.223 shot through my 6.8....whoops!

[Doublelunger]

Shot the 6.8 today and somehow a round of .223 got in the mix.  Here's what it looks like.   Don't bash on me too hard I already feel like a big dummy 

[Ranger91298]

Just glad your ok... could have been alot worse!!!

[MadHatter]

Ouch... First and foremost, it sounds like you are ok... The second question is did the rifle make it out ok?  Can't imagine that it would have done too much damage to the chamber but might be worth getting the chamber inspected on it before shooting it again...

Looks like a good lesson for us all the learn, if you shoot similar sized calibers/casings to make sure you know what you are loading up!

Hell, I had my first ND in 25 years of firearm handling about a month ago, just goes to show that we all make mistakes... Scared the living f*** out of me too...

[Ranger91298]

Hell, I had my first ND in 25 years of firearm handling about a month ago, just goes to show that we all make mistakes... Scared the living f*** out of me too...

I had a similar experience. I was being an idiot and unloading my rifle in my dads Dodge Ram 2500. With that rifle you have to have it on fire to unload it. Well the trigger caught the edge of the seat and fired inside the cab with the windows up. When the rifle went off the barrel was against the floor and on the edge of my foot. After the ear drums were done ringing so bad I looked at my foot as it was feeling numb after the concussion created by the shot; I was not sure if it actually went through my foot at that point. I was lucky it did not but the round went through the floor board barely missing the drive shaft. It hit the frame and ricocheted and almost hit the tire. My dad took it alot better than I thought he would. To this day it is a lasting punchline for a joke for new hunters at elk camp that I shot a "Ram" one year. I think I was more upset with my carelessness than my dad was. Since then I have been extremely cautious with handling a firearm.

[Heredoggydoggy]

Don't feel bad.  Easy mistake to make.  I did just the opposite once--tried to put 6.8 rounds into a 223.  luckily, they wouldn't chamber!

[Doublelunger]

I'm ok.  My gun looks ok, but I'll probably take it in and have it looked at.  Lesson learned...the hard way of course.

[Heredoggydoggy]

A guy was at the range a couple of years ago sighting in his 300 Ultra Mag rifle for hunting season.  He kept saying: "This gun isn't shooting worth a darn!"  He packed up and left, leaving his brass lay there, so they were checked out--turned out he was shooting 300 Win Mag ammo.  They didn't look that bad, either, except the necks were REAL SHORT! 

[splitshot]

  by accident i shot a 30-06 in my 7 mag and it shot well but got stuck and took a ramrod to unstuck it.  wierd cuz i dont have an 06.  mike w

[splitshot]

  my mistake, it was a 270 shot by mistake, sorry.  mike w

[Heredoggydoggy]

A friend of mine told me about the time he saw a buck, and grabbed his 30-06 rifle, and shot at the deer 5 times, and never touched it.  Then he looked at the shells, and he had grabbed the 270 shells someone had given him.  And he didn't even own a 270 rifle....

[splitshot]

   yep, dumb stuff happens and you feel like a doof.  i dont know what a doof is but i are one.    mike w

[MadHatter]

I had a guy come in to the range I worked at with his new rifle... He bought it about 3hrs prior with 4 boxes of ammo to sight it in.  So he takes his lead sled down, and shoots about 2 boxes of ammo and comes back and gets me.  He tells me it isn't shooting at all... Like its shooting a 24" spread at 25yds... So I grab a new target and head down and he asks me to shoot it... So I load up a magazine, put 3rds down range and all three are about 8" apart and all keyholed... So I look at his rifle, it says .22WMR and then look down at the pile of brass with necked cases at my feet.. When he asked the clerk at GI Joes for ammo for the rifle he was buying they handed him 4 boxes of .17HMR... I felt bad for the guy and gave him a box of .22WMR for free and low and behold, it was shooting same hole groups...

The lesson there was to always check the *censored* behind the counter... He may not be having a good day, or even just be too stupid to grab the right ammo for your rifle... I told him he is very lucky it wasn't the other way around or he or one of his kids could have been injured...

[Biggerhammer]

It happens, I've fired a 7mm Magnum through a .300 Win Mag. Had several Remington Sendero's. one in 7 Mag and the other in .300 Winnie. Grabbed the wrong reload box and after the first round I noticed the short necked fire formed case upon ejection. Looked at the head stamp and sure enough a 7 mag had popped out of my .300. No harm done, my first thought was "Crap! now I have to drive all the way back and get the right box/ammo." It was a complete none issue.

[mountainman]

Shot the 6.8 today and somehow a round of .223 got in the mix.  Here's what it looks like.   Don't bash on me too hard I already feel like a big dummy 

Glad it wasnt any worse! I load for several like calibers..243/260/7/08/308, and have yet to have this misfortune..Could happen, knock on wood, but just like when reloading, I keep things plainly marked and apart from each other.

[CastleRocker]

I got a sporterized 1917 Enfield in a trade.  Figured I'd better check it for function, so I grabbed a box of '06 shells off the shelf and went out back to my shooting bench.  Looked it over real quick, and as it was starting to rain REAL hard, I hurried and stuck a shell in it, got behind it, sqeeeeezze...(stock Enfield trigger broke at around 12lbs), and CLICK!  Well, now I don't even want to open the bolt.  Waited a bit, opened it up, and there is an almost microscopic mark on the primer.  Took the bolt apart real quick, (my sandbags are getting really wet by now), nothing looks wrong, put it back together, same shell, same result.  This time when I pick the gun up, I hear the shell rattle in the chamber.  I open the bolt, and look at the face.  It's way too big!  Some kitchen table gunsmith with a lathe and a reamer had opened this one up.  I when back into the shop, poured some Alox down the chamber and found it to be 300 Win Mag. 

GLAD that round didn't go bang.  Enfields are pretty strong, but that could've been really, really BAD.