[The Grand Inquisitor]

I've been into shooting actively for a little less than two years, but I have 23 years of stupid things under my belt, but, thankfully, I only have one very stupid action while shooting.

The first time my buddy and I ever went shooting together (he and I basically got into shooting together and still feed off of eachother's purchases and knowledge) we only had his Barretta in .40 and when we got to the range (about an hour and a half from home) we realized neither of us had era protection. We were new to shooting and loaded up the mags and started shooting.

Well, it was very, very load, but we endured and were having a mostly good time. That is, until another shooter on the line broke out his M1 Garand.

At this point in my life, I actually have a Garand, and while I'm not dumb enough to test it again, it seemed to me that the Garand is the loudest F'ing gun ever without ear protection.

We were probably screaming at one another "talking" with one another on the way home and it wasn't until 2 days had passed did my hearing return to normal; I actually was very afraid that I had permentantly damaged my hearing. I remember talking with my now ex-girlfriend on the phone and it sounded like she was talking down a long tunnel and I could barely make anything out.


Come on....I know there are probably plenty of foolishness to go around here.....

[1911Ron]

Ok i'll bite, i shot a Delta Elite with out hearing protection :uhoh: got rid of it for some stupid reason :banghead: :cuss:

[jefnvk]

1911 w/o hearing protection. Took two shots to encourage me to find some :uhoh:

Of course, there is the years of hunting, too.

[itgoesboom]

Shot my CETME a few months ago without right ear protection. I was using the over ear muffs, and they wouldn't allow me to get a cheek weld, so I had to remove the right one.

My ear was ringing for a week.

I.G.B.

[Standing Wolf]

I shot bullseye pistol for years on indoor ranges with cheap ear muffs.

The moment I felt dumbest occurred after I adjusted the trigger on my first Contender. I closed the action, and the gun went "Bang!" The dirt puffed a few inches from my right foot.

[The Grand Inquisitor]

You would have had to change your screen name to Not-Standing Wolf....

[dukeofurl]

2 BOXES of 357 sig, no hearing protection.

[nipprdog]

2 BOXES of 357 sig, no hearing protection.
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

[UberPhLuBB]

Ouch, how can you guys think of going without ear protection? I shot a .22 rifle (22" barrel) without ear protection and just 15 or so rounds through that was enough to make my ears ring. I couldn't imagine anything louder, even a .22 pistol.

The stupidest thing I've ever done is cycle the action in my Ruger Mini-30 with live ammunition in my bedroom. :what: I was modifying some magazines which had poor feeding problems but I didn't have any snapcaps or dummies at that point. So I grabbed a box of live rounds, saying to myself "I'll just be careful." Nothing happened, but in retrospect, it was extremely stupid of me to do that. I was VIOLENTLY forcing the action too. If a round had popped out of the bolt and wedged itself in the reciever such that the extractor or something similar could smack the primer, I would have been hurting.

[dukeofurl]

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

Who's there?

[treeprof]

A two-fer many years ago: 1) Bought a Ruger .44 mag SBH for my 1st handgun and 2) shot nearly half a box of ammo w/out hearing protection. Couple of days of ringing, but followups w/doc showed no apparent lasting damage, luckily. I have double-plugged ever since. Who kows what I previously lost while hunting, tho.

Not as long ago two-fer: 1) Shot my pants while 2) I was in them. Fortunately, I missed me (especially Little Treeprof).

[ken w.]

I've done one really stupid thing and that was shoot my bathroom window out 3 days before christmas.I was shooting crows out my bathroom window all week when I was awoken by a bunch of crows in by back yard.So,I grabbed my Remington 580 .22 and put a shell in and as I closed the bolt,it went off.All I could think was OH CRAP what did I hit ? I looked all over the wall and then I spotted a little hole in the curtain.I pulled the curtain back and there was a quarter sized hole in my brand new thermopayne. :eek: A friend of mine owns a glass shop,so I took the window to him and he laughed at me because the closest place that makes these is in Butler,Pa.Thats about 200 miles away and there only open the next day because of the holiday.So,I drove all the way to Pa and back to replace my window.Just for being stupid.
The other thing I did was shoot a single action revolver .357 mag. without hearing protection twice.After the 2nd shot my ears were in pain and had a high pitch tone for a week.Live and learn.

[Stevie-Ray]

By far the stupidest thing I've yet done was to forget about the hair trigger on my T/C Contender. After loading a 300gr .45-70 into it, I was setting up the shot with my finger on the outside of the trigger guard as usual. Evidently it brushed against the trigger because it went bang. Actually .45-70s don't just go bang. It's more like a grenade going off in your hand. :uhoh: Took me 10 minutes to muster the courage to load another after checking weapon and hands/wrists out. Shot was about 10 inches out, too. :(

[PinnedAndRecessed]

I sold a National Match Colt in mint condition. That's the stupidest thing I've done with a firearm. Actually, that's the stupidist thing I've done. Period.

The second stupidist? I sold a mint Colt Diamondback 22, 6 inch barrel.

Third? I sold a highly modified Ruger Super Blackhawk, barrel cut to 5 1/2 inches.

(Anyway, you get the idea.)

[CRridermike]

Me and my brothers friends went shooting and forgot ear protection. it was ok for the .22s at first but when we broke out the 300 wetherby mag., AR-15, .30-30,.30-06, and bigger hand guns like the 44s and 45s we were in troble. on the way home the car stereo was all the way up and i couldent hear a damn thing! 2 or 3 days later at school i had to sit at the front of the class to barrley be able to hear the teacher (like i listen anyway). now i load the ear protection in the truck before the guns!

[QuarterBoreGunner]

Heh...just about the dumbest thing I ever did was out on the range demoing how a SIG220 functioned to a customer... went over the disassembly and administrative handling of it... loaded and inserted a magazine, dropped the slide...and..oops..forgot to rotate the takedown lever back up again.


That slide sailed at least four feet.

[Tharg]

on hearing protection - good friend of mine says i have the LOUDEST guns...

he shoots rifles/shotguns/and a 45lc single action revolver....

sometimes i have to agree w/ him....

he can't stand to fire my taurus tracker in .357 w/o protection (which he considers .... not manly)

hehe

My HK USPc 40 he thinks is loud too...

in fact he accuses me of buying loud guns! rofl

I've fired em all - the mini-14/usp/revolver w/o ear protection.... (personally figure the BG isn't gonna go ... ok ... i'll wait till ya got yer earplugs in....)

its funny - a LOT of it is... how is your head positioned.... i've done the USP w/o a care in the world (and couldn't hear right for 2 days...) and i've done it being VERY carefull to position my head so that the "sonic wave" or whatever.... wouldn't really get a hold of either ear...

I PREFER hearing protection - i've been known to use cig butts if thats all i've got... i prefer it cause.. well i can HEAR later on in the day. =) hehe

funny - the mini doesn't really bother me... even tho you can feel the wave 3ft away... rofl.

