Whoa. It's amazing that in our safety paranoid age these cartriges are
still around. I suppose the fact that they're rifle ammunition normally
conveys their inherant danger to people. Still, you're making me rethink
my choice of plinking guns. Perhaps one of these ruger 9mm rifles...
I have the mental image of my cat getting hold of a .22 rimfire. Ick.
>
>
> > > Reminds me of my
> > > mom's friend's mother, who quit vacuuming forever after she mistakenly
> > > vacuumed up a bullet.. scratch one vacuum cleaner!
> >
> >Ow! I'm surprised the round went off, though.
>
> I didn't write this but have had the experience, .22 cal rim fire
> cartridge. Pretty much any good whack to the rim can make it go. However,
> rounds fired outside of a gun shoot the casing off as the mass has much
> more inertia and doesn't go very far. In my case the shop vac sorta
> 'chuffed' and I had to replace the filter which had ballooned to about
> twice its normal size.
>
> --Chuck
>
>
>
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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