A break from the gungeon norm... and a question.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

So a buddy and I were at a shooting competition about 2 weeks ago.
While mulling around between rounds I happened upon a perfectly fine (but hand-loaded) 9mm.
I showed him the find and he asked me a question. I was caught off guard but throughly amused.

Him: "Interesting find. Let me ask, do you know what one finds at the end of a trail of breadcrumbs?"
Me (puzzled): "Two children pushing a witch into a stove?"
Him: "Ok. If one finds two children burning a witch at the end of a breadcrumb trail... what do you find at the end of a trail of unfired .40's? Can you just imagine such a Fairy Tale?"
Me: .40's? Like. .40s&w bullets? WTF?

And so I ask the gungeon... what does one find at the end of a trail of unfired .40's?
Personally, at the time, I found the query hilarious. What DOES one find at the end of a trail of fo-tays

**PS - fearing that the round I recovered might be a "9mm Major" (basically a VERY hot loaded 9mm) I did not keep or fire it.
I merely threw it away. Never shoot ammo you suspect is reloaded and is from an unknown source.

[Bold Lib]

1. An ammo box with a hole in it?

[oneshooter]

2. Somebody with a broken firing pin?

As for the 9mm you found, I reload and simply break them down, throw away the powder( modern powders are nitrogen based and the bermuda grass in the yard love it!)reload with my load and reuse the bullet. If it was a bad primer I will replace the primer too.

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas

[spin]

3. It's a damn good idea to stay away from reloads ...

if you don't know that the source is reliable.

I've shot many reloaded .38 caliber rounds that I've bought at the range. Even those can have problems. Several times I've fired a round which had no powder and the primer pushed the bullet into the barrel. It took a brass rod to tap the bullet back out.

Fortunately, I was aware that I had a problem and didn't try firing any more rounds. If the firearm would have been damaged, the company that reloaded the ammo would have replaced my firearm with a new one.

One of my shooting buddies who had reloaded his ammo for many years accidentally double or triple charged a hot .357 round and totally destroyed a S&W revolver. The top strap of the revolver was gone and the cylinder split in half. Pieces of the revolver destroyed a spotting scope he had attached to his shooting box and he had a hasty cut from the fragments on his forehead. He believed that his mistake was leaving his powder measure full of powder over night. He suspected the powder got slightly damp and clumped, delivering the over change.

I reloaded my ammo for years and never had any problems with a round lacking powder or being over changed. Fortunately.

[benEzra]

4. A broken magazine floorplate.

That happened to me once, years ago, with an old Ram-Line clear polymer magazine for a Ruger mini-14. I was loading it, got about 20 rounds in, and the floorplate retaining tabs cracked and sent the floorplate, the magazine, and all 20 rounds all over the floor. Would be a real bummer for that to happen in a pinch!

[SteveM]

5. A .45?

[DissedByBush]

6. One really drunk dude n/t

[aikoaiko]

7. someone very professional.

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[sam sarrha]

8. my buddies in Viet Nam reloaded AK-47 rounds with C4, dropped them around while on patrol, Garth

said while under siege at a fire camp they loaded them in canisters and had the Howitzer send some over their lines.:nuke: :nuke:

[dashrif]

9. Me

and my firestar m40 when my firing pin was busted, gunsmith made me a new one so now I don't leave treats around just empty wrappers.