What lessons have you learned "the hard way"?

I learned yesterday.... maybe let your revolver cool a bit before loading and holstering after 80 rounds at the range. Especially if you carry SOB.
 
If you find something you've been wanting, buy it. It'll be gone tomorrow.

That's how I snagged a 4" 22 LR Diamondback for $299 plus tax. Ditto with a flatside C-96 for $600 (when the dealer found out it was an early one, he would have charged more), M-1 Carbine for $100.
 
Don't ever buy a Bersa product. My Bersa Thunder 380 broke on the 5th round out of a new pistol. Bersa does not have a factory repair facility in the USA, and you have to rely on one of their subcontracted gunsmiths. You have to pay shipping of pistol to their subcontractor. Then it takes over 30 days to receive your pistol back for a minor repair.

Go with a Beretta, Sig or even an SCCY prior to a BERSA. Also you will be buying a USA made product. :)
 
Don't leave a 230 grain bullet from your reloading bench on the coffee table so your 5 year old daughter can throw it at the tv and break your 800 magnavox.
 
Shooting a bolt gun left handed? When you work the bolt with your right hand, move you left thumb out of the way.:eek:

Learned circa 1987; first deer season using my brother's Mossberg 20 ga bolt action shotgun.
 
Don't wear shorts and short socks to a range with walls dividing the lanes. While using my brother's AK47 at an indoor range many years back I was wearing shorts, and socks that didn't even come up to my ankles. While shooting, a spent casing bounced off the wall in just a way so that it landed right in my shoe, touching my bare ankle. Needless to say it caught my attention real quick :eek:, and will never happen again.
 
Go Back and read the third post again, ...by cOnspire. The exact same thing happened to me. The pain was equivalent to having a red-hot ice pick thrust into your eye. If you look at any semi-auto pistol, from the rear, in a shooting position, while holding it up and pointing it towards a light source and moving it around a little, you will see some areas of daylight coming through. These are areas where the burning gases, products of the powder combustion and even burning powder can exit rearward. I was able to see an almost instantaneous red hot burning particle of powder propelled right into my eye. This will never happen again. Much less likely to happen with revolvers, due to the recoil plate, but people standing close next to you are possible victims. Eyes & ears -- ALWAYS.
 
Put them away

I had bought a As new High Standard Victor. What a nice looking gun.
After a shooting session I left the gun in the carry case. (I think the case pre-dated closed cell foam).
After about 10 days decided to put it away in the safe. I open the case and the gun has rust and pitting on the slab sided barrel.:mad:
You just feel sick about it, but you never do it again.
I always put several drops of gun oil on my guns and smear it around with my fingers, this leaves plenty of protection on the metal surface.
 
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