went522
10-06-2004, 12:16 AM
A few years back I was sighting in my 270 bolt the day before MN opener, after getting my rifle sighted where I wanted it I decided to take one final shot to make sure, BULLSEYE!! As I opened my bolt I heard something fall onto the concrete floor, my firing pin!!! It snapped in half!!! Seeing how I was 4 hours from home, I called my buddy who hunted in our group and asked if he had a extra rifle I could borrow till I got home to grab my extra. "No Problem" I have an extra semi-auto and just sighted it in last week. I didn't like the idea of 1) borrowing 2) not getting a chance to fire the rifle before I fired it at an animal. Need less to say I borrowed it.
As I'm sitting in my stand opening morning I spotted movement along a slashing, a nice doe, and she was moving quickly straight towards me. She was "hot" and had the biggest buck I had ever seen trailing her. As they made their way into my shooting lane I got a good look, a wide,heavy racked 10. He stopped at 20 yards! I put the cross hairs on his sweet spot and squeezed the trigger, NOTHING, not even a click! By now he was moving again and going straight away, my only chance was to manually eject a shell and hope it would free up whatever was "froze". He stopped and I put it back on him, squeezed the trigger, NOTHING.
I got down out of my stand and made my way back to camp! It was the longest walk I'd ever been on! When I got to camp my dad asked me if I'd seen anything? Well, I told the crew what had happened and my buddy the borrower started riding me, along with the rest of the crew, BUCK FEVER,BUCK FEVER, that rifle shoots perfectly fine! I handed it to him and told him to fire away. He set up a target got a steady rest and, WHAT THE #%$*, whats wrong with this #%&*# thing??? IT WON'T FIRE!!! So, we took it apart and it looked like someone took the trigger mechanism and dipped it in roofing tar! I don't think he cleaned that gun in 10 years! Every time we head out in the field together I ask if he's cleaned his gun lately? I have shot a few nice 8's since that incident, but still haven't seen one as big as that bruiser. I'LL NEVER BORROW A RIFLE AGAIN!!!!!!!
Anyone else had an experience like this, borrowed or not?
BIRDDOG
As I'm sitting in my stand opening morning I spotted movement along a slashing, a nice doe, and she was moving quickly straight towards me. She was "hot" and had the biggest buck I had ever seen trailing her. As they made their way into my shooting lane I got a good look, a wide,heavy racked 10. He stopped at 20 yards! I put the cross hairs on his sweet spot and squeezed the trigger, NOTHING, not even a click! By now he was moving again and going straight away, my only chance was to manually eject a shell and hope it would free up whatever was "froze". He stopped and I put it back on him, squeezed the trigger, NOTHING.
I got down out of my stand and made my way back to camp! It was the longest walk I'd ever been on! When I got to camp my dad asked me if I'd seen anything? Well, I told the crew what had happened and my buddy the borrower started riding me, along with the rest of the crew, BUCK FEVER,BUCK FEVER, that rifle shoots perfectly fine! I handed it to him and told him to fire away. He set up a target got a steady rest and, WHAT THE #%$*, whats wrong with this #%&*# thing??? IT WON'T FIRE!!! So, we took it apart and it looked like someone took the trigger mechanism and dipped it in roofing tar! I don't think he cleaned that gun in 10 years! Every time we head out in the field together I ask if he's cleaned his gun lately? I have shot a few nice 8's since that incident, but still haven't seen one as big as that bruiser. I'LL NEVER BORROW A RIFLE AGAIN!!!!!!!
Anyone else had an experience like this, borrowed or not?
BIRDDOG