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On a recent hunt I had the evil 6.5 rear its ugly head and jam my 6.8 up. I made the critical error of loading mags when was watching YouTube videos and didn't notice that a 6.5 was in my box of 200 Hornady 110 g Hollow Points. Threw it in the mag without noticing. Flash foward to the next night at 2:00 AM. A ton of hogs in the field, we put a stalk on, got all set up with our rigs and tripods. Safe off, 3, 2, bang, hit one! Then the 6.5 devil jammed me up!! It's dark, so I'm ripping on the charging handle try to eject whatever is in there out. I miss all the rest of the action. Flip my headlight on and looked in the chamber. WTF is going on here? Had to pop it out with a screwdriver, I'm looking at this round like an idiot. I couldn't figure out where it came from. I don't own a Grendel, neither do the guys I was with. When I got home the other day, I went back through the box and found 9 more!!! I don't remember where I got the box or if it was sealed.
Lesson learned!! Pay attention when your loading mags or you'll miss out on all the fun!
Anyone need 9 6.5 Grendel rounds?
Lesson learned!! Pay attention when your loading mags or you'll miss out on all the fun!
Anyone need 9 6.5 Grendel rounds?
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I had something similar happen to me once. I had my old Ruger Vaquero out shooting targets at the pistol range. It is chambered in 45 long colt. Had bought a couple boxes of factory Remington ammo there at the range. Was plinking away, all the sudden the next shot sounded funny, and went about 6 inches high and 6 inches right, I cocked the hammer and tried another, this one was even higher and to the left, and had a funny sound again. I tried to unload it and see what was going on, and those two empty cases were stuck in the cylinder and I couldn't get them out. I took it home and had to pull the cylinder out of the pistol, and realized the two that were stuck were actually 44 mag rounds, not 45 long colt. There was 6, 44 mag rounds in the box of 50. This was a new box of factory loaded ammo, that I bought at the range. I always double check mine now.
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