Posted on 10/19/2015 10:23:51 AM PDT by Beowulf9
I don’t care who you are, this there is some funny stuff.
At least nobody died.
The jokes are going to write themselves heh.
-——Sounds like the beginning of a Columbo episode-—
except, the shooters missed the intended duel targets
I remember going to the field in the army...just about every time the entire battalion went out, there would be chatter over the radio to check your ammo, because somebody found live rounds mixed with the blanks. I never understood it, but it happens.
BTW, most of our weapons had blank adapters to make them ‘cycle’, so instead of shooting somebody, the danger was a barrel blowing up in your own face. I imagine there revolver blanks are different...curious to see what the bullet side looks like.
Obviously the evil gun loaded itself and did this on its own accord.
Hey, this sounds like someplace I’d be interested in going! Ticket sales will probably increase.
On one Ex in southern Alberta, a guy didn’t check his ammo, and he shot the BFA and round through a medium truck passenger window...past the nose of the driver and out the driver side side window.
Nobody was hurt, but we got a stop stop stop.
I don’t get how guys can not notice that. It’s common sense.
A revolver blank is probably like most, just crimped end on it.
Glad it was Holliday’s shotgun.
Many years ago we had to cancel an Exercise when we found out the enemy force was issued with LIVE ROUNDS .
“Hey, this sounds like someplace I’d be interested in going! Ticket sales will probably increase.”
I don’t think this was a mistake, I think someone outside of the whole thing did this. Evil.
However, you SHOULD go here. It’s fun! The street is close to what it was in the early 1900s and lots still there from Wyatt Earp’s day, including Big Nose Kate’s bar/restaurant where you can get a nice steak and brew and don’t miss The Birdcage Saloon! All very interesting. Haunted tours as well, supposed to be haunted.
Wyatt would not be happy. No guns allowed in Tombstone.
glad is WASN’T Holliday’s shotgun.
sheesh !
One would think that there is a ‘safety officer’ or other responsible individual who checks everything out completely before each performance. If it was a ‘prank’, charges up to and possibly including attempted murder may stick.
Wow...I’d always assumed the barrel would just turn into a banana peel. Never thought the bfa and bullet would go ‘downrange’.
I don’t know how it goes unnoticed either...but it does.
I thought it would blow up too, but I guess the BFA had worked itself a bit loose from all the blank firing prior.
It is criminal negligence on several levels:
1. Blanks are easily distinguished from the live rounds. Just look at the front of the cylinder and if you see lead you have live rounds. He did not examine his cylinder before the show.
2. The first shot would have had recoil from the lead and it should have stopped the shooter immediately.
3. The live rounds cylinders should be kept apart from blanks in a different box and the cylinders should be checked as above when loaded in the gun.
4. The blanks are probably loaded at home by the shooters. Basically bp + a wad to hold the powder in during carry and firing. Very easy to determine which is which and keep them separate before the re-enactment.
I shoot bp pistol and find the lack of care by the safety guy and the shooter to be a real problem. #2 is bothersome in particular as the recoil should have told the shooter that he had shot a live round.
I can tell rather small changes in velocity by the recoil and can make an accurate guess as to whether the shot will be on target or low.
Love triangle? One of the actors wasn’t shooting blanks.
Shades of when Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee’s son, was killed on the set while filming a shootem-up scene of The Crow when one of the guns proved to have real ammo instead of blanks. Never proved, but someone obviously had it in for Brandon.
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