Accidental shooting

[henry_o]

Hi folks.

Just been reading today's telegraph and there's an article about a guy tripping whilst out shooting and shot his mate dead on Friday night in Shropshire. Another tragic accident...

 

I could have had an accident myself whilst lamping the other night. I was out bunny bashing with the hmr and a bullet lodged itself in my barrel. I recycled a round and was nearly ready to fire again thinking the previous round was something less important. Then I thought I'll just have a look and sure enough the bullet was just down past the chamber. I'm glad I didn't shoot again! These things can happen too easily.

 

Henry

[Boristhedog]

This problem with HMR ammunition is becoming too regular to be considered acceptable by the shooting community. As mentioned in a previous thread this happened to me a couple of weeks ago. In addition, I had a couple of delayed 'misfires', ie squeeze the trigger and a noticeable delay before the shot fires (only a matter of fractions of a second) but long enough to realise that it wasn't right.

 

What's the general feeling about this? I feel it's potentially very serious, particularly if someone gets hurt, and it will happen; we cannot continue to be this lucky.

 

I'm tempted to hand the remaining 400 or so bullets back to the dealer (from the last lot of 500 I bought) and seek a full refund (not merchantable quality) and potentially lethal.

 

Any views on the likelihood of this being accepted by the dealer?

[Shropshire_Lad]

the latest on local radio was he shot himself??

[henry_o]

This problem with HMR ammunition is becoming too regular to be considered acceptable by the shooting community. As mentioned in a previous thread this happened to me a couple of weeks ago. In addition, I had a couple of delayed 'misfires', ie squeeze the trigger and a noticeable delay before the shot fires (only a matter of fractions of a second) but long enough to realise that it wasn't right.

 

What's the general feeling about this? I feel it's potentially very serious, particularly if someone gets hurt, and it will happen; we cannot continue to be this lucky.

 

I'm tempted to hand the remaining 400 or so bullets back to the dealer (from the last lot of 500 I bought) and seek a full refund (not merchantable quality) and potentially lethal.

 

Any views on the likelihood of this being accepted by the dealer?

To be honest the only reason I thought about checking the barrel on the off chance was because I'd seen your thread. I'm a very careful shooter so who knows if I'd have checked it if I hadn't read about it. There was very little noise. It's very worrying knowing it has happened before and is going to happen again. I wouldn't know what a dealer would say? Do you think they could send their whole batch back to the supplier if they hadn't sold it so that the cost isn't against them? I suppose this is what recalls are for with many products but maybe these incidents aren't reported? I've gone through 1000 hornady blue tips without issue until now.

 

Henry

[henry_o]

the latest on local radio was he shot himself??

I don't know anything other than what was in the telegraph so I guess anything is possible with media speculation. It was a very small article so I guess they wait for more info to come alight before dedicating more space to it. It said he was 30 i think so hope he's got no kids. It would be interesting to know what's happened though. I bet there's a few ow members that have had a close shave. I count my hmr experience above as one!

 

Henry

[Shropshire_Lad]

Very, very sad. Seems like a tragic accident, lets hope as it reads the friend had nothing to do with this terrible accident, would be hard to live with anyway;

http://www.shropshirelive.com/2013/04/09/police-issue-statement-over-shropshire-shooting-tragedy/

 

atvb Paul.