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.
That was my thought - just offer to “sweep up” at closing time, it would be a mutually beneficial situation.
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.
I guess it didn’t occur to him to just sell the .223 rounds?
Prolly worth more than scrap brass...
I guess it didn’t occur to him to just sell the .223 rounds?
Prolly worth more than scrap brass...
Meth Heads are not that advanced.
...and He’ll get his 15 minutes of Fame. :/
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.
This information does not, however, change the fact that this kid is a drooling moron.
Loaded rounds should be worth more than than scrap brass. Even empty brass should be worth more for reloading than as scrap.
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???
There you go!
That’s the pic I was looking for.
Damion M. Mosher, as portayed 60 years ago by Warner Brothers.
Anybody know if bullets eventually become unstable with time? Do they have a shelf-life?
Not true.
Some of us don't make mistakes. 8^)
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.
Leni
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.
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.
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