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Originally Posted by Torqaholic
You're not the only one that's scared. This poor guy is probably going to flinch every time he pulls a trigger for the rest of his life.
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I had a wing come off a percussion cap and smack me in the eye. Lucky it didn't cut or embed itself in my pupil. Gave me a black eye and a terrible headache just from it. We seldom draw our ramrods or ram paper from the cartridge. We only do it at memorial services to go through the entire load and fire routine. We had fired one volley and the command was to load for the next. I ripped the cartridge and poured the black powder down my barrel...boom! Some of the paper must have still been in the bottom and burning from the previous round. We practice as much safety as possible. We keep the barrel turned away from face and others beside us. It did embed black powder grains into the skin of the fingers that were over the barrel when it ignited and a good burn from it. I still flinch a little and refuse to ram paper.