The last couple of years
I haven’t had the time to shoot in any matches, because I have worked bloody nearly every weekend.
So a couple weeks ago when I shot the Africa match, it was a great pleasure and a lot of fun. I scored a 35, and the first place guy took it home with a 15.
I should have done better.
When the results were published I found that I DID actually do better, but I had two misfires on the Hornady Leverevolution I was using. This is the regulated round for the 45-70 barrels, and I have shot several boxes with zero trouble- but not this time. The two misfires cost me 14 and 15 seconds respectively, and my instinct was not to eject an unfired perhaps hangfiring case over my shoulder at bystanders so I turned the barrels up and ejected the bad rounds at my feet. Doing that after a count of five (to try to minimize the possibility of hangfire) and reloading cost some time.
I have sent an email to Hornady. The 29 seconds this cost me (My shooting was pretty damned good) would have taken my score to a 6, winning me the match.
Wasn’t like there was a cash prize or anything, but damn. You hate to have an equipment failure like that.
Yeah, given the prep, the chance of it happening with a big snarly inbound are a lot higher.
That would make the sphincter pucker.
Congrats on the good shooting.
Please let us know what Hornady says in response to your e-mail… It’s very rare to get one mis /hang fire in factory loaded ammo, but 2 ?! … By chance did these rounds come from the same box or lot ??
Yep, same box same lot.
Was that a box out of your stockpile that has been improperly stored in a high humidity environment, like the sump hole in your basement?
How about light primer strikes?
Two? From one box? That’s very bad, especially with ammo of that type.