teejhot.40cal
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I heard a famous gun writer quote this in a magazine. "Show me a police station with no holes and I will show you a place that isn't dedicated enough."
Ever had an accident?
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I heard a famous gun writer quote this in a magazine. "Show me a police station with no holes and I will show you a place that isn't dedicated enough."
My friend came down from Arkansas to get married and i was his best man well one night about a week before his wedding he showed me his Parker longslide 45 he had recently bought. When he gave it to me we were all sitting at the kitchen table it was in a case loaded (chambered round) so i removed it and unoaded it looked it over for a while.
When i was done i began to load it back, I locked the slide back inserted a round in the chamber, released the slide, and bang. Thankfully i always point guns that im handeling in a safe direction when loading and unoading and all that was damaged was the kitchen table. When he got back home his local smith had a look it had a worn sear.
But the way his now wife nags him i should have just put him out of his misery
When i was done i began to load it back, I locked the slide back inserted a round in the chamber, released the slide, and bang. Thankfully i always point guns that im handeling in a safe direction when loading and unoading and all that was damaged was the kitchen table. When he got back home his local smith had a look it had a worn sear.
But the way his now wife nags him i should have just put him out of his misery
dang it!!!!!!, i read this post a few months back and at the time i had NEVER had an ND, well guys, guess what...........Thats right it happened today. i was unloading my mossy 500 12ga when the phone rang and i got distracted, well after the phone call i guess i thought i had gotten all the rounds out when i decided to release the trigger spring (like i've done a million times before cleaning) pulled the trigger and BANG my ears were ring like crazy, to make matters worse i had my slug barrel on and a slug ripped upwards towards the top of my wall....went through every wall in my house through the garage ceiling and lodged into the top of a tree outside the garage (my garage is connected to the house), thank god i was pointing the shotgun upwards otherwise i'd be willing to bet it would have continued into the neighbors house!!!! i will never again become complacent... let the flaming begin, i deserve it.
Since this thread is as old as my dog, I'll go back almost twenty years to a very embarrassing moment. Not a ND, a SD (stupid discharge). This is really embarrassing.... When I was learning to shoot a handgun, I was at the range with a buddy. The guy in the next stall must have hit a hanger or something, because it knocked a flourescent tube-bulb loose at one end. The thing came down swinging side to side. With my ears on, I though my buddy yelled "Get it!" it was actually the other guy yelling "SH*T". Being a newbie, I thought it was some kind of drop down swinging target - didn't recognize it as an extremely long bulb, so....yeah, I got off two shots - both missed. I looked to both sides & saw about five guys staring at me, one with his finger on the switch for the warning light, jaw agap. 
The silence was broken when the bulb let loose & crashed to the floor. I just said; "That wasn't me".
The silence was broken when the bulb let loose & crashed to the floor. I just said; "That wasn't me".The only AD I was a part of was the other day I was sittin' here at the computer sick as a dog and tried to fart and had an AD
Seriously though I had an ND as a kid with a buddy and I shooting sparrows with a pellet gun and we were taking turns.. He missed and wouldn't hand it over so we were tussling over it and it fired. Hit an 8ft fluorescent light dead center (they seem to attract projectiles
)... In slow motion I watched it fall the 20 feet from the ceiling to crash at our feet.
Brent
Seriously though I had an ND as a kid with a buddy and I shooting sparrows with a pellet gun and we were taking turns.. He missed and wouldn't hand it over so we were tussling over it and it fired. Hit an 8ft fluorescent light dead center (they seem to attract projectiles
)... In slow motion I watched it fall the 20 feet from the ceiling to crash at our feet.Brent
Spade Cooley
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Yes and it happened this year. I took my 1911 45 Auto to the range to test fire a few shots to test out the new trigger. I dropped the loaded magazine and thought I had jacked open the slide. Evidently I had jacked the slide before dropping the mag. I pointed the pistol down range and pulled the trigger and it went boom. I was in shock and so were others on the range. The range was cold and no one was down range when I pointed the pistol in that direction. That was my first accidental discharge and I will take steps to see that it never happens again. About the only thing I did do right was make sure the pistol was pointed down range when I squeezd it off.
Edward429451
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That would be a true AD (accidental) because of the weapon malfunction. Most others are ND's (negligent).
Niantician
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To say that you can't have an accidental discharge, in my opinion is wrong. I've seen AR15's and M16's slamfire during reloading. The firing pin taps the primer everytime you release the bolt onto a new round. If you have a soft primer or a round that has been chambered too many times BAM! Design flaw or bad round. Whatever you want to call it. It's accidental and the only thing you can do, is make sure you're pointing the rifle in a safe direction everytime you chamber a round. This happened at work, and I work for a corporation that's willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars to prevent accidents like this at work. After months of investigating, the only answer they had was 'muzzle awareness"
I've never had a ND yet.
Like others here, I have had an "Oh Sh*t" moment when I realized I almost screwed up. Like the time I was shooting a friend's revolver, trooper special or some such thing, loaded it, cocked the hammer and then swept my friend's legs. When I raised the pistol to fire, the trigger was amazingly light. I realized how easy, with that trigger, it could have been to blow a hole in my buddy's leg.
I did witness an ND that scared the crap out of me. Was at a friend's ranch where there were 6 guys hunting. My friend and I were visiting and all 6 hunters loaded into a 4-door pickup about 40 yards away. All the doors close, and a moment later, kabooooom! Like fricken artillery went off and the rear window just disintegrated. We looked at each other and thought, no way we are going up to that pickup. About that time, all 4 doors are thrown open and the 6 guys bailed out.
Come to find out, a 16 year old in the back had a .300 mag, butt down, barrel up in the back middle seat. Leaned the barrel back between him and guy to his side. Somehow he torched it off. Luckily, it went off between the two and right out the back window.
The kid's dad could not comprehend why my buddy told him he and his hunting buddies had to leave that afternoon.
My friend explained that where we lived and what we do, firearms are tools used everyday. With our families around us constantly, we do not abide by people who make mistakes with firearms. Too much at stake. I'm sure that guy still doesn't get it.
Like others here, I have had an "Oh Sh*t" moment when I realized I almost screwed up. Like the time I was shooting a friend's revolver, trooper special or some such thing, loaded it, cocked the hammer and then swept my friend's legs. When I raised the pistol to fire, the trigger was amazingly light. I realized how easy, with that trigger, it could have been to blow a hole in my buddy's leg.
I did witness an ND that scared the crap out of me. Was at a friend's ranch where there were 6 guys hunting. My friend and I were visiting and all 6 hunters loaded into a 4-door pickup about 40 yards away. All the doors close, and a moment later, kabooooom! Like fricken artillery went off and the rear window just disintegrated. We looked at each other and thought, no way we are going up to that pickup. About that time, all 4 doors are thrown open and the 6 guys bailed out.
Come to find out, a 16 year old in the back had a .300 mag, butt down, barrel up in the back middle seat. Leaned the barrel back between him and guy to his side. Somehow he torched it off. Luckily, it went off between the two and right out the back window.
The kid's dad could not comprehend why my buddy told him he and his hunting buddies had to leave that afternoon.
My friend explained that where we lived and what we do, firearms are tools used everyday. With our families around us constantly, we do not abide by people who make mistakes with firearms. Too much at stake. I'm sure that guy still doesn't get it.