Whats your "oops" moment?

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Jeff2131

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A thread in the reloading forum prompted me to start this thread as i am curious if anyone else out there has had a "slip of the mind".

Im out in my garage cleaning the super redhawk. All done, and i decided to drop six 454's in and keep it load in the box in my gun room as a backup. The only other gun kept loaded i. My house in the past 5years has been my 40 by my bed. So having ALL guns unload is common practice in my house. So i walk in the house and into the kitchen. Put the case on the counter and make some coffee before i go upstairs to do some reloading. My wife walks in and we get to yappin. I suddenly remembered...hey i wanted to show you how smooth this trigger pull is. Procede to take the gun out and point it (away from her of course) but across the kitchen toward the dining room. I slowly start pulling the trigger to show her so i can then hand it to her to try also...BOOM! She jumps back and im standing there, ears ringing, with my mouth on the floor, looking at the gaping hole i just put in the side of the dining room hutch! This was a VERY real reminder of rule number one of gun.safety. always treat a gun like its loaded. She didnt speak to me for three days and now shes mad because the hutch is discontinued and can not be repaced...sigh. i didnt really want to tell anyone about this little incident but im curious if anyone else has ever had an "oh crap" moment.
 
Wow, just... wow!

Can't say I've ever had anything like that happen to me, because all guns are loaded all the time (even when they're not), and I verify they are empty even when I "know" they're not loaded. 100%, all the time, no exceptions.

You're lucky that you and wife are okay.
 
Last summer I was shooting with a friend and his nephews. A sudden thunder storm blew in and I told the boys to unload their rifles and put them in the cases. I loaded the cases into my car and later drove home with them.

The boys had removed the magazines but not cleared the chambers on the rifles they were shooting. I discovered this when I got home. I had driven across the county with loaded rifles in my trunk (illegal in Ohio) because I didn't check to make sure they were unloaded before I left.
 
Dood, you killed the hutch!

I slightly wounded the corner of my wall and the ceiling once because apparently counting from 1-6 was beyond my mental abilities at the time and I didn't visually verify that all the chambers of my revolver cylinder were empty.

My dad was a cop and would often have his partner and buddies over for poker and booze. One day his partner (and future president of the union) shot and killed my Mom's new electric range because he was drunkenly [messing] around with his loaded firearm. He's lucky Mom wasn't home or more than the oven would have been murdered!
 
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Hmmmm!
Blew a hole in the living room floor with a TT33 7.62x25
Was placing the gun in the holster for CCW use and BLAM!!!!
The TT33 has a half cock type safety so I am not sure how I did it.
My only thought was maybe the hammer was back and I snagged the trigger going into the holster.
It happened so quick.
I stopped using that gun for CCW.
What I liked about it was it was very thin and concealed well under a T shirt.
I carried it in a slanted IWB holster so it was very comfortable and as I said was easy to conceal.
 
Unloading a semi auto shotgun one Christmas, I cleared 8, visually inspected and moved the bolt twice more. The second movement sent a 12gauge slug ricocheting around the dining room between the 8 of us. Luck was on our side, but 3 concrete walls have 4 niks. To this day no one knows how it happened, 3 sets of highly trained eyes saw a safe weapon and yes, this was before the brandy pudding... Shot was well timed though as we learned later that we were about to be victims of a farm attack again from informants until they heard the shot back in SA
 
I shot into the end of a discarded schedule 40 PVC sewer pipe thinking I'd get the skunk that went down it...that's as much forethought I put into it.


The facts are;

The muzzle was a couple of feet from the opening of the pipe...

The skunk in effect formed an obstruction in the pipe...

.223 vmax bullet and muzzle blast entered the pipe

Pressure increased within the pipe beyond what the pipe was rated for LOL
At the same instant, the skunk was ruptured by the vmax bullet

I can leave you to imagine the rest
 
was trying some trick shooting clays and had the gun upside down over my head, yeald pull and guess I was pulled the gun in the direction of the clay and it went of, it just looked like I missed

was shooting a friends 44mag revolver, single action mode for what I thought were 5 shots (, target practise so we almost always only loaded 5, I had fired 5 8or only 4 I still dunno) I pull the trigger double action just to be sure, probalby a bad habit I have and bang it went of without me aiming, it was in the general direction of the targets so not a huge matter but I did feel it in my hand:D

I've been lucky in that I atleast followed protocol with my NDs

in the army I was a couple of meters from a dude who "dryfired" a 3 shot burst right infront of the sergeants feet, he had racked the bolt a few times but not taken the supposedly empty mag out, that got us doing 300meter sprints in full gear:mad:
 
I cleared a 9mm in the bedroom one Christmas and when I popped the slide back to eject the one in the chamber the weapon jammed. While trying to clear the jam it fired.... through bedroom to pool door and pool screen. Wife was not pleased:p

Thewelshm
 
not me but I witnessed it. was at a range shooting and the guy was shooting prone in the last spot. he emptied the rifle(ar type not sure make) he stood up and started to do drawing and firing drills. he tried to reholster the gun with his finger on the trigger and it discharged straight down into the spot right between the upper and lower receiver. it deformed them enough that he couldn't get the pins out to take the rifle apart.

the gun was prob spare parts at that point.
 
