I feel so stupid...and lucky.

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I'd rather eat 7 day old sh*t than to tell everyone this, but maybe it will save someone else from having the same thing happen. If so, it's worth the embarrassment. Please read this and remember it.

I just had a negligent discharge in my home. I was putting my loaded Glock G31C in the drawer of my desk, where I keep it and lost my grip on it. Like a freakin' stupid a$$ idiot I tried to catch it and grabbed and pulled the trigger. Stupid move, I know. If I had just let it fall and it would never have gone off.

Luckily, the only injury I sustained was ultra minor burns from the comp ports on my left hand and of course my ears are ringing like crap. Let's just say that the drawer bottom and rear panel of the desk and the wall behind it didn't fair so well.

God I feel so stupid!!!!! :mad:

Before anyone starts whining about Glocks needing safeties, the gun wasn't at fault. I WAS!! As I said, it was a negligent discharge, not an accidental discharge.

Please, everyone, if you drop a gun or lose your grip on it, PLEASE let it fall and don't try to grab it, PLEASE. I know this isn't exactly handgun specific, but I hope it will be allowed to remain here as a safety reminder.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU

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R6...aka...Chris
 
your a better man than I am. I don't think I would admit it. I wouuld say it happened to a friend or something. :D hopfully we are smart enough to learn from others mistakes
 
Rainbow Six,

Thanks for the post and I'm very glad no serious consequences were suffered! Just remember: Experience is learning from our own mistakes...wisdom is learning from the mistakes of others. So, we all hopefully have gained some wisdom and you have gained some experience! All in all, a positive result.

Take care!

Wayne Dobbs
Richardson, TX PD
 
Yeah, I started not to post about it, but hey, I'm only human. At least I accept full responsibility for the incident and I don't blame it on the gun, which done exactly what it was designed to do.

As I said, if it helps prevent one similar incident it is worth my red faced confession.


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R6...aka...Chris
 
Chris -

As you know, there are those who have and those who will. Welcome to the club of safer shooters, the fear of God is in us and we watch ourselves all the time. Like you I had a brain fade, and BLAMMO! In my case it was loading the weapon in preparation for holstering and leaving the house. Instead of hitting the decock lever, I found the trigger - OHH S**t :mad: was my instant thought. Fortunately I had a safe backstop, 1.5 inches of hardwood/plywood floor (POI: the 165 grn Cor-Bon stayed in the floor, but blew the back off. Great expansion.)
As I stood there stunned I could only think how stupid I was, and that I had finally joined a very large club. Like you I felt dirty, and wondered if I could be an object lesson. I spread the word at the range I work at part time, to the words of "I would not tell anyone" and felt better. AND you know what, I have noticed that when handling guns, the staff and regulars (we call them homeless :D ) are all much more careful where they point guns. WHAT a relief, I actually feel like I made a difference.
!!!!! Long round of applause for your standing up. Making a mistake is not stupid, hiding it is. Let those who will learn from it. Thanks, from all of us who handle guns, for your courage.

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I'm glad nothing more serious than needing to do a patch job happened. Telling us your experience may save someone a more serious problem if they remember this in those few milliseconds they have to make a decision on grabbing a falling gun.
 
Glad to hear that you are allright, other that the ringing ears.

Thanks for posting, experience is gained 2 ways; by doing something yourself, or by listening and learning from someone else who has done it before you. I for one hadn't thought about what to do if I fumbled my gun, before this I probably would have tried to catch my gun. Now I'll just have to hope it doesn't get hurt too bad hitting the floor.

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Know Yourself, Know Your Weapon, Know Your Enemy; then Know Victory! ---DaHaMac
 
Thanks Chris, I think it is a responsible shooter's DUTY to talk about this. Reading these posts always make me a safer gun handler...
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rainbow Six:
I'd rather eat 7 day old sh*t than to tell everyone this...
I just had a negligent discharge in my home.
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Well, I don't want you to feel lonely...I'll tell you my story of a home AD.

I was decocking a 1911 (hammer down, one in the chamber...how I normally carried) when the hammer slipped from my thumb....BANG!!!
The bullet went thru the baseboard heating cover and into the fins on the hot water tubing. Luckily, it didn't nick or crack the copper tubing. Big hole in the base board heat sheet metal cover though.
I was the only one home at the time. Damn near pissed my pants!
Well, that was the last time I decocked a 1911 in the house!
Another one...
In 1988 I bought my first semi auto (Glock 17). I was doing some plinking at an informal range.
Well, it was time to go to work, so as I was setting in my pickup,I ejected the empty mag and was about to put the gun in the factory case. As Glock owners know, the case supplied with the gun has a plastic boss that the trigger guard fits into. You've got to pull the trigger to fit the gun into the case. I was just squeezing the trigger when....????
Well, I did rack the slide to check and yes, a round was jettisoned.
Boy, now how would I explain to my insurance company how I shot my own windshield out...
Learned something there, I tell you!
Reckon it's funny to look back on, but we must always remember safety....first and foremost.
So, Rainbow Six, you ain't the only one who's pulled a Delta Sierra (military slang for Dumb Sh*t).
 
