[Tinker51]

I have never been able to figure out how people manage this feat but they do with regularity. It has always seemed to me a little odd to clean a weapon with the chamber closed. Aside from the safety factor I find it just plain easier to clean a pistol or rifle with the chamber open and revolvers with the cylinder open.

On a different subject. I recently heard the story of what has to be both the stupidest woman in the world and the luckiest woman in the world. She is a trap shooter shooting a autoloader. She loaded a shell and when she pulled the trigger there was only a small pop. The primer fired but the powder charge (if there was one) did not fire. Not knowing that this was a bad thing she put another shell in the gun and fired it again. Same thing. Finally somebody walking by the trap where she was shooting alone noticed that she had a misfire and was about to load another shell. He stopped her and got the dowel to push the wad out of the barrel. It took 20 minutes of work but he eventually got FIVE wads with a shot charge between each pressed from the barrel. I can't imagine how unbelievably lucky and stupid she was that she had five misfires and I shudder to think what would have happened if the sixth shell (which she was loading when she was stopped) had gone off.