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technician1

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Bringing up the worst day. I thought it would be interesting. To hear what was the worst thing that had happened to peoples handgun such as ...
1. scratching
2. dropping
3. chiping
These things may have led to a O Dear !!! moment. P.S. So I dont feel so bad. :cool:
 
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It was a very windy day and I had just got to the range. Got all my stuff put on the table, opened up my pistol case which had 4 guns in it. A big(huge) gust of wind came up and blew the whole case to the concrete slab below. Luckily, the lid kind of closed shut during the fall, so only one gun fell out. Only some slight scratching on that one. Could have been a lot worse.
 
I was with my brothers and we were working on pulling a transmission out of one car to put in another. My oldest brother took his pistol off his belt and put it on the hood of my Blazer. I did not know that, and somehow managed to get into the vehicle and drive away before I heard my brother screaming at me. It was in the holster, but still got some nice scratches in it when it hit the gravel.

I took my GP100 to a buddy's house and put it down on the workbench without the holster before he could tell me not to, and there was some sort of caustic crap on his bench that ate some of the bluing of the barrel and made it look terrible. Still in the process of getting that pistol lined out.

When my dad was a kid, he had snuck out to go rabbit hunting with my uncle's favorite shotgun. When he got back, he remembered his dad had told him to burn a brush pile, so he went over and lit the brush pile, using either gasoline or kerosene to speed things up. As he backed away from the fire, he saw my uncle's shotgun leaning up against the other side of the brush pile.
 
Not long after getting my first new rifle, a Winchester Featherweight 6.5x55, in 2003, I had it at the range doing load development for deer season. It was on the bench, with the butt hanging off the end. I got out of my chair to get some brass off the ground. When I stood up, my shoulder hit the stock, flipping the gun over the bench. It landed on the end of barrel, flexing it enough to push against the thin forend, cracking it near the top. When it landed, it land on a 45acp case, cutting a semi-circle out of the side of the stock. Total damage: Cracked forend, scratched barrel, and gouged stock.

The gun still shot straight, but was cosmetically a mess to my eyes. I was able to glue the crack well enough that you can't find it unless I point it out. I cold blued the scratches after buffing them out with a felt wheel and rouge. Because the stock was cosmetically ruined, I decided to glass bed the gun. Glad I did because it made the gun shoot better. I used a bit of glass bed material (properly colored) to fill in the gouge from the 45 case. The gun shoots great and because it is already dinged up, I never had to worry about that first ding in the field.

I'll never sell the rifle.

Chris
 
right before I got my permit to carry I bought a new S&W J frame Air Weight in 32 H&R Magnum ( a brand new 6 shot )... well of course I was anxious to get carrying, & didn't have a holster for my new J Frame yet... the local toy store only a cheap Uncle Mikes nylon holster... about the 2nd time I was "carrying", I got out of my 3/4 ton 4 X 4 ( not lifted, but pretty tall ), & the gun came out of he holster & skittered across the parking lot... aluminum guns & concrete are a bad mix, dropping from about 4ft off the ground didn't help either... that one incedent, caused my new gun ( 12 shots fired through it ) to look like a $40.00 pawn shop special :(
 
Man, this should get good . . .

No great calamities to contribute, the closest being . . .

I once took a solvent-soaked patch to a Parkerized surface on a 1911, and wondered where all the black crap was coming from. That singular masterwork of idiocy is still plainly evident on this carry gun.

I also sent a S&W 642 clattering across a public restroom floor (basically, an oversized WC; no one else saw or heard). I was unable to discern any damage at all, much to my utter amazement, but the gun had been carried a lot and had various cosmetic dings in the finish.
 
If I heard one of my sons say, "Oh Dear," that'd be a pretty rotten moment in my life. Wouldn't mind hearing my daughter using such a feminine exclamation.:)
 
When I bought my Kimber warrior I was so excited, I drove home with it in my hand. You know, kind of just holding it there in my lap.

Well, about the time I pulled into my drive way and pressed the button on my garage door opener, waiting to pull in, and my son who was 5 or 6 at the time, started to throw up all over the back of the car, and all over himself.

