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Teen Hurt Whacking Bullets With Hammer
WTOP News ^ | 05/14/2007

Posted on 05/14/2007 2:18:37 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y. (AP) - A teenager who put bullets in a vise and whacked them with a hammer to empty the brass shell casings was wounded in the abdomen by approximately the 100th bullet he hit, according to Warren County deputies.

Damion M. Mosher, 18, had been discharging .223-caliber rounds, placing them in a steel vise, putting a screwdriver on the primer, and striking the screwdriver with the hammer, deputies said.

Deputies were called to his home in Lake Luzerne shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday when one bullet went about a half-inch into his abdomen. He was treated at Glens Falls Hospital and was released. No charges were filed.

Mosher told authorities he was trying to empty the rounds to collect the brass casings for scrap.

Sheriff Larry Cleveland said about 100 other rounds that Mosher hit had "fizzled," but one was somehow sent with more force. It was unclear if the bullet ricocheted or hit him directly.

An employee of Capitol Scrap Co. in Albany said Monday the business pays $1.70 a pound for scrap brass shell casings.

Cleveland said Mosher's shells amounted to just a few pounds.

Lake Luzerne, at the southeastern edge of the Adirondacks, is 45 miles north of Albany.


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To: SamAdams76

That was my thought - just offer to “sweep up” at closing time, it would be a mutually beneficial situation.


41 posted on 05/14/2007 2:38:15 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Responsibility2nd
An employee of Capitol Scrap Co. in Albany said Monday the business pays $1.70 a pound for scrap brass shell casings.

A .223 case weighs about 95 grains, about 75 to a pound. So this brilliant young entrepreneur was wasting live ammo - easily worth 20 cents a round - to sell the brass for 2.3 cents.

42 posted on 05/14/2007 2:38:57 PM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: Responsibility2nd

I guess it didn’t occur to him to just sell the .223 rounds?

Prolly worth more than scrap brass...


43 posted on 05/14/2007 2:39:14 PM PDT by GourmetDan
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To: Responsibility2nd

I guess it didn’t occur to him to just sell the .223 rounds?

Prolly worth more than scrap brass...


44 posted on 05/14/2007 2:39:14 PM PDT by GourmetDan
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To: AnAmericanMother

Meth Heads are not that advanced.


45 posted on 05/14/2007 2:39:19 PM PDT by Deguello
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To: Responsibility2nd

46 posted on 05/14/2007 2:40:53 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Responsibility2nd

...and He’ll get his 15 minutes of Fame. :/


47 posted on 05/14/2007 2:41:06 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass ( just b/c, you suffer from paranoia, doesn't mean they're not out to get you....Run, Fred, Run :^)
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To: Responsibility2nd
About the time I was 12 or 13 year old, around 1970s, a cousin told me that a friend of his was wedging .22s under the barn door and whacking them with a hammer.

Naturally, one casing eventually went backwards, into the kid's, thigh.

There was one of those movies based upon a book of rememberances of a girl growing up. She was a young British girl, and her father was farming or ranching in Africa. One of the African kids went into the storage shed, and took some blasting caps to whack at with the expected result.

Maybe that kid got the idea from the farmer setting off a couple for Guy Fawkes day, I don't quite remember.

48 posted on 05/14/2007 2:42:05 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: CGTRWK
.223 and all ammo prices have skyrocketed lately. It's a good $.40 - .50 per round these days.

This information does not, however, change the fact that this kid is a drooling moron.

49 posted on 05/14/2007 2:42:20 PM PDT by AngryJawa ({IDPA, NRA} GO HUNTER '08)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Loaded rounds should be worth more than than scrap brass. Even empty brass should be worth more for reloading than as scrap.


50 posted on 05/14/2007 2:42:31 PM PDT by CPOSharky (An organization that kills those who do not believe it's dogma is NOT a religion.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Any reloader worth his powder has a “bullet puller”. It’s a hammer that a person puts a live bullet into, then whacks it on something hard. Inertia makes the lead part pop apart from the casing, thus saving the bullet and powder. If the powder is old school military surplus, it goes on the lawn and garden for fertilizer.

Did anybody ever take a whole roll of paper caps and whack ‘em with a hammer???


51 posted on 05/14/2007 2:42:35 PM PDT by chadwimc (Proud to be an infidel ! Allah fubar !!!)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

There you go!

That’s the pic I was looking for.

Damion M. Mosher, as portayed 60 years ago by Warner Brothers.


52 posted on 05/14/2007 2:44:39 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Global Warming is Leftist Theology - Why is it Being Taught in School?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Anybody know if bullets eventually become unstable with time? Do they have a shelf-life?


53 posted on 05/14/2007 2:45:49 PM PDT by DemEater
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To: AnAmericanMother
- or this -


54 posted on 05/14/2007 2:45:56 PM PDT by glock rocks (They'll never take me alive)
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To: chadwimc
Any reloader worth his powder has a “bullet puller”.

Not true.

Some of us don't make mistakes. 8^)

55 posted on 05/14/2007 2:46:02 PM PDT by AngryJawa ({IDPA, NRA} GO HUNTER '08)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If he was discharging the bullets for the recycle value of brass, it is clear he was not paying for the ammunition. Was he a theif? I had a thousand rounds of 308 stolen from a storage unit, probably by a moron like him.

It is also a horrible waste of ammuntion.


56 posted on 05/14/2007 2:48:03 PM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: Responsibility2nd
"Hold muh Extremo Citrico Tangerine Rain Gatorade for a few minutes, willya, buddy?

Leni

57 posted on 05/14/2007 2:48:20 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: DemEater
Anybody know if bullets eventually become unstable with time? Do they have a shelf-life?

Most my bullets become unstable beginning about a half second after the range timer beeps; however, shelf life can be decades in a controlled environment.

58 posted on 05/14/2007 2:48:43 PM PDT by glock rocks (They'll never take me alive)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I am having a real tough time trying to type my reply after reading the current responses, but this kid is not ready for the real world. I am LMFAO on this one.


59 posted on 05/14/2007 2:54:18 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns don't kill people. None of my guns ever left the house at night and killed anyone.)
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