<shrug>

Stupidist thing.... hmmmmm same as the other thread long ago i guess... "guessing" at the sear break in a VERY pressed mood... whilst pointing the gun at myself... in a mirror... needless to say the federal hydrashok in .40 will go through a mirror ... 2 sheets of sheetrock and leave bits in the laundry room cabinets....

thankfully i was pointing it at the me in the mirror... and THAT my friends - made me promise to never get into that state again =)

J/Tharg!

[Smoke]

All right, I'll fess up.....I may have posted this before.

I was 10- or 12 years old. got my dad's .22 Revolver and started practicing my fast draw. I carefully removed all 6 rounds before doing so of course.

I was in my parents room where they had a full length mirror. After a dozen or so draws I started practicing cocking it during the draw. After a dozen or so times with that, it was time to go full circle....draw, cock, trigger.

Did that twice and on teh third time BOOM :what:

it was a nine shot revolver. :banghead: :barf:

Made a nice hole and spiderwebbed the whole mirror. :eek:

No one was injured ( at least not by the gun, now when my dad saw what happened....)

Cured my gun stupidity.....well for the most part.

Smoke

[Zach S]

I had a brainfart one day and caught a pistol heading to the floor. Put a hole in a fosgate 12" sub and a q-logic box.

Lack of hearing protection seems popular. I'll admit that I've done it, however never more than a few rounds. A .22lr rifle (shells loaded in a tubular magazine in the stock - I cant remember much else about it) is amazingly loud - especially when there's a house to your left, a bank [uh, embankment] to your right, and a bank in front of you... It was louder than my thompson which was used for pest control a while back with no dialtone for myself (or my 11yo sister), despite lack of hearing protection, nor any compalints from my neighbors that I know of. I had Mom call the sherriff's dept and fill them in so if a neighbor called they'd hopefully have an idea of what was going on if they came out. [they never did]

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[Kingson]

The dumbist thing that I have done with a firearm is I was shoting my Cobray m11 SMG and a cartrage got jamed inbetween the the barrel and the mag, so I had the gun pointed down range and got the jam out but for some reason my finger was holding the trigger down, so when it unjamed it just dumped the rest of the mag and I got a face full of hot brass because I was look down at the ejection port at the time. I felt real dumb. Good think I had glasses on.

[Okiecruffler]

Once I pulled the trigger on my 20 g to release the firing pin after a friend had borrowed it. Didn't check the chamber, he was the most anal safety nazi I knew. Have you ever seen what a 3 inch load of 4's from a 20 gauge will do to a hard wood floor from 2 inches? I have. :(

Was using the same gun to sneak up on some ducks on our pond. Came up over the dam, led the lead duck, pulled the tirgger and at the very same instant remembered that I had been stashing my ammo money in the end of the barrel. Looked like confetti in Times Square. :(

I ain't quite so dumb anymore. I hope...

[Onmilo]

I chambered a round into a Llama 9mm with my finger in the trigger guard and promptly shot the dishwasher.
Happened many years ago and man was the landlord pissed!
I had to buy a new dishwasher so I was too!

[Cowgunner]

I had put in my ear plug in a hurry, and got online line to fire my M-16A2......well one of them fell out and lost about 15% hearing in my left ear......

[Moparmike]

Taking my pistol into the gunshop and forgetting about my snap-caps being in the gun when chamber-checking it at the counter. The counter guy looked like :what: as he was catching it for a split second, then realized what it was. I had this sheepish look on my face "whoops, forgot about those..." :uhoh:

[sfhogman]

At the range, I managed to put 7 rounds of .40 S&W into the magazine for my 1911. (You've heard of 1911's? Generally they shoot .45ACP...) I pressed the trigger, the gun went Foomp! and ejected a really odd looking case. :what:
Immediately saw what I had done, packed up my kit bag and went home. Some days it pays to sit at home, motionless, and watch TV.

Jeff

[smokemaker]

Dumbest thing ever with a gun would be shooting a hole in my living room floor with a marlin .22. Still have the slug, with bits of carpeting stuck in it. To this day I don't know how a round got chambered in it, but it happened. Fortunately nobody got hurt. My only ND to date.
Dumbest thing with a gun and no hearing protection:
I took a long crack at a woodchuck with my Dan Wesson 709... sitting in the drivers seat of my pickup, shooting out the passenger side window... I got the chuck, and couldn't hear crap for about three days... except the Emergency Broadcast System test that wouldn't go away. :banghead:

[jsalcedo]

I shot a 6 foot long propane cylinder in a junk yard with steel core 7.62x39.

It was not empty.

Luckily all it did is let out a hellacious stench.

[BHPshooter]

I shot a 9mm 115-gr Winchester JHP through my bedroom door, through my brother's internal frame backpack, a box of aluminum arrows, and into a stud in the back of the closet.

When you're done dry-firing, it's imperative that you tell yourself "I am done dry-firing," and remember it.

*sigh*
Wes

[sm]

Pick one:

-Wrong gauge shotgun ammo for shotgun.
-Had the right gauge of shotgun ammo - wrong shotgun.
[NO I didn't shoot the guns with wrong ammo , this happened ( more than once I hate to admit) while attending a tourney, or hunting, I'm either consistant or persistant, ain't I ?]
-BHP mags will NOT fit a 1911 , I'm sure of this.
-An 870 Marine Magnum will NOT float - Nor will it assist the fella holding it any buoyancy.
-Perhaps slugs are not the best thing to shoot a greenhead with, then again the second greenhead felled with 00 buck didn't fair too well either.
-Magazines from a 1911 will NOT drop up. It does NO good to push harder on mag release to accomplish this either.
-There is a reason for stocks on a Model 10 , Fire one without them and the answer is obvious.
-FWIW a bolt handle from a 1100 or a 1911 magazine will NOT drop straight down in a body of water. They WILL manage to go the deepest part of a pond.
-DO NOT sit on the breech side of a Semi-Auto Shotgun Shooter in a Duck Blind .
-Do load gun as soon as legal to, exiting vehicle sight whilst hunting - Critters will appear.
-Do NOT unload gun until one has to be legal, upon arrival to vehicle - again Critters will appear.
-Only problem with shooting the lock off a gate in an emergency with a 12 ga slug...the lock won't work anymore...and bulls get real curious about what is over "there".


Like I said - pick one. :)

[JamisJockey]

Me:
I was about 20, and the local county or fish and game decided to ruin my favorite fishing spot by putting in a paved parking lot with handicap signs and everything. 12ga #8 shot at about 10 feet at one of the signs....all the shot came back with some pretty hefty force. Lots of little bruises on my face, hands, and neck...and a ruined pair of Oakley sunglasses that probably saved my eyes from damage.
:banghead:

My brother:
Jeff is known to smoke weed, drink, and do crazy reckless things. At about 18 years old he's partying with some friends, and they are taking pictures with this antique SxS 16ga shotgun that is over the mantle. Well, he's resting the muzzle on his foot and squeezes the trigger....and both barrels go off! The :cuss: ing thing was loaded! He lost most of his big toe....but at least the muzzle blast cauderized the wound so he didn't bleed too much....
:eek:

[Remington788]

Concerning hearing protection, shooting a .243 with a 16 inch barrel ten times without earplugs, talk about LOUD.