So I jumped out as fast as I could to get to him, and when I did - The Kimber that I forgot was in my lap went flying :D It stopped of course when it found the concrete driveway.

After that heartbreaking, traumatizing experience, I thought I was going to throw up too.
 
I cleaned by then brand new blued Single Six for the first time and decided to get rid of the carbon stains that had accumulated around the chamber faces. I did what I had always done with great success with my stainless revolvers, I scrubbed the chamber faces with a solvent-soaked brass brush. It worked, taking the carbon stains right off. Also, most of the blueing.:(
 
What kind of gun solvent takes off blue!? In combo with a steel brush or something? I was at the range once and this guy went to show me his pistols in his truck. Flings open the door and the tackle box full of pistols tumbles out onto the gravel below. Guns flying everywhere. He did not seem too perturbed, as if that sort of thing happened all the time. So you know how "those" guns you see at the gunshows, get that way.
 
Many years ago, I went hunting using a new Browning auto 12 ga. shotgun. I had a good hunt and was cleaning the game in my yard. I had laid my new browning on the hood of my LTD Ford. Back then, the cars had a huge front hood. My wife had a short trip to make to the store and took off with my beloved Browning on the hood. I jumped in my truck and overtook her a few blocks down the street and my gun was still resting on her hood.:eek: She thought it was just one of the kid's toy guns, lol.:D
 
My step father had a double barrel over/under 12 gauge with two triggers he rarely fired. He fired it once with a finger on each trigger; Recoil from the first shot snagged his finger and fired the second round, wrenching the gun from his hands it did a 180 degree flip and hit the ground in front of him, cracking the stock. 19 years later he still hasn't fixed it or replaced the stock....
 
I dumped a bottle of red gatorade into my gunvault while half asleep. it was standing upright so all of the bottle ended up in the gunvault and left my SW99 45 stewing in gatorade for a week until I discovered it. The finish is pitted and still has a fruity hue to it but the gun functions perfectly. Now i only bring water to bed.
 
Set a single six on a box setting on the splitter in the garage, some how it fell and got some nicks and scratches. The good thing is it was used and the newer dings are no worse that the ones that came with the revolver.
Was sick anyway.
 
Fun thread...although some stories are heartbreaking!

Mine happened a long time ago when I was a teen. It was one of the first rifles I bought myself, a Winchester Model 190. After rabbit hunting with it the first time, I was cleaning it like any other gun I had cleaned before. Unfortunately, the solvent I was using, removed the "paint" or whatever they coated the alloy receiver with. I ended up removing all the "paint" and then became a master spray can man and painted it gloss black. I still have that train wreck, but it shoots good and it makes me laugh whenever I get it out.
 
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got a new solvent and decided to give my eaa witness with the nice wonderfinish a good scrub down. well it was a nice hot day and it claimed to be a solvent/lubricant so i wiped it down and applied some more. it sat in my truck on a 100 + deg day. sure enough my beautiful finish had baked on stain with the pattern of the foam pad in my trucks center console. it will not for the life of me come out. some powder residue around the trigger leaked out and on the outside of the gun via the ejection port ... i was really excited
 
Ok but this is embracing. Got a new 22 rifle first one I ever had and I am 56 years old. Loved it it is beautiful and got a nice scope for it. Broke in the barrel as if it were a thousand dollar gun. Sighted in the scope and was dead on. Man I was in heaven. After the sight in session I took it home and started to clean it. Took the screws out to take the barrel off. The front was loose but the rear was stuck so I pulled and preyed and it finally came out. When I looked at the barrel and receiver I noticed that a screw was broken off in it. I took off the wrong screw and broke one of the two that hold the barrel to the stock. I just reached and punched myself right in the jaw.
 
Several weeks ago was at a friends house and like always the topic turns to guns.Asked if i had ever seen the Sig that he had bought last year from the department he works for.Gets it out of his safe and the first thing i said was"i never store in a leather holster"Says he has never had a problem,pulls it out and there are crystals all over the trigger guard.They wiped off along with a large amount of trigger guard.The only thing i can think of is a chemical reaction occured between the tension screw in the holster and the aluminum frame.
 
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