Live and Learn

[Cy]

I have a new Omega. It has that lever on the trigger guard that you drop to expose the breech and load the 209 primer. First time in the woods this past week.

The primers are hard to load and I can't get one in there without using the little primer tool. After my brother left the cabin last Tuesday, I left the thing loaded and primed. Nobody there but me, so what the hey, be a little lazy.

Friday I got ready to come home. Took the rifle outside, aimed at the backstop, hammer back and pulled the trigger. Click. Hammer back and pulled the trigger again. Click. Hit the lever and opened the breech. No primer.

So then I remembered, I was climbing up the ladder into a big buddy stand on Tuesday morning and I opened the lever so I wouldn't be climbing with a rifle that was locked and loaded. When I slung the rifle over my neck to climb, the primer must have fallen out.

That Tuesday morning I had a buck grunting his fool head off, off and on for an hour from the thicket 50 yards from the stand. I spent an hour with the rifle up, looking over the top of the scope waiting for him to step out. He never did. I didn't hunt Weds. because it rained, but I hunted all day Thursday and Friday morning without a primer in the rifle.

I never thought I'd be happy that the big one didn't come along, but I that's exactly how I felt when I figured what had happened.

Broke all my own rules because the primer is a little bit of a pain to load. Lesson learned.

 

[ratsnakeboogy]

I took my wife out Sunday morning with her knight Disc Elite that I just shortened the barrel on. We got a late start so I primed the rifle with the red plastic jacket about 100 yards from our blind and made sure both safeties were engaged. There were deer running around everywhere, but out of range. We got back to the truck and i went to remove the primer disc and it wasn't there. I asked if she took it out and she said no. Evidently while walking in, a limb opened the bolt and the primer fell out. She closed the bolt when she sat down, but didn't notice the missing primer. We hunted with no fire all morning.

 

[981kirk]

My buddy hunts on a family farm in Waverly, TN.
Awesome deer on his farm. I seen 3 bucks the first morning I went up there, the largest one was about 140". He went in the other morning and along the way to the stand he decided to stop and take a leak... He was wearing coveralls. When he got to his climbing stand about 1/4 mile down the ridge he climbed up about 20' and settled in waiting on daylight. When it got light enough to see he reached into his pocket to get a primer he put in his pocket before he left the house.... No primers.

He sat there and watched the deer walk around all morning.

On the way back to the truck he walked by where he stopped to take a leak and there were all the primers... LOL

They all fell out on the ground we he pulled his coveralls down to pee. HaHa!