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.
Moisture is the enemy of Ammo.
With age the primer will become less likely to ignite (what we call a dud). Some times you can get a poor primer to fire on a second or third try.
If moisture permeates the powder charge it is possible it will fissile (that is burn poorly) and you may end up with a bullet failing to exit the barrel (which is the very definition of a bad day).
Ignorance like this is the FRUIT of the Gun Control tree!
We had his whole family right up the street when I was a kid... ;)
Vises kill people!
I am hiding my vise and hammer.
Well you could recycle them as scrap. You’d probably get $0.25!
This is what the vice squad is supposed to prevent! Were they in the donut shop or what?
I just paid 34 cents a round for 500 rounds of Federal American Eagle .223. I thought that was a good price. I would have gladly given this bonehead 20 cents a round.
It must be pretty obvious that he didn't pay for the ammo...
That was my first thought.
My buddy and I had this hammer thing that you put a cap into. When you smacked it on the ground, it shot a little rocket a few inches into the air. So we took a whole roll, carefully tore all the paper off but over the powder, loaded this thing up, and whacked it. Damn! We never saw the little rocket thing again. If we were standing over it, it probably would have killed one of us.
Kind of like stealing beer and emptying the cans down the drain so he could recycle the aluminum.
LOL - perfect! I’m stealing that!
I can hear the liberals renewed calls for banning bullets!
This kid must drink Dum Bass beer.
with the price of brass what it is now, if he tried to pick up my brass we’d have a little ‘splainen session’ about not touching my damn brass...
With the minor exception that beer doesn't explode.
... unless you, um, drop the keg off the Harley. Don't ask.
Scary thing is that this moron is able to vote.
Pinging my Adirondacks brethren.
Darwin waited and waited and waited, but, after the 99th time, he could wait no longer.
sometimes ya gotta just shake your head ...
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