ND, deer hunting with .357. Take two shots at deer and then they run over hill, run after deer with cocked .357 and finger in trigger. Missed foot by six inches. :eek:

The dumbest thing I've seen though was the time my cousin was quail hunting and streched out his arms over his head holding onto the stock of the shotgun when it slipped from his hand and fell stright into the mud and stuck. LMAO. He had about ten to twelve inches of mud stuck in the barrel and all my uncle could say was "that's my boy" with this disgusted look on his face.

[olyAR73]

All Im going to say is; 16 ga. shells dont fit very snugly in 12, ga bbls. :D

[foghornl]

Couple of stunts I tried, after watching the "Saturday Afternoon Western Bock" on TeeVee....

The famous "Rifleman" 'twirl the lever-action rifle' to eject the last empty. Well, all I did was smack myself in the face with a Marlin 336. :eek:

The fake "hand over the revolver, butt first, then whip it around and snap off a shot"....Tried this with my .357 Blackhawk, forgot it was loaded with CCI 'rat shot' :o

Fixed the living room wall with a LARGE can of spackle, and a gallon of antique white semi-gloss. Trip to the glass shop to replace the mirror, too. :o :o :o

[Piney]

This discussion is very relevant to me at the moment. I bought a new .357 Tracker a couple weeks ago and had fired a box of .38’s in it, but yesterday decided to run a couple assorted boxes of max load .357’s through it. I don’t know if it’s the porting (6-1/2� barrel) or what, but this is the loudest .357 I ever shot. Even with earmuffs I couldn’t hear a thing out of my right ear and then last night the teeth on my right side were killing me. My wife seems to think it’s related to the gun. She was there and people were asking her what the hell is your husband shooting in that thing? Looks like I’m going to have to plug & muff from now on.

[bosshoff]

I bought my father a S & W .44 magnum #629 for bear protection while hunting moose in Alaska. I had it magnaported to reduce some of the recoil. The gun has a very crisp single action hair trigger. The first time I shot it, I was showing my older brother the gun. I was going to shoot an abandon wood duck box in our pond. (The shot was very much down hill, so no fear of a richochet.) I cocked the hammer, and was lowering the weapon to shoot, when BAM! Guess who had his finger in the trigger well? Guess who let a shot go over the horizon into the woods? Guess who still feels like an a**hole when he thinks about this today. I will never make that mistake again, and am extra careful with unfamiliar weapons.

[Black Majik]

The moment that pops the soonest in my head was the moment I was with Beetle Baily and Bam-Bam 31 here on THR. We went to The Angeles Range to fire off some ammo with the rifles and pistols.


First one, after the RO called cease fire I took off one of my plugs so I could hear better with everyone around. Well, when the range was hot, Bam bam shot a round off from his Kel-tec SU-16. Wow... THAT thing is quite loud for a .223! I jumped quite a bit but dunno if they noticed. :D

Second one was, on the same day, wearing Oakleys while shooting. They were the A-wire Oakleys, so they dont cover all that much of the face. On my VERY LAST magazine for the day (shooting my 1911) I was trying out some Blazer ammo, and with the 3rd or 4th shot a piece of gunpowder somehow slipped passed my sunglasses and into my eye!


Everytime I blinked I felt some sort of pressure and pain. I could feel it floating around in my eye. Even when I slept I felt that little piece of gunpowder floating around. That was one of the most painful 2 days until I went to an eyedoctor for him to take it out with COLD METAL TWEEZERS! :what:

So Moral of the Story? ALWAYS USE PROPER eye AND ear protection.

While it was still a safe and fun day, I learned my lesson.

I've written my experience with incident 2 here on THR, if you search you can read up on my experience in full detail.

[perry1963]

The dumbest thing I did was an ND when i was 11, playing around with my dad's Ruger single six 22 lr, no one was hurt, the dumbest thing i've seen is when working at Tuners another emp. was showing a Mossberg 590 to a customer and showed him how you could fit a 3 1/2 inch shell into a 3 inch chamber and should make sure of the ammo he buys for it, anyways the round got stuck and he couldn't get the action to cycle to eject it, so he decides to disasymble it to get the round out but he must have had his finger on the trigger and it went off, pointed at the floor thankfully, the shot bounced off the floor and hit another emp. in the leg, doctors removed 6 pellets from his leg no other injuries, another time a customer who bought a Makarov from us a few days before had come in because could not get it back together after disasymbleing it for cleaning, they come apart and go back together pretty much the same as the Walther PPK's do, the emp. who helped him also could not get it back together so he took it to me and i got it together, the customer wanted him to show him how it was done so took gun apart again and could not get it back, one more trip to me got it back and i said i'll be down there after i'am done with my customer to show him, he didn't wait and when trying to do it himself the slide slipped out of his hand, hit the glass gun case top spiderwebbing the glass, bounced off that and hit the front lens, the scope case door was open for a customer, of a Leupold MK 4 10 power, the one the army uses on there sniper rifle, retail of that scope at that time, 1995, was $999.99, after all the glass settled all he said was "oops".

[mfree]

Huh, thought I'd replied already, guess it was another thread :)

1. 8 years old, first shot I'd ever fired form a gun landed 2" from my foot as I'd put the rifle at rest... with my finger on the trigger. It slipped under it's own weight...

2. Got back from the range, standing in my entryway, open gun "rug" with my CZ in it on the dryer. Pick up bag without zipping it, CZ comes out, I stick my *bare* foot under it to break the fall. It worked... and I was darned lucky nothing else broke. Sure felt like it...

3. Dangling my Walther P22 from my pinky for a few seconds, by the ejection port.

4. Detail stripping the same Walther (stupid enough), over carpet, with no backstop for the 0.10" spring that flew out to land on. I found it behind the TV 3 hours later.

[Skunkabilly]

Ever see my rifle groups? :banghead:

[BarnsBeware]

Stupidest thing? Well how is spending $2500 on guitars the last year before Cali banned all the good stuff...? To this day, I am still kicking myself for not buying anything when I had the chance.

[Mastrogiacomo]

Stupid moments -- brought my 686 to the range, opened the chamber and loaded it:

1. Couldn't shut it so I forced it shut.
2. Forced it open and repeated the above.
3. After shutting it again, loaded it
4. Attempted to shoot and forced it open to remove the bullets.

Can you say dumb a##? :rolleyes:

[Pumpkinheaver]

The dumbest thing I have ever done was to get to close to the steel plates at my gun club. I was shooting steel plates with my kimber and after the third shot I felt something hit my crotch very hard. I immediatly knew what had happened, a ricochet had caught me in a very tender spot! It hurt so bad that I was afraid to look down there, I bet I stood there for 30-45 seconds praying to the good lord that all my "parts" where still intact. Well I survived with nothing more than a large black and blue and a bruised ego to show for it.

