Originally Posted by
Glenn E. Meyer
Ever hear of this? At today's match, we were talking about ammo caused booboos. Usually it was a double loaded home brew that blew up a gun. A guy I've seen shoot for years told us this one.
He was taking the TX CHL test and shooting from behind a taller bench. He had a box of ammo open (styrofoam holding the rounds). Thus, the gun muzzle was close to the box. When he fired a round, he felt a boom and shrapnel. Thought the gun blew but the muzzle blast over the rounds, set about 5 of them off and the casings flew up and tagged him. Said he had Winchester imprinted backwards in his flesh.
Weird - and I have no reason to think he would make this up.