David LaPell
Blackhawk
My nephew told me today he was shooting his New Model Blackhawk yesterday (I think a 1983 vintage) and he let his girlfriend shoot it. While I had taught him safety when he first learned he didn't pass on everything to her I guess. They were using Blazer .357 ammo and apparently she got a squib, something I would think in a .357 you would notice. Well, the squib lodged a bullet in the end of the barrel by the front sight, and you guess it since she was a new shooter and didn't know what to do, she fired another round. Apparently there is now quite a noticeable bulge in the barrel. She stopped shooting then luckily and she is even more lucky that the gun didn't come apart or that the squib was at the other end of the gun. My nephew is upset and he has called Blazer to see if they are going to do something about the barrel, I told him not to hold his breath since every shooter should know what to do with a squib, especially when I found out that his girlfriend said it was like going from the .357 to a .22. Basic gun safety as I was always taught, and so was he because I taught him. I told him the important part is that both were ok and that to chalk it up to a learning experience for everyone involved. Now he is on the hunt for a new barrel for the gun.