[meathammer]

I went hog hunting with my Redhawk .44 mag. With no earplugs! I normally don't use ear protection while hunting. It's usually for whitetails with a rifle. I'll tell ya, revolvers are god awful loud, even outdoors. I got a hog, and also a nice "eeeeeeeeeee" in my right ear for two days. :uhoh: Left ear was fine, don't know why. Lesson learned!


--meathammer

[Kevlarman]

You ever see my bulletproof vest demo?
:what:

[Beav]

Fondling my new Walther P99 as soon as I got it home and having the slide slam shut and pinch my palm at the base of the thumb. :what:
Even worse was trying to get my palm free with the other hand while not tugging too hard. Needless to say, I haven't done that one again. :D

[beardking]

Me:
Showed up at the range with CVA .50 sidelock black powder rifle and 777 pellets (they don't work in sidelocks), .22 rifle and .22 pistol but no .22 ammo. Only got to shoot my .40 that weekend. Great gun, but I was only at the range for about 1/2 and hour because I didn't buy much .40 ammo because I planned on shooting all the others.

My Brother:
Had an old loaded .410 hanging on a gun rack in his bedroom. He got miffed at my mom for something or other and stormed off into his room and slammed his door. Gun rack obviously wasn't attached well enough and the .410 hit the floor, butt first, sending shot straight through the ceiling. Luckily it was a one story and the framing for the roof stopped the shot before it put a bunch of holes in the roof.

[captain obvious]

Was out shooting in the West Virginia hills with a guy from NYC who had never touched, let alone fired, a gun before - one of his shots hit a rock (was a 7.62x39 HP) - a ricochet fragment hit me in the arm - thank God we were both wearing ears and eyes!

[CAS700850]

Bless me father, for I have sinned...

Several very long years ago, I was practicing speedloading my Smith revolver when the phone rang. Long distance GF. After talking with her for a while, I absentmindedly pick up revolver and colse the cylander without checking. Aim at the middle of my bed and pull the trigger. BANG!

Almost as dumb several years later, after returning from range trip. Pick up Glock from gun box, prepare to squeeze trigger for disassembly, when I realize I wasn't the last tro handle the gun. Rack the slide to see a single round eject and drop to the floor. Lucky for me I actually followed the rules that time...

[DRZinn]

M240G without hearing protection....
M16 as well.

[poesraven]

One of the DUMBEST things: BUT LESSON NEVER FORGOTTEN: My buddy and myself 12 yrs old cleaning 22 w/ the old tube under barrel loader- he took the plunger out and proceeded to clean the rifle, bolt out , plunger out/ after all done put the bolt in, put the tube plunger in pulled the bolt back w/ out looking reset and pulled the trigger.......BOOM, luckily for both of us it was pointing to the floor. We looked at each other :what: , Not sure how long but finally got our whits about us and ran to my grandfathers to get some putty to put in the floor b4 his parents came home, after making sure no more rounds any where. "from that day forward- I check a weapon not 1x, not 2x, but 3x's and also any parts where a live round could be lodged. Especially when handed a firearm that I'm un-familiar with. * Recently went into a LARGE local gun shop-they changed their procedures of allowing customers handling weapons - "they may have 4-5 sales people but only 1 weapon allowed out at any one time-on entire counter-Reason- they found a live round in a handgun when taking it out of the case- actually trying to see if police can pull prints of the round/some idiot, LESSON LEARNED! always assume weapon is loaded.........

[PaleRyder]

So far my stupidest moment is trading a Browning Hi Power Capitan for a S&W .357.

Dumb, dumb, dumb!

[Matt G]

At 15 years old, I was dry-firing an engraved Beretta .25 acp of my parents' that I had found in a cupboard. Being the curious type, I took it completely down to its most basic parts, and it took me a week to put it back together again. (all those little springs and pins!) Finally got it back together, and was dry-firing and thinking that I'd really like to actually shoot it. Loaded it, unloaded it... answered the phone, hung up. One last dry-fire at the corner of the kitchen cabinet, and BANG. I will have to tell you that there is probably nothing louder than a negligent discharge, even from a .25 (which are, BTW, surprisingly loud for their diminuitive size). I ran over to the cabinet, found that I had hit the corner of the trim precisely where it came together, and that the bullet had exited the face of the drawer and entered the frame of the cabinet. These were oak cabinets that had been curing next to the oven and stove for 11 years, so the bullet didn't manage to leave the frame. Good thing, too-- the electric oven with its cheap sheet metal walls was next in line. So what did this honest boy do? I made some putty out of flour and water, filled the holes, stained it dark with Olde English Scratch Remover/Polish, and didn't admit it to my mother for over a decade, after she'd moved. ;)

[Heavy Barrel]

15 yrs ago laid the 300WBY across the back of the front seat and out the passenger side rear window of my 75 Town&Country wagon.The muzzle was not outside. :rolleyes:

[crackshot]

one of my brothers co-workers shot himself in the foot with i dont know what. he carries daily though and it happened when he was getting out of his truck. not sure as to how it happened exactly or what type holster he had

[.cheese.]

I had a slamfire while testing a .22 rifle's ejector indoors that shot a .22 at my oven. Didn't go through fortunately. Just left a dent (thank G-d for crappy ammo - one of the few times I could say that). Since then, I only do such things outdoors (and I took the rifle apart completely since with the plans to fix it at some point in the future). I also slowly move the slide forward on my handguns now just in case when loading them indoors for home defense readiness. I possibly am too paranoid about slam-fires these days, but I figure I dodged a major disaster once.... so I don't want to push my luck.

The dumbest part about what I did is that while I didn't have my finger on the trigger, I should have had the gun pointed intentionally in a safe direction. It was coincidentally in a semi-safe direction (judging from the fact that nobody was hurt), but I disobeyed one of the fundamental safety rules to always have it intentionally in a safe direction, and that was dumb, dumb, dumb. Lesson learned, fortunately with no harm.

I classify what I had happen as an ND, as the gun didn't shoot itself. My releasing the spring-loaded bolt with the gun loaded in this case was as bad as pulling the trigger.

[Elza]

I was having trouble with the cartridge carrier on a Marlin .22 bolt action. I was working on it in the living room. I did not cam the bolt closed and to this day do not understand how it discharged. Needless to say it did! I couldn’t find where it hit. After a good bit of looking I discovered that it had gone through a hand embroidered clock that my Mother had made. It was her pride and joy. At this point I saw my life flash before my eyes! However it hit dead center of a spiral and was undetectable from the front. So I quickly patched the wall and hoped for the best. I was 16 at the time. My Mother discovered it after a trip to the dry cleaners years after I had left home. She had always blamed the cleaners for damaging it. She finally learned what happened 17 years later. Man, was she pissed!!!!

