Oldbloke wrote: I got lucky at the weekend. Fired off a shot and just a mild pop. When I checked I'd loaded a 30-06 with NO powder. Tapped out the bullet and all good. But what if???
I did the same thing myself once... Once! 30 plus years ago when i was a teenager I fired a shortloaded .38 Special and the the primer was enough to push it half way down the barrel of the Smith & Wesson K frame .38 revolver, Being young and dumb, I went "that was weird" and promptly fired another. Thankfully for me, I had shortloaded that one too, and so the end result was 2 wadcutters stuck in the barrel [but no barrel bulge or frame damage] and an earnest talking to from my father about how I had just narrowly avoided a lifelong nickname of 'Stumpy'.