[Squantos]

This is what happens when you school the populace, through propaganda and lies, that firearms and ammo are eeeeeeeevil !

They try and destroy that which they haven’t a clue about and hurt themselves and or others, directly and indirectly, due their own ignorance of the facts .

Sort of like gun control idiots.....;o)

Glad no one was hurt.

[hiredhand]

I knew these two guys when I was growing up. We were middle teens at the time. They found a .30-06 cartridge and one took it to the garage, squeezed it into a vise, aimed the projectile end at a block of wood on the bench top and was going to whack the primer with a punch and hammer. His brother told him it was probably a bad idea. The moron with the hammer told him that the bullet would simply fire into the block of wood. I remember at the time (even before taking up reloading) thinking that this whole thing sounded like a supremely BAD idea.

So there stands one with the cartridge in a vise, ready with hammer and punch. The other is standing across the room trying to convince him that this isn't a good idea. The one across the room threatened to TELL MOM unless moron #1 at least put on some gloves and eye protection. Moron #1 complied...set the punch on the primer of the cartridge, drew the hammer back.....and....

You can probably guess the rest. I wasn't there, so I got this second hand from his younger brother who was at a relatively safe distance across the room. After the *KB*, he ran around the room howling like a scalded dog. Then of course there was NO way he could keep his Mom from seeing where the dozen or so small pieces of brass entered his face. The gloves prevented injury to his hands and the safety glasses saved his eyes. His Mom took him to the doc, and then according to his little brother kicked his ass. I was over there about a week later thinking, "Sheesh...Even I wouldn't trying something as dumb as this!"

They did keep the bullet though, because as you can imagine it didn't go far. :-)