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Posted: 10/23/2014 3:31:51 PM EDT

This guy left his in somehow after cleaning and had a massive kaboom.
He was shooting a .17 VHA.

Yeah that's brass stuck in his face.

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:32:56 PM EDT

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Band-aid. Rub some dirt on it. Get back to shooting.,

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:39:35 PM EDT

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Pics of gun?

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:40:53 PM EDT

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Don't get blood on my scope.

ETA: Almost shot his eye out.

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:41:00 PM EDT

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Woah

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:41:51 PM EDT

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ouch, was that the shooter or a bystander?

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:41:55 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/23/2014 3:42:49 PM EDT

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Holy crap! Is his eye OK?

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:43:26 PM EDT

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Wtf is a Jag

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:43:40 PM EDT

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Flesh wound, keep shooting.

Any pics of action / barrel failure?

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:43:56 PM EDT

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Yup. From the face cut it looks like the action let go.

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:44:48 PM EDT

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Where is the pics?

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:44:56 PM EDT

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A cleaning jag. You know, those things you screw onto the end of a cleaning rod to clean your weapons with. You can see it sticking out of the end of the barrel in his picture.

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:45:23 PM EDT

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I bet he wont do that again.

Complacency tends to rear its ugly head when we least expect it.

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:45:56 PM EDT

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Lawyer for your guns.

Or:

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:46:01 PM EDT

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The guy the took the pics didn't have any of the gun I guess.

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Its the little pointy brass things in your cleaning kit.

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:47:07 PM EDT

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Whoopsie. Guess I will triple-check the end of the Dewey rods when I'm done cleaning.

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:49:05 PM EDT

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I get anxious if I don't see my cotton come out the barrel and I'll stop until I find it... What goes in the barrel has to come out the barrel.

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:50:03 PM EDT

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People don't do the thumbnail in the breech and sight down the barrel to check cleanliness anymore?
This accident could never happen to me. Derp.

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Posted: 10/23/2014 3:50:16 PM EDT

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At least it didn't ruffle his shelf like brow(s).

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:50:45 PM EDT

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How do you even manage to get a jag in your barrel without the rod or cable...and then forget it's there? Or did he get it stuck and just figure he'd shoot it out?

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:50:45 PM EDT

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Yup. From the face cut it looks like the action let go.

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Yup. From the face cut it looks like the action let go.

But the picture showing the jag in the end of the barrel shows no barrel damage
I would expect some barrel damage

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:50:48 PM EDT

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That was the shooter.

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:51:15 PM EDT

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Who cleans their rifles??

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:52:20 PM EDT

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Nice piece of brass imbedded in his head

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:52:25 PM EDT

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But the picture showing the jag in the end of the barrel shows no barrel damage
I would expect some barrel damage

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Yup. From the face cut it looks like the action let go.

But the picture showing the jag in the end of the barrel shows no barrel damage
I would expect some barrel damage

Sounds like it happened at the action. "Jag was still in the barrel, loaded a round and pulled the trigger, over pressure opened up the action and the brass hit him in the face."

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:52:47 PM EDT

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The guy the took the pics didn't have any of the gun I guess.

Its the little pointy brass things in your cleaning kit.

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Wtf is a Jag

Its the little pointy brass things in your cleaning kit.

What's a cleaning kit? Guns need cleaning? So confused

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:52:50 PM EDT

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Hhhmmm...
Hope you're not next.
NEVER say never

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:56:00 PM EDT

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This is how contender's kaboom.

Posted: 10/23/2014 3:59:14 PM EDT

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Hhhmmm...
Hope you're not next.
NEVER say never

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People don't do the thumbnail in the breech and sight down the barrel to check cleanliness anymore?
This accident could never happen to me. Derp.

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Hhhmmm...
Hope you're not next.
NEVER say never

I know, never say never, but my cleaning routine consists of using compressed air to do a final clean/dry of the barrel, then a visual of the rifling. I'm kinda OCD about it.

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Posted: 10/23/2014 4:02:33 PM EDT

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And that's why you wear eye protection...

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:04:48 PM EDT

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Wow.
That had to hurt.

As to OP, how do you manage to leave just the jag in the barrel?

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:09:02 PM EDT

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Maybe patch was tight, unthreaded jag on withdrawal stroke?

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:12:32 PM EDT

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Fify

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:16:06 PM EDT

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He's damn lucky he kept his eye.

I bet he never does that again.

Also want to see pics of the gun.

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:16:35 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/23/2014 4:19:14 PM EDT

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Now I remember why break action centerfire rifles are a thing of the 1800s.

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:19:52 PM EDT

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Looks like he's still at the range in those pics, so he might of done just that!

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:20:11 PM EDT

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The guy the took the pics didn't have any of the gun I guess.

Its the little pointy brass things in your cleaning kit.

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The guy the took the pics didn't have any of the gun I guess.

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Wtf is a Jag

Its the little pointy brass things in your cleaning kit.

Thanks. Learned something on ARFCOM today. Never knew that's what they were called.

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:21:01 PM EDT

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So bugs bunny was right, I knew it.

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:21:08 PM EDT

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People don't do the thumbnail in the breech and sight down the barrel to check cleanliness anymore?
This accident could never happen to me. Derp.

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This, really. I always check the barrel after cleaning.

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:23:17 PM EDT

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A little super glue and some butterflies and he will be fine. Chicks dig scars.

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:26:22 PM EDT

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if the pic was just the scope, i would think it just rolled off the table and hit the carpet

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:26:25 PM EDT

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Holy smokes... that would be like holding onto a pipe bomb.

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:27:22 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/23/2014 4:27:23 PM EDT

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Damn

Posted: 10/23/2014 4:30:00 PM EDT

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People don't do the thumbnail in the breech and sight down the barrel to check cleanliness anymore?
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Benchrest shooter... I'll bet he was doing the retarded "shoot/clean/shoot/clean/shoot/clean" barrel break-in and got distracted.