Misfire McCoy
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NotMeNotYou
"No snide comments, no "woulda, coulda, shoulda", this poor guy is going to live with the result of his actions for the rest of his life. Very, very sad story."
Thanks man. As on another forum I belong to I'll play W/C/S for a moment, but I want to say that I appreciate what you said
Was my accident entirely my fault? Yup. Was it due to poor weapon handling and outright clumsiness? Absolutely. Preventable? Of course. However, I do like to think that it could be a situation anyone could be in: tense as a rattlesnake because it's a robbery to begin with and didn't end as expected, nervous with energy and trying to handle a cell phone to call the police. If I had been carrying my .32-20 Colt PPS, maybe things would have been different, or maybe I would have scratched my head with the muzzle and wound up a vegetable at best- in any case, I had my PGO Mossberg 500 (well, a Sears-Roebuck clone) and too little brain function to safely organize myself. I could have sat down, or put the safety on, or set the gun down before calling 911, or an infinite amount of other things, but I didn't. I was as preoccupied and mixed-up as I ought not to have been and I wound up unable to do the moonwalk ever again.
I was and am an example of less-than-stellar firearms safety, the four rules and all else, and if I'm going to be a bad example of all that and live on as "that shotgun guy" then I want the firearms community to understand a momentary lapse in judgement can result in some outstandingly crappy consequences. "If you screw up you gotta own up" is a good summation of what one must do when things like this occur, and I screwed up in the most dramatic, look-at-this-freakin'-guy way I could manage. Let it be a warning against using a PGO- unless you're a high-speed low-drag moto operator you probably don't need one- and a good story to remind folks of the power we carry in our weapons.
Also, try an keep your health insurance. If you do lose it, don't pick up a shotgun for the first 12 hours. Personal tip
"No snide comments, no "woulda, coulda, shoulda", this poor guy is going to live with the result of his actions for the rest of his life. Very, very sad story."
Thanks man. As on another forum I belong to I'll play W/C/S for a moment, but I want to say that I appreciate what you said
Was my accident entirely my fault? Yup. Was it due to poor weapon handling and outright clumsiness? Absolutely. Preventable? Of course. However, I do like to think that it could be a situation anyone could be in: tense as a rattlesnake because it's a robbery to begin with and didn't end as expected, nervous with energy and trying to handle a cell phone to call the police. If I had been carrying my .32-20 Colt PPS, maybe things would have been different, or maybe I would have scratched my head with the muzzle and wound up a vegetable at best- in any case, I had my PGO Mossberg 500 (well, a Sears-Roebuck clone) and too little brain function to safely organize myself. I could have sat down, or put the safety on, or set the gun down before calling 911, or an infinite amount of other things, but I didn't. I was as preoccupied and mixed-up as I ought not to have been and I wound up unable to do the moonwalk ever again.
I was and am an example of less-than-stellar firearms safety, the four rules and all else, and if I'm going to be a bad example of all that and live on as "that shotgun guy" then I want the firearms community to understand a momentary lapse in judgement can result in some outstandingly crappy consequences. "If you screw up you gotta own up" is a good summation of what one must do when things like this occur, and I screwed up in the most dramatic, look-at-this-freakin'-guy way I could manage. Let it be a warning against using a PGO- unless you're a high-speed low-drag moto operator you probably don't need one- and a good story to remind folks of the power we carry in our weapons.
Also, try an keep your health insurance. If you do lose it, don't pick up a shotgun for the first 12 hours. Personal tip