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.50 Cal primer grown up in a friend's cheek and gum

An older friend of mine, who was in WWII had an unusual happening. They were sweeping an island getting all of the remaining Japanese soldiers out. The Japanese were hidden in what was called spider holes by the US troops. Spider holes were little holes dug in the ground with camo tops over them and un-expectedly the Japanese soldiers would raise up and open fire. During this operation my friend was stabbed completely through his face, in one cheek and out the other, by a Japanese bayonet. He had the 7,7 Japanese rifle and bayonet that stabbed him mounted over the mantle of his fireplace. He continued through the sweeping operation before receiving medical attention.

In the early nineties he was having some dental problems. The dentist was removing a stubborn molar, having to do a little cutting, when he discovered something grown up in his cheek and gum. He removed it and guess what it was, a 50 cal primer. Evidently a 50 cal had blown a primer and it just happened to go in the open stab wound in his face. He made a little walnut plaque and mounted the primer on it and placed that on his mantle to go along with his trophy rifle. If anyone who thinks these people weren't a different breed of cat, they have another think coming. Danny Daniels died in the early 2012. I lost a good friend and the world lost a great man.I may be goofed up on this being a primer from a 50 cal, i would think on this type of operation you would be more likely to be in the vicinity of a BAR than a 50.I can't remember exactly what he said,SORRY.

My brother-in-law and I ordered 2,000 precleaned and de-primed .223 cases from Midway years ago While loading mine I had a case separation when witthdrawing the case from a sizing die. We loaded a bunch of these and took them on a prairie dog shoot. We were firing these through two different rifles and the cases were sized to fit each individual rifle. 99% of these had a case separation when fired. good thing we had plenty of good ammunition and lots of rifles in different calibers. The only thing that I could figure out was that they had all been fired though a fully auto rifle and the case wasn't getting fully seated before ignition.

Mashburn