[FLA2760]

Hi
What was the worst experince you have had while packing? I am talking of blooper type things like when my S&W mod 60 slide out from my trouser cuff when the ankle holster gave up the ghost! The rig was a Desantis ankle holster and it looked FINE when I strapped it on. The little "buckle" for lack of a better word , that you feed the velcro fitted strap through, actually just broke in two! Anyway I was at a restaurant with the girlfriend, (now wife) yeah she actually did marry me after this, and the rig with the gun strapped in it was under the table! It was a rather dark place and the table clothes were of a decent length. All I know is that I was glad that there were cloth napkins. I subtly dropped my napkin over the gun and as I was about to retrieve my now napkin covered gun the waitress came to the table and asked "will you be having dessert this evening" ! Anyway the gun was quickly put Mexican style into my waistband. The now wife put the remains of the holster into her handbag. I got a new ankle rig for free. It was a good thing I was not running! lol .

[spiroxlii]

Well, I was reholstering my weapon once, and I shot myself in the leg...

Oh, wait... no. That was when I was having one of my Glock dreams. :)

Today was my first day carrying, so I haven't had any time for "bloopers" yet. I sincerely hope I don't have any bloopers in the future, either. Seems like a blooper with a carry weapon could easily go from "ha ha" to "uh oh."

[SHOOT1SAM]

I've had two bloopers in broad daylight, and one indoors.

The first was while running to make my telephone payment right at closing, and my Colt GM popped out of the holster at the small of my back and slid right towards a guy & a gal who were having a very intense conversation. Stunned, they stopped talking and just gawked. I spun around & picked it up, ran into the telephone company & dropped of the payment, and ran back to my car. They were still stunned & gawking!!

The second time, I was sitting in a nylon webbed chair outside at a restaraunt for lunch with an AMT Back-Up in my back pocket. I kept scrunching around to get comfortable and the webbing caused the pistol to work its way up & out of my pocket and clatter onto the concrete. As no one seemed to notice, I simply wiped my hands & mouth and got up & picked it up & returned it to my pocket as if nothing happened, then sat back down to finish my lunch. I did, however, sit very still for the remainder of lunch.

Then once inside Church, a guy I hadn't seen in a while shook my hand and placed his other hand on my hip, and right onto my pistol. After Church, I run into him at a restaraunt and he asks me "What was that I felt on your side?" I said "Oh, this" and opened the other side of my jacket and showed him my Leatherman in a holster. It never dawned on him that it was the wrong side!

Sam

[axeman_g]

Two....
Had a very friendly lady friend grab me around the waist one day... she actually had the class to ask..."Is that a gun in your pocket or ...."

Second was realizing that while driving in my truck I somehow cocked my S&W M19 while it was in the holster....realized while pulling my wallet out of back pocket and sort of felt the hammer pulled back with my forearm. Just about dirtied myself right there at the ATM machine. Nobody around... slipped it out, let the hammer down and reholstered. Went home and changed to the CZ. I made sure to never carry a revolver again in a holster without a retention strap the goes around the hammer.

[sandwich]

Other than having my pants fall down because I forgot to wear a belt, no.

[makarovnik]

I got two good ones. Once riding a skateboard I hit a rock that jammed a wheel. Needless to say the skateboard stopped and I kept going. I landed on the pavement and my pocket pistol flew out of my pocket and landed about ten feet away from me. I looked around and luckily nobody saw the pistol on the ground so I went and picked it up and walked away with my skateboard. It wasn't even scratched.

One day I was doing the Mexican carry and had to go to into a public restroom. Stood in front of the urinal, unzipped my fly. Pants loosened just enough and pistol slid down my waist and down the inside of my pant leg. I grabbed the bottom of my pant leg before it fell out. The fellow in the urinal next to me just looked out me like I was kind of weirdo but I had to hold my pant leg until he left. I told him I had a cramp.

[Okiecruffler]

Okay, here's my pair.
I used to carry a little Keltec P32 in the watch pocket of my jeans. One day as I was getting out of the car to go into a resturant somehow the seat belt caught it and sent it flying to the pavement. Then when I was reaching down to pick it up my foot pulled a Buster Keaton and I kicked the danged thing all the way across the parking lot.

Then there was the day I went to pick up my check at work with my 1911 in an IWB holster. I was walking out and right in front of the day surgery waiting area where a few dozen people were sitting, I sneezed. The button on my pants flew down the hall and my pants, with 1911 in tow, dropped to my knees. I think everyone was so busy laughing they didn't notice that I grabbed the gun to hike my pants back up with.

[flynlr]

I had my M&P 40 in my Smart carry one day while going to the quick_e_mart,
upon leaving the store my pistol started to make its way down my left leg,
needless to say I had missed the smart carry holster in the hurry to get out of the house and was actually just doing a Mexican carry. the worst part was to keep it from going down my pants I had a good hold of my crotch on the way back to my car with several folks looking at me oddly.
I have always made sure of the carry before leaving the house since.

