Ever drop a mag on your gun?

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Icopy

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Last night, I was wiping down the magazine for my Hi-Power with some oil. Well, the mag slipped out of my hands and dropped right on my gun! Of course, the mag had to hit the gun with the sharp edge of the base plate and of course it had to hit the gun on angled edge. Now I have a tiny nick in my frame. ARRRGH! Good thing I'm having the gun refinished next year, but it still hurts. Has something like this happened to any of you?

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I had a Kahr K9 and did something very stupid .To take the gun apart you have to fire it to seperate the slide from the frame.When I did that I had the gun pointed toward the ground and the slide flew off and hit the concrete.I was sick.It took a chunk out of the slide.So dont feel bad,it happens to the best of us.
 
i witnessed my brother drop his brand new sig (right out of the box) on a ceramic tile floor. it landed right on its nose.believe it or not the barrel was dented leaving a flat spot in the barrel itself. the floor was not injured.


Tim :)

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Washington DC does not allow citizens to own guns, Yet it's the murder capital of the U.S.
 
I've dropped a Sig onto carpet (never sleep with a drawer partially open. You may put your hand in, roll over, and fling the contents everywhere.) No damage. I also dropped a Glock onto concrete. Ouch! I left a crevice in the floor but no damage to the Glock. Thank the Lord I wasn't carrying the Sig that day.
 
I hit a bed post with the edge of a G17 slide...the slide is undamaged except for brass that rubbed off the bed post :)
 
goat - Is that for real? I don't have a Kahr so I plead ignorance. But it sounds very strange (and dangerous) that you have to fire the gun to separate the slide from the frame.
 
Mal, it is the same procdure with the Glock. The trigger must be pulled to allow the slide to be withdrawn from the frame. On the Glock, the mechanism is not really under any tension. On the Kahr, the recoil spring motivates it a little bit.

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Ah ha! [SNL] I knew that! How odd that you would think I didn't know that! [/SNL] :)

I was picturing the slide coming off the frame real fast! (I don't own a Glock either and never saw one taken down.)
 
I haven't done it on a handgun, but I scratched the stock on my Mini-30 the second time out. It rolled over in my bag when I let go of it and hit the edge of the table (concrete). It was unloaded so no danger, but DAMN! A scratch on my gun. I still haven't recovered!

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Hi, Goat,

What happened to the old business about "make sure the gun is unloaded" that is included in disassembly instructions? Or do the kids who treat guns like toys not care about that silly old advice?

Jim
 
No, But I had one fall out of its box pulling it out of the gun safe hitting the edge of the safe and leaving a little nick in the heel of the butt :( Not to happy about that,my kid didn't close the box right the last time he had it opened :mad: Lucky me the mark is hardly noticible :)

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Waaal...I did drop my AR off a bench onto hard concrete. Ouch!! Luckily it landed stock flush. No damage except for a little nick taken out of the buttplate, but it was a real Maalox moment! Duh......
 
I take care of my stuff but if it gets nicks or scratches so what? I see my defense tools as just that, tools. Beware that being anal about firearms can lead to disadvantages in the field. You're in a self defense situation and you've got to dump empty mags. Do you spend a split second thinking about the damage or do you just do it? You need to fire from a brick wall barricade that will certainly scratch your pistol. Do you just do it or do you think about it?

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So many pistols, so little money.

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Acquired a brandnew Sig 220 yesterday. Wanted to show it to my brother in law. Father in law wanted to see it so I let him. His ring scratched the top of the slide. Damn that didn't take long.
 
Hi Guys:
I once tripped while carrying the slide portion of the P7M8 I was cleaning (Damn bifocals). It slid across twelve feet of a concrete aggregate deck. There was no sign of damage, not one single scratch. The Metaloy hard chrome finish paid for itself that afternoon.

Jeff
 
jrtrecbn1 --

Ahh, the old scratched my gun with the wedding ring story. Did that a few months ago shooting my CZ85. It scratched the finish all the way to bare metal. That afternoon, I checked to see wear my ring hits the frame when I shoot. The ones where my ring doesn't hit the grip have wraparound grips.
 
I have to be really careful handling other's guns because of my wedding ring...it's Titanium. It could really put a hurtin' on a friend's gun!
 
Gun = tool.

Do you whine when you scratch a tool?

(if you do you're a tool fool)

I consider them honest wear marks, like the wrinkles on my face.

LOL


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"All my ammo is factory ammo"
 
Yep - had a wedding band scratch the points off the checkering on my 1100. Solved the problem the easy way - divorce..... :D

Giz
 
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