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Grocery Bang!

2008 Reader Submission
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One day I ran into my lifelong freind Brad Cook and noticed that he had what looked like a bullet hole in the side of his truck. The only thing was the metal was pushed out instead of in which meant the shot came from inside the truck. So I asked?

It was black powder season here in Kentucky and he had been hunting Whitetail deer. No luck one particular day so instead of discharging his blackpowder rifle before loading it into his truck, he placed the rifle into the back part of his Ford Ranger Extended Cab. He also did not take the the firing cap off the nipple and lowered the hammer safely onto the cap.

Now, if you now anything about blackpowder rifles, they have a firing cap that is placed over the nipple. The mechanism in which the lead ball exits the barrel is like this once the blackpowder rifle has been loaded 1.) The hammer is cocked 2.) A firing cap is placed over the nippple 3.) Aim the gun at your target and pull the trigger 4.) Hammer falls, hits the firing pin, ignites the powder, and the bullet exits the barrel

Soooooooo, his wife Angie needed to go to the grocery and borrow the truck. No problem, and before she leaves, Brad tells her be careful with the rifle in the cab. She goes to the grocery, loads the truck up and comes back. Brad is sitting there on the couch and heres a loud bang outside. He runs outside to see what happened and Angie is standing there, groceries in hand, in shambles and a bullet hole is in the side of the truck. When she picked up the grocery bag it caught the blackpowder rifle hammer and lifted it just enough so when it fell the gun discharged. Luckily, she was not gut shot like a deer but now where was the bullet? It went straight across the street and went through a old ladies front door that just happened to not be standing there and stuck in her living room wall.

If thats not a Darwin Award, I don't know what one is.

Matt Hardin

P.S. Brad I Love ya but damn your dumb.

Submitted on 02/27/2008

Submitted by: Matt Hardin
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James said:
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No need to explain black powder weapons (ie a rifled musket where the powder and shot is loaded and rammed down the weapon's barrel), as they were the primary infantry weapon from c. 1700 to 1870. The percussion cap variety appeared circa 1840 or so. Suffice to say a gun is a gun, and black powder weapons have always been finicky as hell (ie prone to misfiring or alternately going off whenever they felt like it), and storing a loaded one in the back of a truck is just asking for trouble! And trouble it was, though thankfully no one was hurt! I feel sorry for your friend's wife (it wasn't her fault), but hopefully she let your friend have it after that near miss! Thanks, Matt! A funny PA indeed!


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
As a PA, this is a pretty funny one. What would have made this a true DA is if he'd been in the line of fire when the rifle went off. Thanks, Matt!


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