My son came to Maine to spend Father's day with me. And, of course, he wanted to shoot! It's one of the things that he loves to do with me.
He hasn't fired my recent guns, including my .500 S&W Magnum (which I've had for a long time now. He hasn't been here when the weather was good enough to shoot it)...
So, after loading him up with a few cylinders full of lesser power rounds, he asked for the real deal.
I gave him some of the 700 grain full power rounds. We loaded the first couple one at a time. Knowing that a full cylinder full of those will have the bullets jar loose, we kept the round count at 3 in the cylinder. We should have stuck with the one per cylinder!
Here's a video of what can happen if you hold the gun with the wrong grip, and have more than one round in the cylinder. I could have lost my son that day....
He hasn't fired my recent guns, including my .500 S&W Magnum (which I've had for a long time now. He hasn't been here when the weather was good enough to shoot it)...
So, after loading him up with a few cylinders full of lesser power rounds, he asked for the real deal.
I gave him some of the 700 grain full power rounds. We loaded the first couple one at a time. Knowing that a full cylinder full of those will have the bullets jar loose, we kept the round count at 3 in the cylinder. We should have stuck with the one per cylinder!
Here's a video of what can happen if you hold the gun with the wrong grip, and have more than one round in the cylinder. I could have lost my son that day....
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