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**ripley16** · 02-04-2010, 08:43 AM

You're kidding.... right?

**wyntrout** · 02-04-2010, 08:53 AM

Originally posted by ripley16 View Post

You're kidding.... right?

#1

Nope! It's safe and doesn't bother the chambered round. I do this when starting to use snap caps to make sure there's a red round in there.
I know! A dozen people are wanting to squawk about this, but the gun won't fire unless I put my finger in there and pull the trigger... and we spend a lot of time here talking about failures to feed, etc.
Wynn

I haven't had any problems, so far!

**500KV** · 02-04-2010, 09:18 AM

Originally posted by wyntrout View Post

#1

I haven't had any problems, so far!

Seems like a great idea........If you've got a death-wish.

**wyntrout** · 02-04-2010, 09:26 AM

Originally posted by 500KV View Post

Seems like a great idea........If you've got a death-wish.

#2

Hmmm... is this like the "Guns kill people...."? It's only dangerous if your finger pulls the trigger. It's not a snake, and we talk about how safe the Kahrs are.... Now, I wouldn't advise everyone to do that... and not in moving vehicles... or with someone else holding the gun. I'm very mindful of the gun's potential... and my part in making it do what it's designed to do.
I've really got to find an emoticon of the bowling-ball-looking bomb with the lit fuse... as in tossing out one for comment.

Wynn

**500KV** · 02-04-2010, 09:36 AM

Coroner: Officer, how did this happen?

Officer: Well sir; he was looking down the barrel to see if it was loaded...And it was.

**jeep45238** · 02-04-2010, 10:09 AM

It won't hurt a dang thing to pull back the slide 1/2 an inch or so and visually verify that there's a cartridge in there.

If you're so paranoid that you refuse to rack the slide slightly to perform a press check, may I suggest utilizing a mirror instead of your eyeball?

**mr surveyor** · 02-04-2010, 10:10 AM

personally, I kinda like to observe the loaded chamber indicator

**wyntrout** · 02-04-2010, 10:36 AM

Wow! Success! Hijacked thread!

And I'm hardly paranoid... and it's personal preference. There's no danger and like I said... it's not for everyone.

Kaboom... the bomb of controversy....

Some of you probably run a finger or thumb along a sharp blade to see if it's sharp. Now that's dangerous!

Another controversy ~ TP behind or over to front

Seat up or down (I personally like the LID down)

Wynn

**johnh** · 02-04-2010, 01:11 PM

Hey my electrician grandfather used to test to see if wires were hot by grabbing them.

Apparently he got used to it after a while. Much tougher fellow than me!

John

**getsome** · 02-04-2010, 02:39 PM

Reminds me of Mr Bill, Ooooooooooooh Noooooooooooo!!!!!

**Bawanna** · 02-04-2010, 05:43 PM

Excellent. Mr Bill was my hero. Wonder what ever happened to him? Or perhaps what ever didn't happen to him would be a better question.
My weak suggestion Mr. Wyntrout would be to look really really quick. Maybe bob and weave. I've done it myself just gotta know you know and I bet if we applied the lie detector machine I think most would admit they have. I avoid it mostly these days. Bad things happen to bad people or good people or something happens to somebody, aw heck just don't do it much no more.

**wyntrout** · 02-04-2010, 06:16 PM

I just got back from grocery shopping and I didn't see a long line of people with torches and pitchforks... or tar and feathers ready!
Man, it isn't like I sit down and study it like it's a microscope... or use it for a bong without unloading it. Yeah, just a quick glance -- that's all it takes. You never know when the first Kahr might decide to spontaneously discharge.... <a little X-Files music> I did say it's not for everybody and we talk all of the time about how Kahrs will only fire if you pull the trigger. I trust that as the gospel.
Oh, I like the toilet paper to come out over the top and hang in front. I also like to use the LID and close that on the toilet... it's there for a reason. I believe in the look before you leap concept... especially to see if there are sufficient supplies available... within reach.

Wynn

Bawanna', the last I saw of Mr. Bill, was in a commercial where he was blown out of a window on a high-rise and fell onto the windshield of a car. There he was stuck looking through the window as the driver engaged the windshield wiper... "Oh no!...."

**jwr** · 02-04-2010, 07:10 PM

Sorry Wynn, I lump myself into the "don't point your gun at anything you don't want to shoot" group.

And although from time to time I may end up on someone else's list of things they'd like to shoot, I have managed to keep myself off my own personal list of things I'd like to shoot

**wyntrout** · 02-04-2010, 07:19 PM

Originally posted by jwr View Post

Sorry Wynn, I lump myself into the "don't point your gun at anything you don't want to shoot" group.

And although from time to time I may end up on someone else's list of things they'd like to shoot, I have managed to keep myself off my own personal list of things I'd like to shoot

I firmly believe in that as well, and I didn't point a gun at anyone or anything. I've done some wild and crazy things in my 63 1/2 years or so, but this isn't one of those things. I guess it's like the "Don't ask, Don't tell policy", though. What you do in the privacy of your own home... or in Las Vegas... stays there, or should.
Dang, I nearly knocked over my wine glass as I was trying to pour some more to take my medications with. Sometimes I just can't help using a dangling participle. It become too stilted to try to avoid that quite often.
Wynn

**ltxi** · 02-04-2010, 07:40 PM

Originally posted by wyntrout View Post

Once a round is in battery position or chambered, when I want to make sure that the gun is loaded, I point the muzzle toward the best light source and look down the barrel -- finger off the trigger, of course. I don't want to pull the slide back and possibly leave it a bit out of position. Besides, it's a comforting sight -- that nice little hollow point waiting to perform its duty.
I can see a lot of surprised faces.

And ripley16 said "This method also serves as a sort of press check too. If the round is gone, the mag empty, then your pistol is loaded... no doubt about it." Unless... CRS has kicked in and you think "Dang, did I just put an empty magazine in?"
Wynn

I have a story that, given this post, I can't help but share.

As far as I can remember, I have voluntarily looked down the barrel of a loaded handgun I was holding just once!!

It was 1977 and the gun was a favored and much used/carried/fired original Charter Arms Undercover with a maybe 2.5# trigger in sa mode. At the time, I was mostly into revolvers, firing single action, and would often ride the hammer with my left thumb to automatically recock the gun as it recovered from recoil. For whatever reason, something hadn't felt right, mechanically, in the follow-up after firing the second or third round in the cylinder so, in the most incredibly stupid act I have ever, ever committed in my entire life, I turned the gun around with my finger on the trigger and looked down the barrel as I wondered what might be wrong.

Found myself staring directly into the mouth of a Speer JSP handload that was maybe 2 oz of unregulated finger pressure away from exploding into my brain. I have forgotten this never, ever! To this day I have occasional sweat nightmares about it that even exceed those of the 'Nam and still have no idea at all why I'm not dead by my own stupid hand.

Whole point here...to wyntrout and anyone else I can maybe reach out and touch....don't ever, ever do something anything this utterly stupid.

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