Momma has been gone for 19 years now. The clock is hanging on our living room wall. I often look at it and smile…………

[target1911]

Shot my Tarus revolver..3" ported brl without ears...only took one shot to learn THAT lesson...(on that gun) few days later shot smae gun (ported remember) from the hip....that lesson only took ONE shot to

shot friends 300 mag MUZ BRK without ears...yes once again, only once

[hounddog]

Almost empty 16lb propane tank with a lit candle next to it shot with a 357. Do not recommend repeating. My brother "watching" behind the suburban chanting bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad........

[Wheeler44]

My great Aunt was sweeping the kitchen floor. Uncles' M1 leaning in the corner, fully loaded, one in the chamber, safety off.Waiting for chicken house predator. Auntie looks for place to move rifle to, sees a nail hanging out of the wall. Hangs rifle on the nail, barrel down, by the trigger. Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Ping. She had to sweep floor again, he had to sleep with chickens.

[heypete]

My great Aunt was sweeping the kitchen floor. Uncles' M1 leaning in the corner, fully loaded, one in the chamber, safety off.Waiting for chicken house predator. Auntie looks for place to move rifle to, sees a nail hanging out of the wall. Hangs rifle on the nail, barrel down, by the trigger. Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Ping. She had to sweep floor again, he had to sleep with chickens.

That sounds exciting...:what:

Mine was dropping three 30-round magazines through an M4A1 on "AUTO"...with no hearing protection. It's not so bad when you're outdoors, but when everyone else is doing the same thing...yeah, you can't hear for a while. That's one of the reasons I later bought a silencer -- it gets hot in Arizona, and one sweats with earmuffs. Better to contain the noise from the shot, rather than muffle it on your head.

I ND'ed my 1919A4 once at the range, sending a round over the berm and into the forest beyond. That'll teach me to be careful when handling guns without trigger guards.

[cold dead hands]

Funny how stupid equals dangerous at the worst time. I decided the best time polish a hair trigger on my old H & R 929 (.22 LR) was cocked and loaded.

Three LAYERS of drywall, a lamp shade and a ricochet later I realized that I did one of the biggest F ups of my life. The worst part is "seeing" the holes long after the were fixed. No one but me knows where the holes are, but I will always see them.

[Jersey Devil]

When I was a kid I shot a Springfield Trapdoor 45-70 at a knot in a telephone pole. Knots are real hard! The bullet bounced back and hit me in the neck. Just a scratch but it scared the s**t out of me.

Next recent dumbest was I just loaded about 200 rds. of .38's. First shot went 'puff'. I forgot to engage the powder dispenser.

[tegemu]

When I stupidly but intentionaly (Not concentrating on what I was doing and thinking the gun was empty) fired a 1911 in my hobby/gun room. I still have a .45 cal hole in the wall and the front of my house but I have replaced my neighbor's $1360.00 air conditioner. Expensive stupidity and lesson. The scary part was that, if I had been pointing the gun in a slightly different angle, instead of the air conditioner, my bullet would have gone into their house with enough energy to kill.

[ScotZ]

When I was a child about 10 years old. My father was showing me how to prime and fire a flintlock muzzleloader that he had built. My father,Uncle and I went into the woods . Set everything up. Placed a target on a tree(yeah I know) and my father showed me everything and he was going to take the first shot, I was just to watch. Well he started talking to my uncle and forgot to take the ramrod out. He fired it dead center into a tree. Yes the ramrod went about 8 inched into the tree before it split. I thought my uncle was going to pee himself telling my father "yeah yeah thats the way to show the kid Bill". We got 40 years of laughing out of that one before my father passed away.

[TexasRifleman]

Your stupidest moment with a firearm?

The couple times I have sold one.

[TheArchDuke]

I was shooting my mosin M38 when I spotted one of those metal plates that people shoot with pistols. It was laying on the ground up against an embankment. I remember that my brother was able to shoot through a manhole cover with his mosin so I figured I'd give this a try. The only thing is, it was getting dark and I was getting ready to leave. "Well this will be my last shot."

Since it was dark I moved to within about 20 feet of the plate, took aim, and fired. Not only did the czech silver-tip bullet NOT penatrate, it exploded and sent flaming hot, glowing shards of metal in all directions for atleast 40-50 feet (well beyond me). Not one piece hit me. I am lucky. Oh yeah and it didn't even dent the plate. The red paint scratched off a bit but that was it.

[Fun2Shoot]

When I remember some of the stupid things that a few buddy's did involving guns when I was a teenager :banghead: I'm very glad to say that no one was hurt.

[Hokkmike]

Shooting a rock I thought was a groundhog. Well, it had the perfect shape and coloring!!!

[pcosmar]

I have the top of the list for stupid.
In 1980 I used a firearm in a crime. The safety was on, I had NO intention of harming anyone.
I was sentenced to 25 years. Served time, completed parole, still paying for it.
Very STUPID!!

[axeman_g]

discovering while carrying my s&w m19 .357 that while getting out of my car, I had somehow cocked the hammer!!!!!!!!!!!! Still dont know how, but it convinced me to get a holster with a hammer strap for that gun ASAP.

[Fun2Shoot]

I'm just glad that the few times that I was involved with foolish youthful friends with guns, there was no harm done.

[crowbuster77]

in the infinate wisdom of an 11 yr old who had only a few days ago been allowed to shoot the savage 755 autoloader 12ga for the first time i went and got a shell. cut it open and poured out the shot. now it's a dead round, right? retrieved shotgun to saftey of my room and chambered the 'dead' round. messed around aiming at various things. picked out the window facing the road of our then 1yr old house, pulled trigger and proceded to blow a huge hole in my window. of course it ejected the shell and when my mom came in i said it wasn't me, see no shell in gun. learned alot that day that i believe has made me alot more aware and safe. also learned how to sit very gingerly for a couple days after my dad got a hold of me. lesson learned.:what:

[silverking]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I'm still a little pi$$ed at myself but it got a few laughs from the guys and gals at the club. We were having a rather dull meeting with no new business to discuss when someone suggested we adjourn to our little range at the back of the property. After setting up the targets and doing all the checks in the background, we commenced to fire at the targets. there were four of us carrying our usual choices and a couple of the guys brought their rifles of various sizes. When I stepped to the line, I announced that I was going to rapid fire the 15 round mag. When finished and with no great results from the line, I realized and remembered that I had loaded the mag the previous day with my Hydra Shoks and not the practice rounds. Now I'm known as the guy who spends big bucks to throw at paper plates. Just plain dumb!:banghead: :banghead:

[230RN]

Wheeler44:

My great Aunt was sweeping the kitchen floor. Uncles' M1 leaning in the corner, fully loaded, one in the chamber, safety off.Waiting for chicken house predator. Auntie looks for place to move rifle to, sees a nail hanging out of the wall. Hangs rifle on the nail, barrel down, by the trigger. Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Ping. She had to sweep floor again, he had to sleep with chickens.

Jeeze. Bumpfiring with a nail. Now the BATF can call a nail a machine gun, like with the well-documented shoelace.

http://www.jpfo.org/shoestring.jpg

I wonder what she thought of the ejected clip pinging around the kitchen.

My stupidest thing? Ruined a desk with a .380 round. Make up your own story as to how come. They're all the same. Begin with "duh." End with "duh."

