How NOT to do it.

[Ransom]

Here is the description of how a young man killed himself while working with a black powder gun. Be glad this poor guy wasn't a member of your group...or, maybe it would have helped if he was, and he'd have learned proper safety, and still be alive.

From the Darwin Award list...Where people take themselves out of the gene pool by doing something incredibly stupid.

A cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, IN. A Jay

Countryman,

using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzle loader, was killed

Monday night when

the weapon discharged in his face, sheriffs' investigators said. Gregory David

Pryor, 19, died

in his parents'

rural Dunkirk home at about 11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a

54-caliber

muzzle-loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to

look into the

barrel when the gunpowder ignited.

[wes1761]

What part of "Muzzle ALWAYS pointed in a safe direction" dont people get?

[jendobyns]

Sigh, sorry about that, it wasn't supposed to be a reply at all!

Here is the description of how a young man killed himself while working with a black powder gun. Be glad this poor guy wasn't a member of your group...or, maybe it would have helped if he was, and he'd have learned proper safety, and still be alive.

From the Darwin Award list...Where people take themselves out of the gene pool by doing something incredibly stupid.

A cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, IN. A Jay

Countryman,

using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzle loader, was killed

Monday night when

the weapon discharged in his face, sheriffs' investigators said. Gregory David

Pryor, 19, died

in his parents'

rural Dunkirk home at about 11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a

54-caliber

muzzle-loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to

look into the

barrel when the gunpowder ignited.

Edited August 25, 2010 by jendobyns

[Capn Bob]

Oy gevalt! (facepalm)

Here is the description of how a young man killed himself while working with a black powder gun. Be glad this poor guy wasn't a member of your group...or, maybe it would have helped if he was, and he'd have learned proper safety, and still be alive.

From the Darwin Award list...Where people take themselves out of the gene pool by doing something incredibly stupid.

A cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, IN. A Jay

Countryman,

using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzle loader, was killed

Monday night when

the weapon discharged in his face, sheriffs' investigators said. Gregory David

Pryor, 19, died

in his parents'

rural Dunkirk home at about 11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a

54-caliber

muzzle-loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to

look into the

barrel when the gunpowder ignited.