Admitting your screw-ups

[O'Dell]

Thanks O'Dell but if had of been really smart I would have waited until she was in the kitchen to set off that cannon...I'm pretty sure I would be out of prison by now......

Or better yet, you could have invited one of my ex-wives over. I promise, I would have come on visiting day.

[Rainman48314]

someone else's troubles

On a not so related note. I am friends with two psychologists who are married to each other but have seven divorces between them. I have no idea why.

[rwblue01]

I had a mechanical with an older Winchester 94 in 44mag. It appears that if the right parts are broke, when you chamber the round the hammer will come down "some of the time".

I had a slam fire with an experimental round many years ago.

So far I have been lucky. It has cost me a little bit of money but no one was hurt.

[Jeremiah/Az]

I bought my first exwife, yes, there were more to follow, a Browning .25 auto. We were out in the desert & I was teaching her how to shoot it. She pulled the trigger after loading it & it just clicked. I told her to keep it pointed downrange & to lay it flat onto my open hand, which she did. I pressed the mag release with my other hand & it fired! The action operated & I threw the gun about 40 feet in the air! No harm to anyone, but the gun went back to the dealer the next day.

[Barth]

So far the closest I've come is switching to my 1911 45 after shooting the 9mm on a range trip. I was drawing down on the target when the gun fired over the target thanks to the extremely short and light pull. I know you aren't supposed to put your finger on the trigger until the target is in the sights but I hadn't even thought about pulling the trigger. Maybe a breeze came up or something.

When I shot the Glock 36 the other day I was on the target zeroing in when it went off before I was ready. Just one more reason to get a P45 rather than Glock 36, assuming the triggers are the same.

Ditto.
Accidental discharge of 1911 at the range.
I was getting ready to shoot and the gun went off before I was ready.
No harm done. But I'll never forget that.
Keep your finger off the trigger for sure.
But I'm still skittish about "locked and cocked" for self defense.
(My 45 is a P220 DA/SA)

[Diocoles]

I feel left out.

Closest I had was after doing my first trigger job.
Started to bring the weapon down to the target and aerated the ceiling...

Yup, keep my fat finger off trigger before it's on the target.. duh.

I like it though. I actually did a good trigger job.
Down from 7.5 lbs to 5.5 lbs. Now that I'm used to it, I love it.
And no, I'm not going any lighter. It's my carry.

[garyb]

Dumbest thing I did with a gun was when I was 17yrs young and went bunny huntin with a few guys I did not know all that well. To make a long story short, we were all abreast and a bunny was running my way. I saw one of the guys pull up, so I turned my back to him and took a load in the back. It felt like every piece of shot went in my back. Fortunately I was wearing a safety vest and not one single shot went through to the skin. Sure felt like it though. I tore off all my upper clothes only to find my entire back welted up. I walked back to the car and never went hunting with those jack arsed again.

[jlottmc]

I put a hole in the floor of a mobile home that I was renting. Hadn't eaten that day, it was a long and hot one too. I went to clear my 1911, dropped the mag, racked the slide, and still swear that I saw a round come out of the pipe. If it did, it went right back in. I dropped the hammer by pulling the trigger (no need to lower on an empty chamber right?). BOOM a 45 caliber hydra-shok went through the floor. Fast forward a few years, and change the 1911 for a 380, and I put one into a wall (didn't penetrate to the neighbors side of the duplex though). That time I was dry firing, had a mag safety, but had put one back in and went to drop the hammer. Wife was on the phone with the old man at the time. Never again will I rely on a safety device that is not between my ears.

[jocko]

bet that bang expanded the trailor walls for a split second??/

In my business which was a tire store and a gun store, a custmer shot ahole in my mens restroom door while take a dump. He claimed he was just aiming his Smith and Wesson J frame at the door knob and pretending>

[orangeandbrown]

I stocked and checkered a Ruger model 3 .22 hornet in flame maple for my wife when we were first married. Out to the pasture we went in my 1973 F150 [I was quite proud of] and I was going to teach her how to shoot. After I fired a couple of rounds I loaded it and handed it to her and she accidentally touched the trigger and shot one of the front lights out of my beloved pickup. She handed the rifle to me and got in the pickup without saying a word. I must have screamed at her because she will not handle a loaded rifle to this day. She does have a couple of J frame .38's with laser sights though she won't go to the shooting range with me to practice. Yes we are still married [happily] but only because she has alot of patience with a husband who really knows how throw a s*** fit.

[Barth]

I stocked and checkered a Ruger model 3 .22 hornet in flame maple for my wife when we were first married. Out to the pasture we went in my 1973 F150 [I was quite proud of] and I was going to teach her how to shoot. After I fired a couple of rounds I loaded it and handed it to her and she accidentally touched the trigger and shot one of the front lights out of my beloved pickup. She handed the rifle to me and got in the pickup without saying a word. I must have screamed at her because she will not handle a loaded rifle to this day. She does have a couple of J frame .38's with laser sights though she won't go to the shooting range with me to practice. Yes we are still married [happily] but only because she has alot of patience with a husband who really knows how throw a s*** fit.

Unfortunately gun safety isn't a natural thing.
I have a friend whose girlfriend always passes the barrel of a gun across
others in the room without realizing it. We have talked to her about it twice. But she just argues she's not doing it. The gun is unloaded - but still.

We must all do our part to instill gun safety in others.
I'm saying this out loud and to myself as well as everyone else.

Think it's time for a gun safety thread - everyone don't get mad at me please...

[Ubaldo99]

Whoa! All these stories are kinda filling me with a sense of dread and inevitability. If you guys (who are obviously well-experienced gun handlers) have experienced these kinds of mishaps, then its only a matter of time before something similar befalls me. Ugh. Here's hoping that if/when my screwup occurs no one gets hurt.

[orangeandbrown]

Ruger .22 hornet model 3

Want to learn to post pictures, so here is a picture of .22 hornet I stocked for my wife. It has not been shot since she wounded my F150 over 30 years ago. Bawanna, at one time I had good eyes and a steady hand. Thank god my hands shake and my vision is poor now......I would never hit the target otherwise.

[Dietrich]

Whoa! All these stories are kinda filling me with a sense of dread and inevitability. If you guys (who are obviously well-experienced gun handlers) have experienced these kinds of mishaps, then its only a matter of time before something similar befalls me. Ugh. Here's hoping that if/when my screwup occurs no one gets hurt.

Hang on a minute there pal..These stories aren`t being posted to give you a sense of inevitability.They`re here to show you that even people who know better have mental lapses.We`re all here to help each other and if these stories help one or all of us focus better on what we`re doing,that`s a good thing.Just because we made mistakes does not mean you will. My mistake has made me much more aware of my actions and the actions of those around me.I`ve learned the hard way to take nothing for granted and that`s one of the primary rules of gun safety.Stay safe and learn from our idiotic, but thankfully non lethal, screw-ups.

[OldLincoln]

Ubaldo; You hear about auto accidents every day but that doesn't mean you're next. As Diet said learning from others' goofs should make you safer. When I read these I'm thinking how does that apply to me and make a mental note. Other do likewise as they fess up after reading one similar to theirs.

If we regularly get our collective awareness tweaked we'll all be safer with our guns.