This doesn't really belong here. But then, it doesn't really belong anywhere lol. I lost a really nice moose 3 yrs ago due to a misfire round. I was doing some practice trigger pull mid way through a reloading session. As a break so to speak. I then finished my reloads and packed up my equipment for a morning hunt.
Nice bull walks out on the road side and stands there. So I jumps out and throws one of my new reloads into the chamber, aims and pulls the trigger. Click. By the time I ejected that one and threw in another the bull was gone. Closer inspection of the failed round revealed that I had included my home made snap cap (brass and bullet with a cross cut from a large O-ring in pocket), with my newly reloaded cartridges. That cap is now painted green and has a couple holes drilled through the brass. Lesson: when reloading stay focused until the job is done. I did get a much smaller moose that yr.
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