Stupidest thing you've done

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The Stupidest thing I've done was to do some dry firing at work after a 70 hour in 6 day work week when every body else had already left. After a while I came up the brainstorm to use a full Mag in my P220 so the balance of the gun would be right. After another 10 minutes I could not figure out why the slide had a slight hesitation when I pulled it back and released it. So I looked down the barrel and thought about it and thought I should pull the trigger and see what happens. Then I rembered you don't point the gun at any thing you can't replace so I did an aim behind the back thing and pointed at the back door. Then all hell broke loose. I hit a 100 psi airline never did find where the bullet went after that. Needless to say I was wide awake after that, and feeling very lucky and very stupid.
 
Me stoopid too!

My first handgun was a beautiful Browning HP that I shot for years but then unfortunately had to sell when times were lean. Years later I had a CZ-75, very similar gun, and took it into a sporting good store to see if it would fit a holster I was looking at (with the managers permission). I took the magazine out so it must be safe right? Wrong, the CZ doesn't have a magazine disconnect. Push pistol into holster with finger on trigger...BLAM.....hole through holster, then glass counter top, then side of counter, then into rack of pool cues, then into floor. Cost me about $500 in damages, but thank God no one was hurt. It was well worth the money for the lesson I learned. That's why their called "negligent discharges".

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FUD,

No wonder you had a problem with that .22 auto if you loaded the magazine with bullets. Most of us use the whole cartridge.

Seriously, guys, I once put a hole in the wall of my workshop because I forgot that a Colt DA cylinder turns opposite from an S&W. Also taught me not to check headspace with live ammo.

To answer the question that started all this, firing a couple of 9mms in a .40 S&W won't hurt anything. I did this a couple of dozen times to prove to doubters that it could happen.

Jim
 
I was about 10 or 11 and after about a year I talked my folks into letting me buy a 22 blank gun. One night when they were at the movies and granddad was watching us in another roon I got to thinking about just what was in those 22 blanks. I put a needle into the small hole in the center of the crimp. Had no idea what I was doing. There was the largest noise I ever heard but my life.Granddad being half deaf never heard it. I did get all types of metal particles in my fingers but lucky for me my eyes were not hurt.It doesn't get more stupid than that.Don't tell anyone!
 
Had a small .22 revolver that only had the number 17 and an eagle on it. Knew nothing about it, had a couple CCI Maxi-Mags laying around the range box, they fit so I pulled the trigger. Picking chunks of metal outta my hand for weeks, blew a WWI relic German .22 to pieces :(

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Happiness is a smoking gun and a dead criminal;)
 
I was at the range with my brother when I fired a Beretta model 950BS .25 auto down range. I then quickly realized that I forgot to put on my ear muff hearing protectors. The muffs were down around my neck. I reached up grabing the muffs with both hands and pointed the muzzle of the pistol to my right temple. The pistol was cocked and ready to fire with my finger still on the trigger. I stopped, slowly lowered the pistol and made it safe. My brother who was looking down range at the time had not realized what just happened. I told him and felt very stupid and also very luckly to still be alive. The trigger pull on that S/A pistol was very light. :(
 
Hmm, probably the stupidest thing I ever did resulted in spending the night in a holding cell, sweating off a .21 BAC. And fines, and lawyer fees, and weekends picking up trash....

My stupid firearms tricks are pretty minor: didn't use hearing protection the first time I shot a handgun; bought .40 mags for a 9mm carbine (took a couple of trips to the range before I figured out why it was jamming); didn't set the firing-pin selector correctly on a Contender (took a couple of trips to the range....).
 
Okay, I'm in. My dad's baby was/is a Ruger Super Blackhawk single-action .44 magnum sixshooter named "Sweet Lips" (yes, from Jeffrey Chaucer's 'Miller's Daughter'). One Christmas break when I was about ten years old, we loaded up a bunch of plastic, primer-cap only target rounds and set up a target and catch box in the living room. We practiced lowering the gun into battery and firing as the sites came on. I wasn't quite aware of how light that trigger was. That was thirty-three years ago and there is still a little depression in my parent's ceiling, even though I've asked them to fill it! :p

Fast forward to ten years ago. My cousin takes me shooting at a range with his Taurus 92. It's my first experience with a semi-auto so he carefully explains that you can't do the laced thumbs thing. Despite this, a neat, surgical slice magically appears on the joint of my laced thumb after my first shot. :rolleyes:

Bob


[This message has been edited by Bob Womack (edited February 05, 2000).]
 
I was 14 at that time and I was alone in the house. Took my father's revolver and copied de Niro of " Deer Hunter". Even shouted "MAO" before pulling the trigger. Luckily for me my old man doesn't know anything about hand gun either. He always put oil in the barrel and clean his bullets with oil. So we got a dude. I dont know what made me do it. I realize after that Im one lucky bastard. The bullet I played with was directly in front of the chamber. I have great respect in handguns after that.

vega
 
Bar-none dumbest thing I've ever done was pawn a .41 mag snub of very nice quality for $125.00 for beer money when I was home on leave from the Marines. I think it was an Astra or something (My interest in handguns was very minimal back then) To this day I feel sick thinking about it. The shop owner tripped over himself to buy it from me! It was a beautifully blued gun and if I ever see another, I'll buy it no matter what the price!! (Though I'm sure it will be considerable more than $125.00!!!!)

The beer was at least cold!

Chris Canis
 
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