have you ever done this?
The other day I was out shooting my ruger 10/22. I came in afterwards and was going to clean it up a little. What I didn't realize was that there was still a round in teh chamber. I called myself going through the steps and checking that everything was in the clear. Well, it wasn't. I shot a hole through the closet and through some of the wife's clothes.[:0] No one hurt, (except my pride).[V]
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Having had my own and seeing others, it gives me the creeps to see
Trap shooters park shotgun muzzles on their right foot.0 -
quote:But....back to guns, I have no intention in ever becoming a member of the, "it'll happen sooner or later" club. That's pure bull.
What that means is that you haven't had one yet. I used to be in the "holier-than-thou" crowd too, until I had one. I handle guns a lot, and am very safety conscious, but I made a mistake.
I know a gang of police who have suffered self-inflicted accidental gunshot wounds. #1 point of injury is the left hand. #2 is the right foot.0 -
Always second nature to check the chamber with the muzzle up. On my semi auto i like to leave the bolt back as much as possible. 0 -
I once shot a hole through my parents garage, from the inside. I am not at liberty to release anymore details on that subject. 0 -
Rule Number 1 when picking up any firearm. Always open the action and visually check the chamber to ensure it's unloaded with the muzzle pointed in a safe direction. 0 -
Never have and never will. I always check the chamber multiple times before I leave the range and before I attempt to clean or do anything with the rifle. The first thing I do when I pick up a firearm or have one handed to me is check the chamber. Glad to hear that nobody was hurt.
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I had one with my first gun.
Winchester 121Y
I had removed the bolt to clean it from the breech and when I reassembled it the extractor clips got reversed.
The next time I went to shoot, the gun fired upon closing the bolt.
Dad took it back to the shop. The shop sent it back to Winchester.
When the shop got it back with an explanation of what happened the shop owner chewed me out - he told me I had NO BUSISNESS removing the bolt FROM MY GUN! (ok I was only 14, but it was my gun.)
I wrote an application form for the gun club I used to belong to.
One of the questions was, "Please explain any accidental discharges you have had (if any)."
Nobody wanted to ask that question because "that happens to everybody!" - - I said, "That's exactly my point - if a guy's never had one he doesn't have much experience and if he has had one we want to know that he learned from the experience."
The question got changed to "Do you reload? If not would you like to?"0 -
The funniest one I ever saw was when I lived in North Carolina and was a member of the Rich-Mont Hunt Club. We had one member everybody called "Poncho Villa" because of all the bandoleers, Bowie Knives, swords, pistols and revolvers he had hanging off of him all the time. As soon he hit the woods the shooting started. I usually left when he showed up. The president of the club was a pretty good old boy and Poncho Villa was his son-in-law. Nobody wanted to hurt the president's feelings, so nobody tried to get him uninvited.
One day I got there late and another old boy got there about the same time I did. I decided to walk down the fire break and see if I could find an unoccupied tree stand. We came up on Poncho Villa standing beside the fire brake with the muzzle of a Winchester twelve semi-automatic on the toe of his boot and he was leaning on the stock eating peanuts. I asked him if he thought it was a good idea to have the muzzle on his toe like that. He said it was OK because the safety was on. The other old boy said he still didn't think it was a very good idea. Poncho Villa got a little testy and said "I said the safety is on, see, watch this." as he reached down and pulled the trigger to show us there was nothing to worry about. The next thing he said was "Oh my God, I've shot my toe off!" Then the screaming started.
To make a really long story just long, it turned out he didn't actually shoot his toe off, but he lost it anyway. He had on steel toe boots, and the load make a perfectly round twelve gauge tunnel all the way through his boot and squished his toe.0 -
I've had two. Each time, the gun was giving me a hard time, and I knew it was a possibility, and had them pointed where I wanted them to fire, "just in case".
One of the times I was messing with a jammed winchester '98. I had the muzzle pointed in a safe direction, but the butt put a dent in my buddies car door.
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Thank you, nunn. Supercilious, pompous and self righteous comments notwithstanding, I stand by what I said: "Firearm people either have had an accidental discharge, or will have one.".
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quote:Originally posted by fishermanben
I've had two. Each time, the gun was giving me a hard time, and I knew it was a possibility, and had them pointed where I wanted them to fire, "just in case".
One of the times I was messing with a jammed winchester '98. I had the muzzle pointed in a safe direction, but the butt put a dent in my buddies car door.
Ben
Ok, what's a Winchester 98? The only one I could find was a signal cannon.0 -
It can happen to the most safety minded of people.After all,we are human and humans make mistakes. It has never happened to me,knock on wood but it has happened to my dad when he was cleaning his 06 at the kitchen table.Nobody got hurt but the TV,thank God.Had a friend in highschool that lost half his face and has a permanent traecheotomy from a 12 guage he borrowed a friend for hunting and the friend returned it to him loaded.He was cleaning it and didnt bother to check it.Luckily,it was more muzzle blast than pellets that got him.None the less he is badly disfigured for life.
