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

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).

61 posted on 05/14/2007 2:59:04 PM PDT by Pontiac (Patriotism is the natural consequence of having a free mind in a free society.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ignorance like this is the FRUIT of the Gun Control tree!


62 posted on 05/14/2007 2:59:41 PM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: steveo

We had his whole family right up the street when I was a kid... ;)


63 posted on 05/14/2007 3:01:51 PM PDT by johnny7 ("Issue in Doubt." -Col. David Monroe Shoup, USMC 1943)
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To: unspun

Vises kill people!


64 posted on 05/14/2007 3:02:18 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: unspun

I am hiding my vise and hammer.


65 posted on 05/14/2007 3:03:14 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: gathersnomoss

Well you could recycle them as scrap. You’d probably get $0.25!


66 posted on 05/14/2007 3:10:14 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: unspun

This is what the vice squad is supposed to prevent! Were they in the donut shop or what?


67 posted on 05/14/2007 3:11:12 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: CGTRWK
"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 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...

68 posted on 05/14/2007 3:11:52 PM PDT by telebob
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To: Responsibility2nd

That was my first thought.


69 posted on 05/14/2007 3:11:58 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier fighting the terrorists in the Triangle of Death)
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To: chadwimc
Did anybody ever take a whole roll of paper caps and whack ‘em with a hammer???

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.

70 posted on 05/14/2007 3:19:08 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: dangerdoc

Kind of like stealing beer and emptying the cans down the drain so he could recycle the aluminum.


71 posted on 05/14/2007 3:20:58 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Lady Jag

LOL - perfect! I’m stealing that!


72 posted on 05/14/2007 3:21:57 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I’ve had access to ammunition for 45 years, hammers and screwdrivers a bit longer. It has never occurred to me to “whack” ammunition with hammer and screwdriver.
73 posted on 05/14/2007 3:22:58 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I can hear the liberals renewed calls for banning bullets!

This kid must drink Dum Bass beer.


74 posted on 05/14/2007 3:25:39 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: SamAdams76

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...


75 posted on 05/14/2007 3:26:07 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Right Wing Assault; tubebender; B4Ranch; Pete-R-Bilt
Kind of like stealing beer and emptying the cans down the drain so he could recycle the aluminum.

With the minor exception that beer doesn't explode.

... unless you, um, drop the keg off the Harley. Don't ask.

76 posted on 05/14/2007 3:26:12 PM PDT by glock rocks (They'll never take me alive)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Scary thing is that this moron is able to vote.


77 posted on 05/14/2007 3:28:46 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: clinkclink; andyssister; andyandval

Pinging my Adirondacks brethren.


78 posted on 05/14/2007 3:30:50 PM PDT by synbad600
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To: Responsibility2nd

Darwin waited and waited and waited, but, after the 99th time, he could wait no longer.


79 posted on 05/14/2007 3:33:51 PM PDT by Continental Soldier
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To: patton

sometimes ya gotta just shake your head ...


80 posted on 05/14/2007 3:38:51 PM PDT by leda (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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