It can happen anywhere,
OK, at my favorite gunshop where I work, play, a little once in a while - They got a Remington shotgun in last week and said "Walt take a look at that beauty in the rack." They know I like 1100's. WELL, it had been there a week BUT I did my diligence and checked the chamber. WAAAAAAA LAAAAAAAAAAAAA a round IN the chamber. 🤐 I got there attention and said WATCH THIS. I pulled it back and the shell, live round came flying out! They had a dull silence. I thought you checked it, other guy said I thought you checked it.? It had been handled by at least seven people. ...You never know.
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And this is how really bad days born.
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Damm!!! Glad you caught for them, before things turn bad
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Every gun is loaded.
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Your a good man, you probably stopped and accident from happening.
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the saying is when you handle a firearm. treat it like its loaded. thankfully you found it
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Agree w/@Mr. Perfect, EVERY firearm is loaded. I don't care if the owner (a friend) hands it to me stating, "It's unloaded." I double check it EVERY SINGLE time.
Good on you, @Grasshopper. Nice catch. You just never know.
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Somebody owes you lunch. ................................
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bullshot: 30057765149723/comments/30057783164571
Somebody owes you lunch. ................................
Fact of the matter is--- they did!! 😅
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Some you cant even unload!
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And this is why I taught my kids to always chamber check ANY firearm handed to them.
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Always check and whenever possible show someone else that the gun is empty.
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I sometimes help a friend at this pawn and gun shop. ANY time I handle ANY gun, I check the chamber. A little old lady came in with her deceased husband's Marlin Model 60 loaded to the max with green cased ammo. (corroded all to heck!) It took me a half hour to get all of the shells out of it. We gave her $90 and I took it home to scrub it down. It came out pretty clean.
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I'm gonna be honest and say, I have done this once. I left my 30-30 with a round in the chamber. I was so excited after killing a deer, I forgot all about unloading the gun. I drove 200 miles with a loaded rifle and put it away like that. The next year when I went back to the cabin hunting, I levered the rifle , and a live round popped out😟. Never did that again.
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A friend dropped off a Rem 700 ML saying it wouldn't set off the 209 primer. Good thing I checked first as the ramrod wouldn't go to the bottom. And yes, the inside of the bolt was full of crud.
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I have found more loaded muzzle loading guns than I can put a number on over the years. Some of these were antiques and held the load for a very long time!
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After sixteen years of dry chamber-checking , I had two 1911s come in in one week that were empty, See?
Each of them had the mags pulled as "proof" and rounds in the chambers.
No muzzling and always check.
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I'm gonna be honest and say, I have done this once. I left my 30-30 with a round in the chamber. I was so excited after killing a deer, I forgot all about unloading the gun. I drove 200 miles with a loaded rifle and put it away like that. The next year when I went back to the cabin hunting, I levered the rifle , and a live round popped out😟. Never did that again.
I love cheap lessons.😉
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I stopped at a gun shop once when on vacation. I asked if I could look at a Winchester1906 pump. I got permission and checked it. It had a full tube magazine full in it. I asked if they knew this rifle was loaded and showed them. The owner was very upset and said that two of his employees had had it the basement the night before shooting it and they were in deep stuff.
I get down right surly at gun shows when some goober muzzle sweeps me. I have seen to many unloaded guns go off.
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