My pump action jammed once, it wouldn't eject empty shells, and therefore wouldn't load a new round. I used the 'put the new round in via the ejection port' method. Worked pretty well. Not as fast as it should have been, but pretty fast.
Later determined that a 9mm shell had somehow ended up BEHIND the bolt! The best I can come up with is that at the firing range, the 9mm round had been ejected from someone else's weapon (left-handed ejecting?) and magically come IN the ejection port as I was firing... I don't keep my brass, so I can't see it having happened while I was cleaning...
My favorite was still the semi-automatic shotgun a roommate in college owned. That was (no pun intended, really,) a BLAST to fire. Being irresponsible college students, we'd fire on empty beer bottles out at the quarry (the bottles having been emptied long before we left... We weren't stupid enough to drink and drive or drink and shoot.) WIth that gun, I managed to hit the same bottle twice. Shot the neck off on the first shot, then disintegrated the whole bottle on the second shot. Proud to say that I was the only one out of three that managed to hit the same bottle twice. |
