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Old 11-15-2010 | 11:16 AM
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pluckit
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Here's a good one for you.Last year I purchased a ground blind,my first.On my first outing with it,it was early morning about an hour before light,and I had the blind all set up and was getting comfortable and setteling in for the hour wait for sunrise.I had my Hawkins with me and pulled the hammer back then pulled the set trigger and started to relax.There was a thread a while back about quirks we have when hunting with muzzleloaders.I never responded to it but my quirk is that after pulling the set trigger I always have to check to see if I've pulled it a short time later.So as I sat in my new blind relaxing I began to wonder if I had pulled the set trigger. So in the darkness of the blind and the rifle resting in my lap I reached down and pulled the set trigger.BOOM!Scared the crap out of me but I wasn't shot and figured no big deal,only a half inch hole in the blind.Untill a second later the blind started leaning to the side.I had hit the 1/4 inch support wire in the corner of the blind and ruined the darn thing.Unreal.Of all the places to shoot it I had to hit a support wire that's only 1/4 of an inch wide.Well,that sucker went in the trash and I finally bought a new one this year.I will certainly be a hell of a lot more careful from now on.And another reason why I have moved to inlines.
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