Next stupidest thing was selling a gun.

Come to think of it, that comprises the next twenty stupidest things.

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[VegasEgo]

I was cleaning my XD-9 V10 one night after shooting, after i got done cleaning it, I put the mag back in i used for the range, and didnt reliezed it as loaded, and pulled the trigger, missed my hand by about a mm i was bleeding from the wrist because the bullet skinned it. Thats the last time i have ever done anything stupid.

Someone else doing something stupid. I was shooting in the Desert one day with my friends. We kept hearing bullets go byand seeing little puffs of dirt all around us , we thought we were getting richochets, so we moved 3 different times. Same thing happening. Wat we didnt relize was some guy was shooting straight up in the air, because he wanted to see how far his ammo would travel and how long it would take for them to land, he gave up when none of his rounds were landing on his side of the mesa, and they were on our side...

[hounddog]

My brother ordered a 10/22 actuator to my address. When it came, the 10/22 was with him. So I hooked it up to the only semi auto I had at the time, a benelli 12 guage shot gun. It was raining, so I put on muffs and decided to try it while standing in the garage. Luckily the plug was in, because the third round just missed the garage door.

[Winter Borne]

I had just moved down to VA from NY city on 9/10/01! All of my guns were still in storage so after the attack I was feeling very vulerable. I went out and bought a M9 Beretta figuring that in an all out war there were plenty issued to service men so parts and ammo would be plentiful.

Well I took her to the range with some family here, (all average shooters, so with this group, I'm the expert< hahaha) We shot most of the day and went back to my uncles house for dinner and a cleaning session.

I cleaned and OILED the M9 and just before I holstered it, I decided to chamber a round. THANK GOD I had it pointed at the floor becouse my slippy hands hit the trigger just as it was chambering a round and I put a hollow point through my Aunt's kitchen tile floor. Very Loud indeed. The only thing hurt oter than the tile was my pride thankfully, but I have yet to fully live it down. Just thinking about it now gives me the shivers.

mk:banghead:

[Gun Geezer]

1. I was using a buddies reloads in a timed competition. As I was pounding falling plates at a furious rate of fire with the trusty 1911, I did not notice the squib. The bullets stacked up in the barrel with ill effect. Cost me $300 in total parts damage and the gun is still not right to this day. Buddy said, "Gee. Tuff luck, man". Lucky for him & I both that was the ONLY gun I had on me that day.

2. I rolled into a large parking lot at the hotel in Dallas. Lot was full of cars. I had my arms full. Without thinking (obviously) I laid my pistol (in its case) on top of the roof so I could lock the door. After checking in, I came back to the car 1/2 hour later to find the loaded pistol still perched on top of the car in its unlocked case. Now that is worse than just stupid. It made me sick to think what could have happened.

[230RN]

230RN's Rule Of Thumb # 732(a), Part B--

ROT 732(a), Part B: Never put anything on the roof of the car except wax.

After having lost briefcases, books, whole bags of groceries, extra sets of keys (twice), boxes of ammo, etc, etc., this Rule was put into effect on 17 Aug 1973.

For a while, I had a strip of masking tape up there to remind me (on an old "commuter" car). The reason was that during that time, I had to make a hard right turn out of my parking lot every day.

So of course, just last week as I hauled away from a parking spot, I heard my cane clattering along the street, trying like mad to catch up with me.

Duh. :banghead:

[sharkhunter2018]

Suprisingly, i havent done anything really stupid besides shoot my Garand regularly with out ear protection and take the hammer spring out of my Mossberg Plinkster. However, a friend of mine has thing for shooting ridiculously loud guns without ear protection. He shot several rounds from his Mosin M38 from his bathroom window, in his birthday suit while sitting on the Procelin God which is about 10 feet inside from the window without ear protection.

[Harry Paget Flashman]

It's not the ND inside a friends house with a Browning Hi-power. It's not firing a .45-70 into an engine block from 4" away and taking a ricochet to the head and having to go to the ER and explain to an unamused Sheriff how/why it happened.

It's far worse. I accepted a free RG-22 from my brother-in-law, kept and fired it for 2 years and then gave it away to someone else. Does it get any 'stupider'?

[Brian Williams]

While as a teen I shot many bricks of 22lr Winchester Wildcats without any ear protection.
I was ignorant.


I went to dry fire my S&W 13 and promptly put a hot handloaded 125grJHP thru my TV.

I was stupid.

[tmajors]

I was out chukar hunting one year. I was using a new autoloader for the first time on a hunting trip.

I stumbled on a covey of chukar as I was walking up a hill. Covey took off and I started shooting. I knocked down the first but after that missed them all as with each shot my muscle memory took over and I tried to pump an autoloader and I was paying more attention to the shotgun then the birds trying to figure out why the damned thing wasn't pumping properly.

[Rotty]

ok, Indoors, smallish room only like 10x15 or so with a angled ceiling, no ear protection, dry fire practice at david hasselhoff on tv...well it wasnt "dry"
:eek:

[Cesiumsponge]

Pretty mild for me, first time stripping down my 1911, rotated the barrel bushing to get at the spring and plug. Spring and plug went zipping across the room. :o

[HeXeD775]

Not a real firearm but could cause some damage...

I was 14 with a pellet gun, Mom was working 3rd shift & wasn't home, I was shooting at paper target in basement...the wooden backboard I was using had a metal edge of about 1/2" around the front. BB ricocheted back to me & smashed upper left incisor...Wow I freaked, missed the nerve/root by mms, i was not wearing eye protection. To this day i told her it happened the next morning, She would have killed me if she knew i was messing with that thing at night...I still have it but never, ever shot it indoors at boards since...now just use cardboard boxes with a dirt backstop.

[WarMachine]

Back when I was young, and had no concept of the physics/chemistry involved in firearms and their cartridges, I decided to brew up my own with a little concoction.

I took apart two .22 caliber rounds, and dumped most of the powder into the other one. Using a c-clamp, I pressed the bullet back into place on the now overfilled round and proceeded to load it up into my rifle.

Well, the round fired fine. However, in the process it blew out the magazine baseplate and the brass case wedged VERY firmly inside the chamber with much of the rim clogging up the face of the bolt.

kB'ed a .22? CHECK

[The Deer Hunter]

I left a paper towel bunched up in my shotgun barrel so solvent woulnd't run down it. I noticed it was hard to put the shell in the chamber but didn't think anything of it.

When I shot a big ploom of paper shreds went everywher. It took a little while to figure out what it was at first. I check my barrel everytime before I shoot now.

[Kim]

I was NEW to hunting at the age of 35. I just got a new shotgun of my own to go duck hunting. We had a blind out in a shallow pond. Me and two others decided to go back to the truck for something. I left my shotgun in the blind the others had theirs with them. Low and behold out of nowhere a game warden appeared. He checked our license and then he did something I had never heard of or seen. He checked to see if all shotguns were "plugged". After he left I turned to my friends and said " My new shotgun holds 7 way do yours only hold 3?". They all looked at me and laughed. Once I was told why they were laughing I said "I am glad I kept my mouth shut for once". They have not let me live that down YET!:o

[MT GUNNY]

.380,s will go through ( at an angle of 45 degrees) trailer house door , side window of a vehicle , hit a bolt head then frag in a equal and opposit direction
putting a dent in sheet metal , finally breaking into a bunch off little peices and leaving one hellava mess.

