Bonehead mistakes

[imtrigerhapy]

So i did a thing. I havent shot my avenger .25 in a couple months. So here I am feeling froggy and figure why not. So I load a magazine and fire at a box 32 yards away. I watch the pelet spiral and hit about 1.5inch right thinking thats odd i send another watch the spiral and it hits 1.5 inch right 1 inch hi. Scratching my head i shoot rest of mag total 10 rounds about as perfect as a 3inch group can get. Go to load another mag and i see my mistake...i loaded all the pellets in first mag backwards. I pull a paych through and back to one hole groups. Morale of the story dont neglect ypu guns and shoot often so dumb little mistakes dont happen. Happy shooting everyone

 

[Privateer]

I did a backwards load once on my FX Dream Lite.
Cost me a .25 barrel liner.

 

[Ranchibi]

Don't feel bad, we all do things that makes us go h'mmm....

 

[6gun]

I did a backwards load once on my FX Dream Lite.
Cost me a .25 barrel liner.

How did it wreck your liner?

 

[6gun]

Don't feel bad, we all do things that makes us go h'mmm....

Short stroking the bolt on my gen1 mrod 25 and getting a double load in there, firing, blowing the air stripper and baffles to smithereens.

 

[Vana2]

Yup, bone-head mistakes.

I shot a grackle on the lawn and was surprised to see a beautiful rainbow appear... the hose was easy to fix, the grackle was beyond repair.

Cheers!

 

[Privateer]

How did it wreck your liner?

Stacked 6 in the barrel and tried to hammer them out.
Ended up with bulges in that liner. I only drill stuck pellets out now!
Whole thread about that learning event!

 

[JimD]

I started loading my Avenger magazine backward last time I was using it. I was thinking it was overly difficult to load. Then when I went to put it in I saw the problem and fixed it. It is not hard to get a little confused with multiple guns that have magazines that load differently. You have to put the first pellet in backward on SPA magazines, for instance. But the 3d printed replacements I use load normally. Certainly not impossible to keep straight but not impossible to mess up either.

 

[Privateer]

Not admitting I'm an idiot or any such thing........
But I put a dab of red paint on my mags now to indicate the breech end.

 

[imtrigerhapy]

I started loading my Avenger magazine backward last time I was using it. I was thinking it was overly difficult to load. Then when I went to put it in I saw the problem and fixed it. It is not hard to get a little confused with multiple guns that have magazines that load differently. You have to put the first pellet in backward on SPA magazines, for instance. But the 3d printed replacements I use load normally. Certainly not impossible to keep straight but not impossible to mess up either.

Exactly whay happened i was even thinking i didnt remember it being a pain to load lol

 

[KaosRifle]

Haven't backwards loaded but I can't keep track of the amount of times I have double loaded.

 

[Arkansas_Airgunner]

Not sure if this qualifies as a bonehead mistake or not but.......i have a new Leshy 2 in .25 cal......& hadn't shot it in a few weeks so i decided to. Sitting down trying to load the mag and my pellets didn't fit. I was like wtf is this? Rifle, .25------pellet tin says .25-----wtf over? Thinking i have a 25 cal lid on a tin of my .30 cal stuff, i dig out another can of .25-----same damn issue. After about half hour it dawned on me------hey dumbass, that ring comes off to load the mag and then hold everything in place when u put it back on....yeah. that was me. Felt pretty damn stupid for a while. Luckily nobody around to see me do that...

 

[imbrbing]

Yup, bone-head mistakes.

I shot a grackle on the lawn and was surprised to see a beautiful rainbow appear... the hose was easy to fix, the grackle was beyond repair.

Cheers!

Had to laugh at this one

 

[PGinsandiego]

Did someone say Boneheaded mistakes? Gosh I could write a book. my most expensive bonehead event was the time I tried to put a .177 LDC on my Drozd blackbird (BB gun) to quiet it down, and shot it on full auto. The BB's clipped the LDC and went straight thru my large dining room window! It was quieter though!

 

[kwaping]

I'm still new to all this, but for all the other newbies out there...

Always check your fill hose connections before turning on the air! Give each one a good tug.

 

[delooper]

I've done so many I forget most of them. Most recent was my son (so, pretty much my fault) when I took him to the range for the first time. Put the Leshiy 2 in his hands and before he even looked down the sights he put his finger on the trigger and let off a shot, without realizing it. Gun was pointed down-range but it was a "teachable moment".

 

[Martin3528]

My biggest bone head mistake was getting started in this whole airgun thing!

 

[Booder98]

I got the regulated gauge on my Avenger confused with the unregulated side. I was doing too many things at once, and peeking at the gauge every once in a while. "Hmm, that's taking a long time." *bam* blew the burst disk out of my pump. It was my CS2, which doesn't have an auto-shutoff. Scared me s**tless. As a bonus I got to change the o-rings in several places in the gun.

 

[stovepipe]

I ruined the first rifle scope I ever bought -- not this century -- 19xx. For some damn reason I wanted to set the crosshair to optical center. I figured if I crank the turrets all the way in one direction and count the clicks to go to all the way in the other direction and back off half the number of clicks, then I'd be there. Finding the edge of internal adjustment didn't just come to a complete and instant stop like I thought it would. It just got harder and harder to rotate the turret. I could never get good groups with that scope. Hmmm... I wonder why?

stovepipe

 

[kwaping]

I ruined the first rifle scope I ever bought -- not this century -- 19xx. For some damn reason I wanted to set the crosshair to optical center. I figured if I crank the turrets all the way in one direction and count the clicks to go to all the way in the other direction and back off half the number of clicks, then I'd be there. Finding the edge of internal adjustment didn't just come to a complete and instant stop like I thought it would. It just got harder and harder to rotate the turret. I could never get good groups with that scope. Hmmm... I wonder why?

stovepipe

That sounds like a story that will definitely save someone else some grief later on.