Rule#1 Always be sure of where that muzzle is pointing,loaded or not!0 -
I accidentally put a hole in my overhang during the summer, that was interesting, testing some new ammo I had in a mag I kept loaded, in my rifle. fired it, and had the gun on my shoulder..... fiddled with the trigger and Whoops, ya, remember i said I kept it loaded (THE Detachable Mag)... Good thing it was pointed in a safe direction when it happened. I'm a lot more careful just over that little event. 0 -
Her new wardrobe is going to cost you your next gun purchase. Bummer. 0 -
Glad no one was hurt. Hope the wife doesn't empty your wallet after that..[}:)] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Spider7115
quote:Originally posted by fishermanben
I've had two. Each time, the gun was giving me a hard time, and I knew it was a possibility, and had them pointed where I wanted them to fire, "just in case".
One of the times I was messing with a jammed winchester '98. I had the muzzle pointed in a safe direction, but the butt put a dent in my buddies car door.
Ben
Ok, what's a Winchester 98? The only one I could find was a signal cannon.
typo: model '97
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RULE #1....ALL GUNS ARE LOADED UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE.
Praise be that the round did not strike someone or a loved pet, clear it once, clear it twice.
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Had a .25 auto hang up with a live round in the chamber. Kept pointed in a save direction and hit the firing pin release, somehow the gun fired with the safety on. I was the only one home at the time, and the round hit the floor and bounced into a blanket (all this unknown to me at the time) so I got up and couldn't find the bullet, so naturally I got concerned it might be in me. Luckily I found the bullet in the blanket and fell to my knees thanking the Lord. Haven't shot the gun since. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo
That is why muzzle safety is so critical.
Never point a gun at something you can't shoot. That empty gun might turn up loaded...
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Stupid me. Finger on the trigger; loaded and cocked S&W 686 pointing one way, my eyes pointing another way and I was just...BANG!
I didn't realize how much recoil that revolver had until I limp-wristed it like that. Fortunately the muzzle was pointed downrange...nobody else on the firing line even noticed.0 -
I was lucky enough to see a fellow blow of his pinky toe when I was four. I laughed my butt off, Got whipped hard as I recall .... when I was five and my dad took me out back for the first time... the first thing that came to mind was that idiot blowing his toe off.... I don't say idiot lightly either. Twenty yrs later the same guy accidently discharged a 12 ga. in my aunt and uncle's living room blowing a hole in a bed upstairs that my youngest cousin had just left five minutes earlier. To date I have been handed no less than ten loaded "unloaded" firearms, two of which had the wrong (live) ammo lodged inside the barrel. I've been checking since I was five (little rem. 6 boys rifle which is still in the family) and may God grant me the presence of mind to never forget... 0 -
a friend and my self were groundhog hunting one day when his hand loaded 223 did not fire. he tried again ,click nothing, he removed the shell looked at it and the firing pin hit the primer but didn't go off.he removed the shell and dropped it in an old hollow fence post . well a couple years later he no longer needed the old fence , and we took it out and cut the locust post for firewood. needless to say you can guess what happened next. a person can NEVER be to careful with firearms and ammo 0 -
And while I'm at it I personally wittnessed a Rem 222 mag. (not sure of the model) discharge while hanging in the rack and safety on. Again at an uncles house. I don't trust safeties to do my job for me. My only loaded gun in the house is always pointing in the well thought out safest direction possible... 0 -
Thankfully I can say this has never happened to me. I alway's treat every gun as if it is loaded. But I do know of 3 occasions where others we not so lucky. Luckily no one was hurt in any of these "accidents".
1st one was my Uncle, it was New Years EVE (you probally already guessed where this one is going). He was going to "ring" in the New Year with touching off a few rounds at the stroke of midnight. He grabbed his 870, started loading her up and KABOOM! Shot a hole in the kitchen floor and killed his hot water heater in the basement. And Yes, alcohol was involved! Good example: gun's and alcohol don't mix.[V][V][V]
2nd one was my cousin, he came home from a trip to the shooting range, was carrying his S&W 629 and for some reason was pulling the trigger as he was waliking to the house. Well after 2 or 3 dry fires KABOOM! She went off, put a round in the concrete sidewalk.[V][V][V]
3rd one was on a bear hunting trip up in Maine. The guide was picking people up to take them back to camp. First guy he pick's up, climb's in the back of the guides (or I should say, the guides WIFE's) 3 month old GMC 1500 extended cab. They are heading down the trail to pick up the next guy and KABOOM! The gun goes off putting a nice .300 Win mag hole in the roof of the truck. Luckily neither one was seriously hurt other than they both had their ears rung pretty good. This was on the second day of a 5 day hunt. He (the hunter) stayed in camp the rest of the week.[V][V][V]0
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