Derrick W. Edwards" muzzleloader after it exploded. Pieces of the firearm were found 7 inches deep in the ground. Edwards" arm was injured, but he was treated and released.
"DELANEY CREEK BOTTOMS " Derrick W. Edwards of Indianapolis was injured when his muzzleloader exploded after he finished deer hunting Sunday in Washington County.
Edwards, 46, suffered a laceration to his left forearm, and was treated and released at Schneck Medical Center in Seymour.
He was injured while attempting to unload his .54-caliber muzzleloader at the end of his hunt.
" Edwardstold investigators that he had loaded the muzzleloader with modern smokeless gunpowder instead of the required black powder," according to an Indiana Conservation Officers news release. "Conservation officers recovered the firearm from Mr. Edwards and located pieces of the gun driven as deep as 7 inches into the ground at the accident scene."
Muzzleloaders should always be loaded with black powder or the appropriate substitute. They are not manufactured to withstand the extreme pressures generated from modern smokeless gun powder.
"Mr. Edwards was extremely lucky he didn"t see a deer while hunting this morning," stated Indiana Conservation Officer Phil Nale in the release. "Had he fired the firearms while shouldered near his head, his injuries could have been much worse." Poor idiot!!
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He is one very lucky guy. It would seem that a 46 year oldman would be a littlesmarter than that. Saw another report where a guy used smokeless in a conventional M/L. It blew a hole in the barrel in the tenon dove-tail area and injured the shooter.
DON'T USE SMOKELESS POWDER!!
