Stupid Things You've Done With A Weapon

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DorGunR

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Chu Lai, Vietnam New Years eve 1969. The Commanding General had
issued an order that NO weapons would be fired at midnight….well he
might as well have said "lock & load" …yeah, you guys know where this
is going. I loaded a 30 round mag of .45 ACP tracer ammo in preparation
for midnight. Now, Chu Lai is on the coast and my hooch was on a hill
overlooking the South China Sea and about 500 yards from the beach.
At midnight I started to hear the weapons opening up…I stepped out of
my hooch with my Thompson (yeah personal weapon & illegal) pointed
it at a 45 degree angle out over the South China Sea and cut loose. Gawd
those tracers looked good. Then I noticed the huge amount of ordinance
that was going skyward ( a whole Division) and knew it had to come down
somewhere……oops. :eek:
Spent the rest of the night with a bottle of Johnny Walker in a sandbagged
bunker. :p


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"Lead, follow or get the HELL out of the way."
 
Let someone else handle my firearm.

Actually, in Florida I had a carry permit and carried a .32 long revolver. My fiancee at the time was scared of guns, knew I carried but 'lived with it'. Her mom is a French national and was around during the German occupation. The mom hated guns...so like the fool I am, I left my jacket in the house while GF and I took and evening stroll. Her mom moves the jacket and-OOPS!

Our relationship really went down from that point in time, I beleive.

c'est la vie.

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Working at my mother's book shop many moons ago. Her partner (a wimp) and a customer were there. I stood up from the chair I was sitting in, and my pistol, in a shoulder holster, dropped out and onto the floor.

THUNK!

I hadn't gotten the retainer snapped, or it undid when I was moving some stuff earlier.

The customer wasn't too uptight, but my mom's partner was.

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Beware the man with the S&W .357 Mag.
Chances are he knows how to use it.
 
I sold a Colt Gov't model in 1968 for $100.

Worse, I had paid $67 for it so I was happy with the $33 profit.

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. :o
 
Me and some family were plinking on my stepdad's farm 4th of July, 1994. We were shooting .22's at milk jugs when my brother in law pulls out his Colt Double Eagle 45.

I got the first shot off, standing about 6 feet away from a metal shed on my left with no ear plugs.

Have had a ringing in my left ear off and on since then.
 
Dumbest thing I ever did, fortunately, was to try to save $100 by buying a Llama .357 back in 1975. Hey, it looked just like the Smith, but it only ever fired one shot. First day I took it shooting, the hammer-mounted firing pin poked all the way through the primer and stuck there. Would NOT come out and I wasn't about to use force on it since there were 5 more rounds in it.

Took it back and spent the extra for the S&W Model 19, which has never failed me. Whoever said reliability is #1 was right.
 
I never did anything stupid with a weapon, never even held one!

I did do something stupid with a firearm, or lack there of.... I didnt buy something when It was $300, now it costs over $2500..... dumb dumb dumb!

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-AoW[t]-Dead [Black Ops]
 
Dead,
Please repeat after me...

"This is my weapon
This is my gun
This is for shooting
This is............." :)

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"Lead, follow or get the HELL out of the way."
 
Sell one.

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"It is easier to get out of jail then it is a morgue"
Live long and defend yourself!
John 3:16
NRA lifer
GOA
GSSF
KABA
 
I sold a gun to a person I KNEW wouldn't take care of it. Then I got to clean it up as much as possible before he tried to sell it to someone else. I've never seen rust on the INSIDE of a slide before.
 
Dennis, been there/done that (still kickin' about "those deals" I made a handy profit from in the olden days. :(

& other than shooting an HBAR round through my living room window once - what we talking about here anyways? ;) / :(
 
I think it's time I got some new glasses. At first I thought the post topic was "Stupid things you've done with a WOMAN". Boy, have I got some stories!

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Just one of the Good Guys
 
Stupidest thing I ever did was trying to do some home gunsmithing and ruined a black powder revolver. Luckily it was an Uberti copy so I only had about $60 into it, but I sure felt like an idiot.
 
Not me but a LEO on a department north of me. He had made a traffic stop and ended up arresting the driver of the car on some misdemeanor charge. That department inventories all vehicles they impound, so Jon law was listing everything he found in the car, "1 copy of 1953 BATMAN comicbook, 4 empty paper cups, 1 S&W M19 .357 Magnum revolver." Our hero is, now, tres excited since he has a felony charge to plop on the driver. A quick finish of the inventory and off to the station to finish booking the perp.

A long dialog insued about the revolver in the car that the arrested party denied ever having as well as denying that he even owned a firearm. While all this was going on, someone was running the serial number on the M-19 to see if it was reported stolen. (can you see where this is going?)

"Hey, Frank. Where is your revolver? Did you put it in the gun box when you brought him in?"

"Yeah, I think I did."

"The Smith is yours, you dropped it during the inventory."



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Ne Conjuge Nobiscum
"If there be treachery, let there be jehad!"
 
TBeck,
Are you Tbeck from P-town CA. Mikes Dad? (sorry to hear of his death if you are and Pat's too.) If so write me at cdfuller76@hotmail.com and I'll remind you of who the hell I'am.
 
James,
I sold all of my guns already and I've taken up a new hobby! It's a card game! Kinda like Canasta only you play for a little bit of money.

Why dontcha grab a couple thousand bucks and c'mon down! We'll show you how to play.

Errrr, James, you haven't ever heard of 'poker', have you? ;)
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Seriously, that gov't model sale still grates on my nerves. So I guess I've learned something since then. (I hope! :D )
 
I got a beautiful excellent condition 4" Colt Diamondback at a gun show few years ago and when I got home I showed it to my wife. Dumb dumb dumb... Now if I want to shoot it I have to get permission from my wife. Recently I heard her talking about getting a custom ivory grip for it. Good thing I didn't show her the 6" Python.
 
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