[Elza]

Has anyone considered how scary this thread really is? Many of the things talked about here are by seasoned, experienced, and knowledgeable gun people. What the hell goes on with the “ignorant masses” that haven’t a clue???!!! :what:

[busy_squirrel]

Stupidest thing?

ND through the floor and watertank in my brothers RV while we were inside it.:o

I was ill-informed about the direction of cylinder rotation on that revolver, and decided to learn for myself with a couple live rounds in the far side. It was supposed to go click-click-bang, and I was only gonna pull twice. It went click-bang.:eek:

I winced and my brothers jaw dropped open. I pointed out that noone was hurt, and immediately fixed his water tank. I tried to downplay that incident as much as possible.

Good thing:
It was aimed in a safe direction
My brother loves me anyways
I had supplies on hand to fix the tank


And because of it, my safety knowledge went up a bit, and my ego went down a bit. Sounds Win-Win!:uhoh:

[beretta9]

Had a 22 shell that was smaller than a short. Was wondering what it would do to a golf ball I had. Placed ball on ground in front of my feet, then shot down at it. The bullet bounced off the ball and hit me in the stomach. Took me a couple of minutes before I dared to see what damage it did. Luckily only a bruise.

Was carrying my 338 WM slung over my shoulder while out deer hunting by myself. While trying to get through a tangle of brush, the gun slid backward, making the stock point straight ahead. At the same time, a branch went into the trigger guard and pulled the trigger. That was the first and last time I went anywhere with the safety off.

[230RN]

Elza, post #92:

Has anyone considered how scary this thread really is? Many of the things talked about here are by seasoned, experienced, and knowledgeable gun people. What the hell goes on with the ignorant masses that haven't a clue???!!!

Dont forget the sample size. Most of these folks individually probably shoot more than most small city police departments, so things can happen. And don't forget the cumulative number of years involved.

For myself, been shooting for 60 years, uncounted multithousands of rounds, and had one negligent discharge, early on, relatively. (Killed an oak desk with no other damage.)

As I have said many times before, given all the billions and billions of rounds fired recreationally in this country every year, shooting seems to be about the safest sport there is.

--------
I repressed one dumb thing I did last week: In hurry. Limbered (as opposed to unlimbered) my .45, grabbed two mags out of the four I keep around, slammed one in the gun, pocketed the other, ran out the door.

Pranced and danced around town all day, with the secure feeling of my 1911 at my side.

Got home, UNlimbered gun, jacked out mag.

Was my mag full of dummy rounds.

Duh. (I've emptied out the dummies and put them somewhere else to avoid the reverse mixup.)

[sm]

Tip #1 :
Make sure the Daisy Red Ryder has BBs in it, when shooting an egg to demonstrate to kids safety lessons and all.

Tip #2:
Hit the egg at 7 yards, tends to work better than missing the egg. :o

I know folks find this to believe I can and do miss targets.
Probably surprises folks I have no problem admitting this either.

"OK kids, it helps to load the gun..."
"Kids, that is how to properly miss a target..."

:D

[JesseL]

Dove hunting with my A.H. Fox 12 gauge side-by-side for the first time. I was used to shooting my model 12s. I thought I had my finger resting on the trigger guard, turned out it was the front trigger. :eek:

Put a load of #7.5 into the dirt in front of me.

[skeeter1]

I don't know if I'd call it stupid, but when I was younger I started hunting with a 12-gauge double and no hearing protection. Not smart. Now I won't shoot anything (even a .22) without electronic hearing protectors. Oh, how I wish they had them years ago.

[skinnyguy]

Scary stupid stuff here.

I was about 14 at the time, my dad took myself, my older brother, and a 16 y/o cousin out plinking with our .22 rifles. Dad was sitting in the camper with a beer and us kids were out in the fields plinking at birds, jackrabbits, cans that other campers had tossed around, and just whatever. I forgot one of the 4 rules. Make sure of your target and what is beyond it. :banghead:

I was taking aim at a crow picking at something, and my Dad comes out of the camper about 50 yards away yelling something. I wave and him and he yells back, I go back to aiming. He keeps yelling, I turn around, and see him sprinting for all he's worth and waving his arms and yelling really bad words. I look back and see the crow flying off. Dad gets to me and gets to me grabs the rifle out of my hands and grabs me by the collar, still yelling. He takes me straight through a big sagebrush bush, and I see my cousin about 10 yards over walking over towards us. THEN he tells me what he's yelling about. Had I pulled that trigger, my cousin would most likely would have been my backstop.

I didn't see my rifle for 18 months, and during that time, I had to sit and watch any shooting going on while my Dad told me that I would be out there with them if he thought he could trust me.

Those 3 things combined really had an effect on me. Almost killing my cousin, missing out on all the shooting that was going on, and disappointing my Dad. Valuable lesson learned, and never repeated, though I was eventually forgiven by all involved, except myself.

[Full Clip]

At the age of 13, while foolishly "inspecting" my father's M-1 carbine, I loaded up a mag and racked a round. When I was done acting tough, I removed the mag and emptied all the rounds from it. But before putting everythig away, I pulled the trigger — putting a nice .30 hole in the hardwood floor of my bedroom. Nobody hurt, and nobody was home, thank God.

At the age of 39, I sold off an SVT-40 because I needed the cash. Now that was REALLY dumb...

[Guy B. Meredith]

I have racked up too many contenders for that honor to know which to choose. :o

[silverlance]

let a buddy borrow my sig p228 to shoot a police simunitions round he found on the ground at the range through it last year nov.

the gun went phbtt and got stuck solid. it is still quite stuck and hopefully one day I will be able to free it. :(

[G95]

i was shooting at my gun club everybody stopped to check their targets, returned to their benches and was getting ready to shoot and somehow i didn't think to check if everyone was ready to go hot and started blasting away, a few shots in i got a sinking feeling realizing what i had done:eek: , stopped shooting and turned expecting to see some angry shooters next to me but fortunately everybody was plugged up and said the were all ready anyway and didn't even notice but it still haunts me to this day that i was focusing too much on my target and not enough on safety :banghead:

[evan price]

I like t oset up empty 12-gauge hulls and shoot the primers out of them with a .22. I was shooting empty hulls in my back yard one Friday morning with my Savage 64 .22LR semiauto, which has a 4-9x32 Bushnell scope on it. An old friend dropped by unannounced, and I leaned the rifle against a tree by the driveway right out by the road. We talked ,we cracked open a few foamy pops, I threw some brats on the grille, he went home, I went to bed.
SUNDAYmorning I went out to the end of the driveway to get the Sunday paper and noticed that there was a black scoped rifle leaning against a tree, covered with dew. In plain sight of the road. D'oh.