Funny story. I saw a picture of a friend of mine bleeding out of his leg. He's a cop. Apparently he was holstering an HK P7 (you know, the squeeze-cocker-safety) and shot a hole into the top of his thigh, with an exit on the bottom. Luckily, it wasn't serious, but a good lesson for all. Even with a gun as safe as the P7, you still need to be careful.
 
Years ago I did a dutiful job of cleaning my (now-ex-) wife's Ruger Blackhawk. (I had bought it for me, but she liked it...) It was the under-the-mattress gun, and had its usual load of dust-bunnies.

So, all nice and clean. All reloaded. I went to let the hammer down. Have you any idea how loud a .357 mag is, inside a walk-in closet? Huh? What'd you say?

However, since it was not pointed at any valuables--human or otherwise--the only damage was to my ego and ears.

Dumbassedness can hit anybody. It always happens when you least expect it. If YOU learn, or if you can help somebody else learn, better to tell the story than to pretend it didn't happen.

Regards, Art
 
I once dropped a firearm on the top of the stairs. Watching it bounce down each step like a cartoon animal was a hell of an experience.
I know I should have hit the dirt but I was dumbfounded and frozen. It was a NAA mini
on the notch between chambers and the stairs were carpeted.

hell of a thing
 
Hi, guys,

Just about every one who has owned, used or carried guns for any length of time has has an AD. Sometimes more than one. (Yes, I have. But never with the gun pointing at myself or any other person.)

Now, for an experiment. Will all those who have owned a gun or guns for over a year and have never had an AD chime in below. We'll see how many of us are perfect.

Jim
 
Chris,
First off, I'm glad that you're OK.
Second, your admission just might make us all safer and more careful.
Thanks for posting. Scary!
Are your ears back to normal? (And did you wash your underware?? :))

Will

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Nope Jim, I am one of the imperfect ones. Dbl. shotgun with hammers, winter, gloves, birds were too far so no shot, let the hammers down, gloved thumb slips, KaBoom (sure is a lot louder when you don't expect it), big hole in ground (thank God), big apology to my partners. Never again.
 
WLM,

My ears? Back to normal other than an occasional reoccuring ringing in my left ear.
My underwear? Not worth saving. They'd never be the same, given the stains and the fact that my rearend gripped down and cut a big hole in them. They sort of looked like a paper target punched by a .22 rimfire. You know, a hole surrounded by smearing, only the smearing wasn't from lead. :D



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R6...aka...Chris
 
Wow, you've got guts to talk about it so soon. Think about the incident a lot but don't kick yourself... You'll be an even better man than you are now after the dust clears out of your mind.
I was a wimp. It took me over a year before I told anyone about my "incident".
My wife was visiting relatives for a few days so I took the opportunity to do a thorough scrubbing of all my toys. Last one was a Taurus PT-99. After cleaning; I loaded, de-cocked and headed to the bedroom (where it lives).
Tripped over wife's cat. Fell with gun in hand. The pistol hit the arm of the couch with my full weight behind it(250lbs). Safety catch caught on fabric of couch and clicked OFF. Somehow, my whole index finger(curled up, fingernail against trigger) was pushed into the trigger guard and BANG ! Bullet went into wall(no exit . glaser blue).
I quickly unloaded the pistol and checked damage. Then I sat on the floor in a daze for a while. I honestly didn't know exactly how it happened. By the tear in the couch, screwed up fingernail, and bruises on finger I figured it out.
EVERYTHING goes through your mind, doesn't it? (What if she'd been home?... Pistol pointed in another direction? ETC..)
Well, I feel for ya.
That which does not destroy you makes you stronger....Corny, but true.
 
I'm lucky, I've only had one AD, and that was out in the woods while hunting. I saw a group of deer coming up a path, so I thumb-cocked my Winchester 94.

When I realized that they were all does, I went to thumb-decock the rifle. It was cold, I was wearing hunting gloves, so the end of the story is that I nearly blew my damned foot off.

That scared me so badly that I've been ULTRA careful ever since.
 
Yep, count me in that club. With me it was a .22RF auto pistol that I used to keep in my truck. I was loading it up one day about to go someplace, cycled the slide and the sucker slam fired on me. Luckily, the only real damage was to my nerves.
Two kinds of shooters. Those who have had a ND and those that will. Its only a matter of time.

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count me in also. I performed an unscienctific and unplanned ballastic test in my living room and den about a month ago. Dry firing and fondling my HiPower's nice trigger... woooops, made the mistake of inserting loaded mag, just had to try the trigger once more. Why I racked the slide I'll never know. Took me at least 15 mins to get my sh#t together!

Just tell Marshall and Sanow that 9mm 115gr FMJ has 100% stopping power vs drywall :)

glad you are ok.
 
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