Lets hear your AD Stories. Come on...Fess up!!

Does this one count?

I was sighting in a scope on my 30-06 at an indoor shooting range - no one else was around. When I was done and my target was right in front of me, I very casually remembered "oh yeah, press the trigger just to make sure.....BAM!" I was just going through the motions and didn't expect to actually have a round chambered. I was holding the rifle down by my waist when I pressed the trigger - fortunately it was pointed downrange. The muzzle blast blew a huge hole in the cardboard target support (really demonstrated the ferocity of 30-06 muzzle blast). I had a good grip on the gun, so no harm, other than I was startled.
 
ive been in on 3, one was my fault, the other 2 i witnessed.


i was about 16 walking down the hallway in my parents house with a single shot sawed off 12 gauge cocked and in my hand facing down as i walked, the gun bounced in my hand as i walked and pulled the trigger, luckily my hand was in the way just enough it snared the hammer and it didnt hit with 100% power, it clicked instead of boomed.

one night i was at a party and a guy was showing me his ruger 9mm auto, cocked and pointing it at the ceiling directly over his friends head, he pulled the trigger and put a hole in the ceiling.

last one was at an outdoor shooting range, my ex wifes motherinlaw (rip) was shooting a blackhawk 44 mag, she wasnt sure if it was loaded or not so pointed it at the ground (basically at my feet) to test it lol. I jumped back, she realised what she was doing (the whole time thinking it was loaded), adjusted her aim to a spot in between and pulled the trigger and BOOM. It was single action and i guess she didnt know enough about it on how to check if it was loaded or not, but she turned pure white when i went off.
 
egor20 said:
20 acres is a pain to walk back to the barn (actually one of my hands came out with a truck looking for me when she showed up alone)
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A SQUARE plot of 20 acres is only ~311 yards on a side. If it were a square 40 acre plot cut in half either direction, which would be much more common, it would still only be 440 yards the LONG way. Typo? 2000 acres maybe...?

Several years ago, I had a .22 auto pistol slam fire, shooting a hole through both sides of a wall sheeted with 1/2" sheetrock, then traveled lengthwise down a closet putting two holes in the left sleeve of virtually every long sleeved shirt I owned. :o

This past hunting season, I had a hunter standing in front of a stop sign on one of my roads "unload her rifle", and somehow put one right through the stop sign. I wasn't there, but my daughter was. Fortunately, there wasn't anyone else out on the place in the direction the bullet took.
 
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My only personal ND came on a trap field when I yelled "pull" while simultaneously squeezing the trigger. File that one under "not in the zone." Needless to say, that wasn't my best line of trap ever.

My family ND story is a more classic cautionary tale: Dad was eleven and decided to "play" with my grandpa's Luger pistol (a souvenir from WWII). He was waving it around like a toy at my aunt and it went off, punching a hole through the wall and out the side of the house about 9 inches away from her shoulder. Dad was still white as a sheet when Grandpa came home that night. Grandpa just looked at him square in the eye and said, "Guess you learned your lesson, huh?" Dad's a crack long gun shooter but is still uncomfortable with handguns to this day...

The positive ending to that story is that gun safety was always priority one, in our household and for me, growing up around firearms. It's a legacy I'm trying to pass on to my daughter, in turn.
 
N/D here...

I had come home from a range trip where I shot several handguns. One was my S&W 64 revolver. As usual I was unloading my rangebag, and stowing my gear...when I take out the 64 and decide to caress the trigger. Using a tool box as a safe direction I began indexing the trigger. faster and faster until BOOM!!! In a panic I look to see where the round went. No damage other than the tool box... I open the cylinder, and there was one round in one chamber. My negligence for not chamber checking the gun... I asumed the gun was empty because I remember unloading at the range...
 
