Pity the man with two High walls

[Martini2]

I'd like to share a humorous event as it highlights caution too. Recently my shooting buddy and I finished some range maintenance on our 500 yd. Silhouette range here in Ohio. To fill some time we of course limbered one of his C Sharps High Walls. Names are omitted here to protect the innocent (old geezer) :-) Our mission at that moment was to empty odd lots of cartridges left over from summer's campaigns. We have shared shooter/spotter combo countless times. It was his rifle so obviously he got first shot. I dutifully lined up as spotter at 500yd. steel ringer target. He let loose and after the boom I had to confess there was no impact as normally would appear with this crack shooter. Hmmmm , At this he confirmed sights etc. and slipped another round in. This time I sat with both eyes open one on scope and at rifle report observed an impact on shorter 100 yd. berm. Also noting with my buddy there was no hit on target. Well there was some more sight adjusting and incantations while the third round was chambered. I examined one of the spent 45-70 cases an all looked OK as was observed many time before. The third round out of this very accurate shooter /rifle combo was observed to bounce some where's between the muzzle and home plate. At this there was a full investigation committee meeting We concluded and readily confirmed (you may have guessed:-) the culprit was some unnamed source had packed this 45-70 High Wall and 40-65 Ammo (Brass reformed from 45-70s)[/size][/font] for the near identical HW home in the safe Keep yer eyes open and mind on the loading bench in the new year. Happy Holidays to all. RobertB