Then there was the time I was at the public outdoor rifle range after a recent rainstorm shooting one of my FALs, pretty proud of the fact I had built it myself, nice IMBEL kit on an IMBEL Gear Logo Receiver. Looked quite the rifle if I do say so myself! And I was death on wheels to pop cans on the 100-yard backstop.

So this younger guy in the next stall over puts down his AK and we mutually call a target break. He sees my FAL and says, "Wow, is that a FAL? Did you build it?"

Proud of myself I say yes. He asks how hard they are to maintain or assemble- he's only done AKs. I demonstrate how easy it is to break open the action and field strip- see the bolt just slides in there? Helpfully I turn the open rifle over so he can see the inside of the receiver-

PLOP my bolt carrier and bolt fall out into the mud.



Finally, my neighbor has this big big mean St. Bernard dog that roams freely sometimes. His dog and my dog are not on speaking terms but my dog is on a chain. Luckily I have discovered their dog does not like loud noises. Usual thing is I see his dog saunter up my driveway heading towards my kennel, I grab the Mossberg 12-ga from the closet, step onto porch, put a round of cheap Win AA light target shot over its head, it leaves quickly.
That's what I did this time, but the shotgun kicked harder than normal...then I realized those loose shells from the box on the shelf I had reloaded with were my expensive 00 tactical buckshot and not more cheap light target loads.

[flynlr]

going hunting with my grand dad at age 12 and since I had been shooting clays recently . when I saw an orange thing moving about 200 yards away I opened fire on it.. with my pump 22


ummmm hunters wear orange.



ass warmed but the venison they got that day was mighty tasty .

[sansone]

had my new conceal permit, new colt mustang 380, real bad-ass... visited with some tree-hugger friends with my brother. after a while we started to horse-around a little (like brothers do) and my GUN slips out onto the couch:what: a girl screamed (yeah..SCREAMED!) I put the gun away, anounced I had a permit, and was asked to leave.:o ... immediately bought a better holster:banghead:

[helpless]

New CCW Permit. Not to skilled in the art of the public restroom with the firearm.
Used bathroom stall after a movie. Placed XD on the toilet paper roll housing thingy, and learned that it wasn't securely connected to the wall. Both my sidearm and the toilet paper housing fell to the ground for both guys in the joining stalls to see. Guy on the left says "oh Sh*t!" guy on the right pulled up his pants and hawled balls out of there.





:rolleyes:

[WeThePeople]

I'm going to share the stupidest thing I've ever seen done with a firearm. Another recruit in basic training lost his M-16 extractor retaining pin. He was afraid to tell the drill sergeant so he rolled up a piece of aluminum foil wrapper and used it instead. On the firing line, a small explosion spewed from the chamber and seriously burned his face (he was a lefty).

I'm not sure what happened to him but the subsequent blackhawk airlift was pretty cool.

[bensdad]

I almost shot my lab in the a## with a Stevens single-shot when I was about 12. I was pheasant hunting in a flooded area by a creek. The dog was right in front of me at the moment, and I tripped on my shoelace. It blew mud all over his back-side and legs, but he was not hurt.

Now I generally hunt with the safety on. :uhoh:

[Afy]

I dinged my heel in my right foot with a .22 LR that went off...

Another time when I was still young and stupid ended up playing russian roulette. Dont know how we all came out of it without being hurt. :what:

[ChefJeff1]

I sht a Model 19 .357 with no ear protection just to see how lous it really was. OUch!! When I got home my phone was tinging pretty close to me and my roommate says aren't you going to answer it and I said answer What?

[rero360]

hmmm......I've given this some thought and I would say the most stupidest thing I've done was going an entire combat patrol with my M2 being nonfunctional, I put a part back in wrong and the trigger wouldn't wouldn't engage the sear, oops, would have been in deep trouble in the SHTF.

also, I don't consider this my mistake but one day we cordoned off a building, suspected mortar tube, squad leader, terp and one team leader entered building without telling everyone, I saw movement in the room grabing for the tube and almost opened up on the room, had a hint of doubt so i grabbed binos and saw a helmet come into view, damn near s**t myself. I chewed them out big time for lack of commo.

launched about 6 MK19 rounds out about 100 meters instead of 10024 meters because i failed to accept the CROWS lase range and ballistic computation,

[Pitt762x54r]

Just last week I was sighting in the new scope on my Mosin Nagant M44. I wasn't keeping close track of how many rounds were loaded, and I dropped one round down and tried to cycle it into the chamber. When it didn't go in I just slammed it a few times really hard BEFORE checking the chamber only to find...

The tip of that FMJ putting dents into the primer of an already chambered round.


I don't want to know what would have happened if that had gone off.



Brian

[bdutton]

I have a couple:

#1) I have a habit of loading five rounds, shooting 4 and loading another mag of 5 during slowfire (bullseye). Also, I had been taught that I should hold in the trigger when releasing the slide on the first round. This is supposed to protect the trigger job. So habit had taken over and I shot 4 rounds, slapped another mag in the gun and proceeded to pull the trigger while my free hand started to grasp the slide... BOOM! Well... f%#! the trigger job now. I ain't doing that anymore. No harm done as gun was pointed down range and my hand was not yet touching the slide.

#2) Shooting some handloads and one was a squib. I didn't check the barrel and just rack the next round in behind it. BOOM! Bulged the barrel and locked up the slide. Did this 7 days before a big match and Monday was a holiday so one less day to get the gun fixed. But, fedex overnight got parts on Wednesday and delivered to my gunsmith on Thursday and newly fitted barrel and bushing was ready by Friday. Went to the match that Sunday and WON!

[Legionnaire]

Several, mostly minor ...

1. Shot a T/C Contender pistol in .35 Rem with a 15" barrel with muzzle break without hearing protection. I was hunting at the time, and aiming at a six-point buck. When I had sighted the gun in a couple weeks earlier, the guys at the range yelled, "[expletive deleted]!" when it went off, so I knew it was loud. I missed the buck, and my ears were ringing for a week. I bought a set of Peltor Tac-7s two days later.

2. After sighting in my Model Seven, a buddy next position over asked if I wanted to try his Beretta Storm. "Sure" said I. I set my Seven down, butt down on the bench and forend on my front rest, so the gun was leaning up at a 25 degree angle or so. Then proceeded to ping my first shot from the Storm off the barrel of the Seven. Stupid. Fortunately, no damage done except to my pride.

3. DIDN'T take a shot one day while hunting. I was in a location a couple hours from home, and didn't take a shot at any of the three doe that passed in front of me, waiting for a buck ... only to remember as the last doe disappeared (the last deer I saw that day) that the reason I had traveled two hours from home to come to this particular place was because I had an antlerless permit for that location!

4. If selling a gun is stupid, been there as well.

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Playing with a loaded Sig when i was 15. My dad didnt know about it. i Cycled the whole magazine through racking the slide. Geez, the things that could have gone wrong.