Click goes the gun. Have any of you ever done this?

"...shoot that close to the ground..." Better and safer to shoot towards the ground than into the air. However, I was out shooting ground hogs with a 10 shot semi-auto .22, long ago. Had a terrible day of it. Missed ever friggin' shot. Including the one where I was literally standing on top of the hole(it went down a couple feet then went right) when the chuck stuck his head around the bend and looked up at me. "Gotcha!", thinks me. CLICK! says my rifle. that had no last shot hold open(Cooey M64). Both the ground hog and I started to laugh.
 
The last moose I shot, I rested my rifle over my hand on a boulder and shot it at 320 yards. I heard the bullet hit, but as usual the moose was less than impressed. When I pulled the trigger a second time, click! Must be a bad primer, I thought. Ejecting the cartridge I tried again. Click! Oh oh! My last cartridge went bang and the moose finally figured out that he was dead.

I found one of the ejected cartridges and the primer was barely dented. That evening I took the bolt apart and though it looked clean, I ran a patch with solvent all the way to the front of the bolt and gave it a good scrubbing. The patch came out covered with gunk which had prevented the firing pin from fully striking the primer. Lesson learned, you need to clean the inside of the bolt from time to time. I fired more than a dozen shots while checking the sights and fowling the barrel before the hunt with no problem, but Murphy's law kicked in on the moose. I have discovered since that a .410 shotgun brush is perfect for cleaning most bolts.
 
Hasn't happened to me YET...but this year I was deer hunting with a friend and on our way across a field to the truck we had 2 does run out of the woods in front of us. They stopped just before the thicket and turned and looked at us. He got his rifle up faster than me and when presented with a shot he got the dreaded "click" I heard his rifle xlick. I hear him loudly whisper "crap" and "shoot er shoot er" I got my rifle up put her in my sights pushed the safety off and BOOM. Off handed weak sided and in a hurry I hit her right where I aimed at ~75 yards she went 20 yards before she fell. His bad luck was my gain lol. And he's a great friend because he didn't get upset he was very happy for me.
 
Never had a gun go click, but I have gotten out of the truck only to discover I left my ammo at home a couple of times. I've gone for a walk with an unloaded gun once, got back in the truck and went home the other time.
 
I had a box of 30-30 ammo, in which about every third round was a dud. I hunted with those rounds for a couple of seasons. It was fun wondering if this round would fire when ever I sighted on an animal. I felt it was catch and release for deer and hogs.
 
Clickgoes the gun have any of you ever done this

More than once.Then I went deer hunting leaving my rifle ammo and billfold, 180 mils back home.
Heard two deer fighting, over a long time. Cover too thick to move in on them.
I st in a cope of trees and her comes very nice 8 pointer running. Easy shot. I kept pressing on the safety but it wouldn't budge.
It was a Wby MkV and the safety on right side behind bolt has to be rotated up.
I guess it was buck fever.
Then I put my pistol in the refrigerator, the phone in my holster. It fit fairly well. ....I dunno.
 
I was sitting in one of my favorite elk spots as the morning light made the shadows fade. About the time I expected to see a herd of elk I heard a distant pop. Sounded like a 22 long rifle on the far side of the clear cut. Then another, and another. I thought " some knit wit is shooting at grouse on opening day of muzzle loader elk season". About 45 minutes later I walked over to see what was up. One of the other hunters was holding a rag on his hand and he was mad. He had a bull at 25 yards, broadside. His gun went pop several times. He thought the nipple was plugged, so he tried to pull the bullet. His hand slipped on the rod that was stuck down the barrel. A sharp burr cut his hand open. Come to find out, he had forgotten to load it. :rolleyes:. It is public land .....So.... More elk for me :D
 