In Louisiana, when I was about 15 or so. I'd been shooting rats and cans at the town dump, which was across the Mississippi River levee from my small town. Being finished with shooting (probably out of ammo for my 22), I had walked to the top of the levee when a car full of girls showed up. It was mostly cheerleaders and they were 17 or so and all pretty and perfumed up, and therefore qualified as older women. I had a crush on most all of them. I had my old Stevens 87D autoloader 22, which was loaded at the time, and the safety was on. But...the screws that hold the safety in the proper position had loosened, which meant that the safety wasn't really on. So while I was blissfully talking to the girls, I rested the muzzle of the rifle on the tip of my tennis shoe (Chuck Taylors, in white). When they got ready to drive back to town, I lifted the rifle and I guess I hit the trigger when I did so. BANG! I looked down. There was a small hole in the end of the shoe. The girls asked if I was Ok and I lied and said "Yes", and they drove off. I was out of that shoe in 3 seconds and found that the bullet had gone just north of my second toe. I'm not sure if that was accidental or negligent, or both.
 
I'm of the opinion that all accidents are caused by negligence, and all the negligent discharges I've read about in this thread were also accidents. Nobody intended to be negligent, but they were.

Due to my negligence, I accidentally fired my 1911 while trying to clear a jam. I hadn't had it very long and it was my first gun, so I didn't know the best way to clear it. My finger slipped and pulled the trigger just as a round went in the camber. It was pointed in the general direction of the target, and nobody was in any danger.

These days I hold my finger off the trigger, even if it is a drill or a hot glue gun.
 
Crap... Just about 2 month ago my uncle gave me a really neat looking .22lr Glenield Model 60 (Marlin 60) tube fed rifle. I was very excited about the the old gun and was looking it over in the garage. I decided to load up a single round and chamber it just to see how it operated because I'd never owned/used a tube fed rifle. Bad idea. The trigger assembly screws were loose and damn thing slamfired! Scared the holy hell out of me, and the wife came running out to the garage to check if I was ok. She was surprisingly cool about it, and just glad I was ok.

Funny thing is, the bullet hit an unfinished wall in the garage, but I cannot find the point of contact. However, on the outside of the wall, a two inch area off stucco was knocked out, about half an inch deep, but no hole. Weird...:confused:

Moral of the story: Always thourghly inspect a newly acquired firearm before loading/shooting.
 
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Funny thing is, the bullet hit an unfinished wall in the garage, but I cannot find the point of contact. However, on the outside of the wall, a two inch area off stucco was knocked out, about half an inch deep, but no hole. Weird...
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Sounds like it hit something solid that stopped the bullet but moved a bit in the process. Look for a nail head that's not a nail head anymore.
 
Haven't had one, but gotten a few reminders to always be careful.

Got a new Single Six a while back and still getting a feel for the gun. A habit I've gotten into is to always shoot my six shots +1 for the click, as I'd find myself losing track from time to time. Just finished a set and got that nagging feeling where I wasn't sure if I'd gone through them all or not. Pointed downrange and nothing in particular and sure enough, BANG! Very much reinforced the need to be careful with that one and felt more than a little shame when I acknowledged I was genuinely surprised when it went off. Like I said, downrange and at the range, but still.

Just this last time out I went through a set and got a click. Opened it up to eject the cases and found out I'd left one chamber empty and the next round was live. Had followed the safety rules so no problem, but again, one of those little surprises that illustrate how something bad can happen.

Accidents are usually a series of the exact right things going exactly wrong in an unlikely order.
 
Not my own AD but many many years ago a friend and I were in a pawn shop and he asked to look at a Beretta .22 or .25 with the tip up barrel, and he turned it butt-up to see there was no magazine in place, and pulled back the slide several times to see if the chamber was empty. (At this point in time we all cringe....Tip up barrel Beretta has NO EXTRACTOR) .... but we were both young enough to be marginally dumb but in a safe move he aimed at a table lamp by the wall and pulled the trigger. No, the lamp did not survive, but we both learned something that day. Since then there are NO UNLOADED WEAPONS unless I see for myself that the CHAMBER is empty.
 
I've got 2.5. All between ages... Oh, I'll say 10-14.


1) Shooting a Ruger Single Six. I cocked the gun and for some reason decided that I didn't want to shoot. I put my thumb on the hammer to decock the gun. My thumb slipped. *BANG*.

2) Shooting a Ruger Blackhawk. Similar to the above in that I had cocked the gun to shoot, changed my mind, and then decocked the gun. I continued shooting. Eventually the hammer fell on an empty chamber and I - forgetting that I'd skipped a chamber - thought the gun was empty. Just as a matter of habbit, I pointed the gun downrange and "fired" a couple of times. *BANG*. I file this one under AD because I while it is true I was knowingly pulling a trigger and the gun was pointed in a safe direction, I did NOT expect the gun to fire.

