Luger Shooting Failures

[azlaw]

I have an interest in firearms accidents and their causes. I recall reading an article in a gun magazine years ago entitled "Gun Blew Up? - It's probably your fault!" and the point of the article was that shooters with blown up guns usually tried to blame the gun, or someone else, but when the facts came out it almost always was their fault.

So this is the answer I expected. I have been shooting "old" American firearms of many years, and I have never experienced or witnessed any failure that was attributable to the age of the gun. Other mistakes for sure, but not the age of the gun. We have had a samll number of accidents in Cowboy Action Shooting due to errors in reloading - either overloads with "hot" powders, or "squibs" followed by full power rounds where the shooter didn't stop to check his bore.

I ask the question as to what you have personally witnessed because so much "second hand" information ends up being inaccurate.

H