really off topic

Rod WMG · 02-18-2008, 12:14 PM

My wife likes to subscribe to Alfred Hitchcock/Ellery Queen magazines. I've read some funky stuff about guns in them, but this latest is something I've never before seen.

In one of the stories I read recently a couple of detectives were putting on a public program for writers and they pooh-poohed the idea of using a pencil down the barrel to pick up a pistol, preserving the fingerprints. Seems they thought it would mar the barrel and make testing bullets for matches impossible.

Guess all the muzzleloader shooters better discard their wooden ramrods before they damage the bores.

02-18-2008, 12:14 PM	#1
Rod WMG User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Edge of Texas Posts: 514 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	really off topic My wife likes to subscribe to Alfred Hitchcock/Ellery Queen magazines. I've read some funky stuff about guns in them, but this latest is something I've never before seen. In one of the stories I read recently a couple of detectives were putting on a public program for writers and they pooh-poohed the idea of using a pencil down the barrel to pick up a pistol, preserving the fingerprints. Seems they thought it would mar the barrel and make testing bullets for matches impossible. Guess all the muzzleloader shooters better discard their wooden ramrods before they damage the bores.