0.5) Firing a .22 LR. I'm counting my rounds as I shoot and on what should have been the last shot the gun goes "click." I cycle the action and sure enough there's been a misfire. Believing the gun empty, and done with that gun for the moment, I set it aside. Maybe 10 minutes later, I went back to that gun and during a matter-of-habbit weapons check found that it still had one round in it. Either during loading or firing I'd lost count and I'd failed to check the gun before I set it aside. No, there was no discharge during this event, but finding that round in the gun shocked me every bit as if there had been.
 
about 25 years ago i had a older rem. 550 semi-auto .22 rifle and after a range session,i had ran it dry and worked the action several times and pulled the trigger and got a click. after getting out of my truck in my drive way i again worked the action several times and went into the celler to tear it down and clean it, i laid it on my work bench,got my cleaning equipment out ,picked up the rifle like i had done many times before and pulled the trigger to take the spring pressure off the end cap that screws off to take the guts out, well i got a bang when i pulled the trigger and sent a .22 bullet into the wall. the only thing i could think of was dirt or fouling in the cartige tube that stopped the shell from feeding and by working the action jarred it loose the last time i worked the action. now i take the tube out when done shooting and also clean the feed tube with a ram rod with a patch on it. due to always not pointing a gun at any thing i didn,t want to shoot saved the day,just hurt my ego. eastbank.
 
Hello all,
Years ago when my brother and I still lived in my parents house, Dad had a German knock off of a Ruger BlackHawk in 357 Magnum.
It didn't have a transfer bar safety on and we had it loaded and were playing with it in our room. After playing with it for a while it was thrown down on a beanbag chair and left.

The next day my brother got home before me and forgetting the gun what there he grabbed the beanbag chair and lifted it up and shook it out, he saw something fall and looking down at it just in time for it to fall on the hammer.

Well the bullet went just inches past his head and into the ceiling where it rests to this day. Lesson learned.

Happy shooting
Scott5
 
Had one ND and hopefully my last. I kept it pointed down range but still....

I was shooting with family and my sister wanted to shoot my 92FS. I was shooting her fiances new Bersa Thunder 380. There were a total of 4 of us on the firing line outdoors on our own range. While shooting my sister kept creaping, she was getting in a bad position quickly. I kept my firearm pointed down range, placed my offhand on her to keep her from moving any farther forward and placed my trigger finger down the side of the frame just below the slide. I had a good amount of force on said finger when trying to use my thumb to decock the safety (decocker model). The dang thing was stubborn as hell and while appying a bunch of pressure my thumb slipped off and my trigger finger slipped into the trigger guard. Two quick shots happened and I got some major slide bite. Thanks goodness I kept it down range...
 
There is never an excuse for an ND. If it happens, it means that the person holding the firearm violated one or more of the basic firearms safety rules. Now, with that said, I'll only say that, due to two separate incidents of my youth, there is one floor, and also a ceiling, that will NEVER threaten me again.:o
 
got hold of a pistol as a teen. Nobody taught me about guns, but I naturally loved them, so, I taught myself. Wound up putting a round through my moms kitchen wall, and very nearly, my knee. I always sat in this particular chair, and a freind when visiting, would have been sitting in the other. Good thing I was alone, because the bullet would have passed through whoever was sitting there, somewhere above the mid chest, neck or head.

Teach your kids about guns.
 
Near miss.

The other day, I got a new camera phone, and wanted to take a picture of the sight picture of the M&P. Well, I very nearly took the picture with the trigger, instead of the camera button. Luckily, I had my trigger finger where it belonged.
 
All good stories, and all to the point, each of them was not an accident, but a negligent discharge, due to failure to heed the rules. Fortunately, no one was injured or killed. I know two people who were badly wounded by negligence, one a fast draw discharge down a leg, the other a bullet in the elbow, each required months of rehabilitation and surgery. Another is a co-worker, his son killed by an unloaded shotgun as he pulled it out of a boat.
 
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