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You never really know hoe much you use your thumb until you squash it in the internals of a shotgun and break it! Dang it hurt LOL. It hand to be my right hand thumb too, what a pain in the butt!
Oh well I guess it will heal
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

slipped and fell at night on 'black ice' and slammed it on a piece of thin steel..
Have a good bone bruise and the pain can last for 6 weeks or more!! FUN!! lol

Hey Jim, I tried responding several times to your msg, but my hotmail account is first delaying and then failing to deliver 90% of my emails lately !?!

Just yesterday I sent it via my work email - hope that went through!

Thanks, take care - Joe Rollo - Bci Joe

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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

Thats one heck of a nice bco.
When are you going to start a website to showcase all of your keepers? BTW, I still have that pair of sonorans I bought from you awhile back and they're doing very well and staying relatively small.lol

I haven't had much time to surf kingsnake lately but I'm glad I did for that pic...its nice and so few people ever post pics of t pos args
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Sincerely, Jason
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That made me think of how an auto loader can double as a thumb remover. I guess most coppers carry pump mossys though, right? The closest I've come to removing a digit in a gun was actually with a pellet gun, a fairly powerful break barrel spring rifle. I cocked the barrel down and went to grab a pellet and the defective piston "beartrapped" the gun, slamming the barrel closed and bending it sharply upward. If I had been loading the pellet instead of reaching for it, I'd have probably lost a thumb. Now I only shoot fancy German made airguns, and I always restrain the cocking levers while I have my fingers in harms way. I mostly use my guns for eco friendly varminting of non-native pests and critters that farmers would otherwise poison, it also gets me access to a couple good herping areas on ranches.

Jim,
....I worry that SW Florida will be having a giant crime wave while Deadeye Hoppy Hopkins' shooting hand is out of commission.
Jeff

>>That made me think of how an auto loader can double as a thumb remover. I guess most coppers carry pump mossys though, right? The closest I've come to removing a digit in a gun was actually with a pellet gun, a fairly powerful break barrel spring rifle. I cocked the barrel down and went to grab a pellet and the defective piston "beartrapped" the gun, slamming the barrel closed and bending it sharply upward. If I had been loading the pellet instead of reaching for it, I'd have probably lost a thumb. Now I only shoot fancy German made airguns, and I always restrain the cocking levers while I have my fingers in harms way. I mostly use my guns for eco friendly varminting of non-native pests and critters that farmers would otherwise poison, it also gets me access to a couple good herping areas on ranches.

...until being eaten by a snake. ;^)

I am guessing you were taking it from someone and got your thumb stuck in the ejection port?

LOL ok it was nothing fancy like a shoot out or a fight, just training at the range. I was unloading my shotgun because the range master wanted the guns to be combat loaded and as I was doing so, he came and pulled down the slide, jaming the 4 shells onto my thumb in the loading port and squishing it like a ripe tomato.
Rule number one on the range, never touch another persons gun with out first letting them know! Oh well, It will heal up, the bad guys won't get much of a break, I already qulified with each of my weapons left handed so I can go back to work on monday, that was not an easy thing!
Thanks for the replies
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com