Bought a set of smooth grips with finger grooves for my EDC, after palming one set up similarly at a gun show. Took them home and installed them immediately. Reloaded the gun and set safety and forgot about it. Realized a week later I needed to clean the gun, as it hadn't been inspected for a while. Took it out-safety wouldn't budge. Locked up tighter than a drum. Obviously the grips were not made for ambi-safeties. Applying safety was no problem, releasing it though, the inner flange of the right side safety caught on wood solidly. Then reality set in. I had been virtually unarmed for the past week, though I had been quite confident. Had I run into a thug that would shriek to his mama and run at the mere sight of my almighty .45, I guess I would have been OK, but I'm pretty sure that would have been a little like winning the lotto. Two things happened over that boneheaded mistake. I spent 20 minutes with a small file on the underside of the right side grip, til perfect, and I started carrying a BUG full-time.
 
When I was a teenager I made the classic mistake with a semi auto 22 pistol. Unloaded the mag and forgot the one in the chamber. Gun sat like that for months. One day I pulled out a couple guns for some reason, and pulled the trigger on the 22. The 40 grain solid went through two interior walls and lodged inside a 3rd.
 
Yeah, I missed the cow.

Was target shooting the 44 mag. Went back of truck to load in the last lone single round. Trying to line up the full chamber to be the next shot I didn't pay attention to the muzzle direction and discharged toward a pastures with a few cows in it. Fortunate I'm as bad a shot accidentally as I am on purpose.

Live well, BE SAFE
Prof Young
 
A couple years ago I took my 228 to a gunsmith to swap the grips to E2's. That required a mainspring change and I wasn't sure I could do it or I'd have the tools I'd need. Plus I got it cleaned and checked over. Anyway, I popped the mag out and cleared the chamber and set the gun back in the hard case, and took it in to the shop.

Then I opened the case and retrieved the gun, and managed to bump the trigger in the process, and the hammer went "CLICK". The fact that I'd forgotten to decock it still bothers me today when I think about it, and what could have happened if there was a live one still in the chamber. I told the smith what I'd done and how embarrassed I was about it. He assured me that we all mess up at one time or another and not to worry about it, but I still kick myself about it.
 
When I was younger, I was quite curious. I used a utility knife to examine the contents of a .410 shell. After dumping powder and shot, I proceed to use a pliers to squeeze the base enough times as to allow removal of the primer. Examining it closely I concluded that it has to be just a glorified toy gun cap like what come on the red paper rolls. All I needed to do was place said 209 primer on the basement floor and tap it with a hammer.



I'm a bit more educated as a result.
 
When I was single, I had a Colt Detective Special. I was living in a rooming house and my landlord asked me if I was going away for the weekend, if I would leave the gun with him. No problem. I went down to visit my parents and drove back on Sunday afternoon. My landlord and his wife went out and I was left alone in the house. Hawaii Five O was coming on and I picked up the revolver to shoot Jack Lord. . . My landlord had a brand new 25 inch Magnavox tv and as the opening credits rolled. . .I picked up the revolver and pulled it to full cock with the muzzle down and raised the muzzle up to shoot Jack Lord and the bullets in the chambers clicked when they fell back inside the chambers. I carefully uncocked the weapon and unloaded it.

That was the closest I ever came to a ND and it taught me a lesson.
 
When I was about 14, I dry fired a .32 revolver hole into a closet door. It was a hollow door and FMJ, but the clothes beyond stopped the round. I think about this always during the caliber wars. Also a reminder that I didn't always follow the rules.
 
I was at the outdoor range a couple years back on a late sunday afternoon-I was all alone and finishing up testing some reloads for function in one of my 1911's well I didn't have enough crimp on one batch and the slide didnt fully shut-I dropped the mag and kept the gun pointing down range in a safe direction like I was taught as i fought to pull back the slide-what I didn't do was remember to keep my finger far away from the trigger and set the gun off downrange.
Was not and still am not very happy with myself even though I was at the range with the gun pointed downrange.I'm still very disappointed with myself!!!
 
No actual damage, but recently went shooting with some friends who don't really shoot and went over gun safety rules. About 10 minutes into our session, had a brain fart and muzzle swept all of them with my 22 rifle. I realized it and apologized, and said that's exactly what you should never do. Felt terrible about it, which I suppose is a good thing.
 
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I posted this in another thread here... probably shouldn't bring it up again but....

Got a call one weekend from a little lady I used to date and made plans to take her and her daughter to the range with my sons as the three of us had already made plans to do that weekend. In preparing and packing for our day at the range I grabbed some firearms that I thought she and her daughter may enjoy, the pocket .380 being one of my choices. I retrieved it from the drawer, dropped the magazine onto the bed, half racked the slide and saw that there was a round in it, then promptly flipped the safety off pointing it down at the bed and pulled the trigger to relieve the firing pin!
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No excuses... all I can do is hang my head in shame as I shake it in disbelief.
 
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