Quote Originally Posted by wbm View Post
Oh yeah! Forgot that lesson last week. Picked up some 223 reloads that I thought were for my AR. Got about two miles from the house out in the middle of everywhere and cycled a round....you know just push the button and let the bolt fly... in the chamber....NOT...had a dandy time getting it out. Some lessons are best learned only once and not forgotten.
this describes about a dozen different trips out to the desert for me. Driving 8 hours back home with nary a shot fired because I was a dolt and didn't test locally made the lessons very hard to forget.