zoomed in on rounds next to the pistol and see live primers. If they are dummy rounds the they did a nice job of making them look real.

 

[Horatius]

I am trying to be civil here, but if my name shows up in one more post for a quote I did not make I am going to start flagging posts!

Posts #16 and #18 have nothing to do with me!

Pay attention or do not quote people!

Cant really tell you the guys thoughts but I think he was referring to Kirk slapping forehead as a RESONSE to the post about sticking the rod in the barrel. How I read it anyway

 

[nammac]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/ow7wq1

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Ummm. That just looks wrrr, wrrr…. Incorrect to me…

 

[bigbearbear]

Maybe this was done intentionally since looks like they were possibly using live rounds? I zoomed in on rounds next to the pistol and see live primers. If they are dummy rounds the they did a nice job of making them look real.

No, it was a well published mistake made by the marketing company they hired to photograph and print the brochure. The internet community kept this up going for a long time because H&K had traditionally been extremely unfriendly to private gun owners so when they goofed up people kept reminding them how much they suck.

 

[gmerkt]

I am trying to be civil here, but if my name shows up in one more post for a quote I did not make I am going to start flagging posts!

Posts #16 and #18 have nothing to do with me!

Pay attention or do not quote people!

You are being very civil. Please accept my apologies for the misunderstanding. My intention was to emphasize the picture you posted in #15. My interpretation of which was, you were saying that sticking a cleaning rod down a barrel with a live primer exposed wasn't a good idea. If my interpretation was correct. Which I agree with completely. Which I thought maybe should have been mentioned in words, just in case. I didn't mean to imply that the quote was yours.

Someone else thought that my concern over sticking a cleaning rod down a barrel containing a live round with primer face up was paranoid. There is potential harm in this, depending on how much and what kind of force is used. Done the wrong way, it's clearly more dangerous than seating a primer (which doesn't have powder or bullet loaded) under controlled conditions. I think that all sorts of people read these things, they don't always do them as we think they will.

 

[PiratePast40]

I've seen that happen a few times. Someone wasn't paying attention when loading mags but I don't remember who it was.

Pull it out with your Leatherman and forget the squib rod.

 

[CLee0507]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/ow7wq1

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Using those Heckler & Koch mags are we?

 

[Cavedweller]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/ow7wq1

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No, never. Why do you ask?

 

[Knobgoblin]

To anyone who has actually experienced this. Was it a automatic magazine loader? Or did the round get inserted into mag backwards manually?

 

[Jasonanddeonna]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/ow7wq1

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No, but then none of mine are Glocks which means none of them want to kill themselves or self explode.

 

[nehalemguy]

This happens all the time in my H&K pistols, I followed the example on their brochure on how to load their magazines and my bullets always end up backwards.

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[nehalemguy]

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I personally think the Germans are still cheesed about that WW2 thing and are just messing with us.

 

[deerbandit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/ow7wq1

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Play the lottery tonight.

 

[titsonritz]