I think I've posted this before, but anyway, deer hunting with a muzzleloader. Was new to the black powder thing. Cleaned the gun the night before, thought I only used a little oil on it and had wiped it down well enough, thought the bore was clean and oil free. Never popped a primer through it. Hunted the whole next day and decided to fire it at a tree at the end of the day as I wasn't planning to hunt again that year as the season was almost over.
Apparently my cleaning wasn't as good as I thought. Must have had the 777 pellets soaking up oil all day. The primer went off, and then there was a noise that sounded like a whooshing sound. Out pops the bullet, bounced off the tree. One of the powder pellets following, and burning through the air.
Never have used oil on any black powder guns since, except for an external wipe down.
Really glad I never saw a deer that day.
So it wasn't a click, but still a misfire, user induced:eek:
 
I've done it myself hog hunting at night with an AR, and I've had a couple guests do it as well when they were with me. When you're out at night with flash lights, head lamps, IR lights, IR lasers, night vision, thermal, guns, magazines, knives, DVRs to record hunts, predator calls etc, every once in a while when im night hunting with lots of cool gear, something doesn't get checked off the list.. I try not to make a habit out of it but the few times it's happened it's usually when Im keeping an eye on someone else trying to safely show them a good time and having to prep extra gear for them. But no excuses... so ya I've screwed up and done it a couple times.


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..... I left the cable for my scopes MDVR at home tonight. Killed a decent sized boar, but no video :/


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Hunting with a Blackhawk one day, a real nice three point buck stopped only thirty feet away, looking back over his shoulder, did not see me at all. Took a bead on him and squeezed, but nothing happened. I was wearing fingerless wool gloves and the hammer spur got caught on the glove in the web between thumb and forefinger. The buck heard me cursing under my breath and took off. I did shoot a smaller one only moments later.
 
Not a click but went out PPheasant hunting,,

ginger my Springer flushed a rooster.

Fired first and second shots and pulled the fore end off the O/U was using.
Ginger looked over her shoulder and gave me a "look" i will never forget!
 
Just read the last post and laughed out loud. :) Ginger was the name of my second Cocker Spaniel (about 66 years ago.) Ginger's color was . . .

Ginger . . . but more brown than red.

My first Cocker was Coke (as in black); not named after today's favorite self-poison.
 
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Dogs are the worst buddies when you miss.

I have a friend who has a 10 year old Britney. Great dog but I think it's def.
We were hunting this field and Willy (the dog) was going wild. Left, right, left, right, fast slow. Must have been like that for 30-40 minutes. Then we reached a small road and out of a lone bush Willy flushed 3 pheasants. I shot one and Sean shot the other two. But Willy wouldn't fetch them.

I'm always quick to reload so mid reload on my double barrel Willy flushed a 4th. I pulled the gun up and click. The bird got a few more yards before the second barrel took it out.

It was a good day and Willy was rewarded heavily.

It's great watching a good dog work.
 
My BIL (now ex BIL) and I were varmint hunting. We came out of the edge of the woods and there was a coyote sitting about 15 yds. away. He had a .22 mag and I had a nylon 66 so I whispered to him to shoot it in the head. Well, he shot, and the coyote started turning in circles biting at its hind leg. I saw that it wasn't mortally wounded, so I shot it in the chest until it fell down.
He was the worst shot I ever saw. I could outshoot him with open sights when he had a scope, and if he had open sights with a rifle, I could outshoot him with a pistol.


When I shot a pump shotgun, it was common to pull the trigger on an empty chamber while in a hot dove field.
 
With a rimfire shooting prairie dogs, I've had several. With a centerfire rifle while hunting, never. Two separate times I've had nothing but my cap fire while muzzle loader hunting with deer in my sights, so I switched to inline and 209 ignition. I've never had a miss fire or hang fire since.
 
I have had it happen twice. Once was where I left on the safety on a Marlin 1895. The hammer dropped, but no boom. Reset and managed to drop the pig.

The other time was with an AR15 and I had a fouled firing pin that would not punch the primer hard enough. Partner covered for me and shot the pig.
 
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