Admitting your screw-ups

[jocko]

no doubt we won't live long enough to make all the mistakes, so we should learn from those who do fokk up.

[tdperry23]

sony is not bullet proof

mine happened three weeks ago,i was getting ready for work and when i went and got my pm9 i tripped as i got to the door to the living room. as many times as i have tripped at the range i have never had a n.d. or been dqed from a match,but on this particular morning when i hit the door frame,floor at the same time my finger was on the bang switch. ran outside to make sure i had not shot my neighbor then went back inside to assess the damage unfortunately a 50"sony tv is not bullet proof but at least nothing but my pride and the tv were hurt.

[wyntrout]

I'm glad no one was injured! It's upgrade time! You have to look at the bright side of things.

Wynn

[wyntrout]

I've been pretty lucky with the few misadventures I had, but I keep thinking about Getsome and that danged 12-gauge with 00 buck. That's quite a cannon to be firing off in the house... on purpose... on the second floor!!

My .22LR through the thigh with the quick drawing is more understandable... to me! OOPS! At least it wasn't my High power! I never tried fast draw with that.

Wynn

[rwblue01]

My .22LR through the thigh with the quick drawing is more understandable... to me! OOPS! At least it wasn't my High power! I never tried fast draw with that.

Wynn

LOL
I probably should not laugh, but I am glad I was not written up in the news paper.

This reminds me I need to buy a bb version of my Glocks to practice with.

[jlottmc]

When I was an armorer, we used to get weapons pointed at us all the time, rounds in chambers, fingers on bang switches and safeties off. We got real grouchy. Worst case of stupidity that should have been terminal was in Bosnia. We had just come ashore, and our barracks were in an area that was littered with mines. There was a kid (I think from West By God) that found a sheet of plywood, and thought he could throw his bayonet and stick it. We protested, loudly, but stupid won out and did it. Problem was, he bounced off of that and tripped a mine, which set off about four more. No real injuries more than a couple of pieces of fragmentation is some legs and butts, but a bunch of brown huggies. We had a conversation with with him, and didn't see him again after that. Funny that part, I think the ossifers got wind of that and dealt with him.

[OldLincoln]

Yep, it's those greenhorns that act before they think that put everybody at risk. I was sitting in the jump seat on a flight and noticed the Lieutenant co-pilot was kinda spaced out looking at switches and figured he was playing out scenarios in his head. Suddenly like a karate move he reached up and flicked off the autopilot. The aircraft was a little out of trim and lurched making the aircraft commander spill his coffee as he grabbed controls and retrimmed. He may have been an officer but he swore like a Master Sargent. Never saw the Lieutenant again. Heard he "put in" a transfer for Newfoundland.

[tdperry23]

old lincoln to answer your question no i normally do not have my finger on the bang switch but one stupid moment when i hit the door frame,personally i dont think my record is too bad i made it 47 yrs 11 months to do something that stupid. by the way thanks for helping the bruised ego this is the reason people dont admit mistakes sorry i did not know anyone here was perfect,next time i will just keep my mouth shut.

[OldLincoln]

Dang, TD, I wasn't lecturing you and meant no harm. I did the same thing in an earlier post putting my finger where it didn't belong putting a round somewhere over the target area. My words were meant as a tease for all of us including me as the AD theme is pretty strong. Like everybody says, if everybody survived it was a learning experience and not a major felony.

Sometimes my tease doesn't land right so please forgive my error.

[jlottmc]

The majority of the folks who pointed loaded stuff at us was not the kids. It was the ossifers and not the boots either. Usually once they made field grade though a couple of captains did it too. I had a LTC that was not happy that I had trapped his weapon and was trying to calmly have him do it right. He fixed his attitude when I undid my pistol in my shoulder holster with my left hand and started to point it at him.