[Cannonball888]

You should have gotten the DeSantis Die Hard instead of the 44

[Warren]

I'm already a wide load and adding those extra centimeters to my side don't help me go through doorways any easier. So far my only bloopers have been the solid THUNK of my gun hitting a door jamb or once a refrigderator in a customers home. Also sitting in wood chairs that have arms is a bit of a hassle. To the point where I'll ask a server if I can get a unarmed (HAH!) chair in a restaurant.

[jonboynumba1]

OK this wasn't me it was one of my best friends and I was with him at wally world. I stayed in sporting goods looking at guns and ammo and what-not. He proclaims a pitstop at the restroom warranted and goes off to take care of business. Five minutes later he comes back in a flurry of whispering something about the bathroom and accident and dropped on the floor and mopping. I was all agrin...I was for some reasoon sure he was trying to explain he had crapped himself or something as he was seriously destraught and couldn't even slow down enough for me to understand what he was saying other than we needed to leave NOW. So we walk back out to the car and get in and he explains...

Seems he REALLY had to go and needed a stall. The rear of wally bathroom was the nearest one so while noting the orange safety cone and mop bucket and open door to ladys room he went right past the thing and in to business. He heard behind him as he closed the stall door the guy wheeling the mop bucket into mens room and starting to mop. He leans over to drop seat and a Ruger P89 that was stashed in an inside coat pocket that he had duct taped up (he was very proud of this carry method even though I had assured him it probably wasn't the best choice) well...pocket and duct tape renforcement be danged if it didn't get free and bounce about twice and slideout of the stall and aprox. 5-7 feet across the tile floor after that. Enter sound of mop hitting floor and guy running out the door. Enter bud running up to me in sporting goods REALLY insistent that we leave right now-LOL

I teased him for months that we could never go back to that wally world as security probably had stills off the security camera posted for all the agents to memorize-LOL He got a decent IWB holster after that. No mop toting flunkies got injured in the making of this story. Names have been omitted or changed to protect the guilty!

[6_gunner]

I know a guy who actually shot himself in the leg while cleaning a 1911. I used to think that the old "I was cleaning my gun and it went off" thing was an urban legend, since any gun has to be unloaded to clean it properly. Obviously, I underestimated the power of stupidity.

[birdshot8's]

my partner and i had been sent to monahans, texas, to pick up a guy being held in the justice center on one of my warrants. the guy was a paper hanger so we were pretty relaxed with him and let him come in with us to eat when we stopped at restuarants, giving him the usual speech of if he ran he would be shot and if he survived that he would be charged with evading. all was well until in a whataburger in abilene my model 60 decided to quit my bianchi shoulder rig. we were in line with a couple of other customers as the revolver slid across the tile to stop right at my prisoners feet. my prisoner started to bend over to pick it up, i being out of position to reach the gun before he got to it dove across the gap shoving him away. my partner comes out of the restroom in time to see me pinning the prisoner, pulls his gun and starts warning the prisoner to stop resisting, using language, us cops learn in the movies. my partner cuffs the guy and i get my gun re-holstered and snapped this time. the cashier and customers had all taken cover and i doubt any knew what had occured. the prisoner is hustled out to the car, yelling at the top of his lungs he had not done anything. he told me after we got back on the road he had seen the gun fall and without thinking had reached to pick it up just as if i had dropped a pen. i'm guessing he was telling the truth, but sometimes it better to shoot first.

[silverking]

Having breakfast at my usual restaurant was when one of the waitresses discovered my ccw. I was at the end stool at the counter and carrying owb under my lined flannel shirt-jacket(usual winter get-up for me). She was coming from the tables to put in an order at the cook's window. She cut the corner a little tight and hit her forearm on the butt of the m&p40c which was extended out just a little because of my sitting on a stool. She looked a little shocked at first but because I am a regular customer, she was being kinda cool with her remark---"why you old fa*t, what was that hard thing I just ran into?" I replied, " you're right, sweetie, I am old and if you'll notice the smile on my face, that should explain it!";);)

[saltpepperPA]

The most embarassing thing that i had happen to me was I went through the entire day carrying and then I came home, was getting undressed, placed my gun on the table and my wife noticed.... It wasn't loaded.... blonde moment I guess.

[jwxspoon]

Throwing things away at the city dump I had my nylon mag carrier's strap break on my off side. It broke at the top so the mag carrier flipped upside down and deposited a loaded mag with a clatter at my feet. A few people looking at me strangely; I said "cheap issue crap" and picked it up and put it in my pocket.

jw

[usp9]

Dropped my Seecamp, or rather it fell out of my IWB holster, in a Lowes one day and I kicked it across the floor. If anyone noticed, I couldn't tell. Last day I used that piece of crap Uncle Mikes.

[kwelz]

Last year I was getting ready to go put out signs at polling locations on the night before elections. I needed a car charger for my iPhone and I was in a hurry. I got to the store just a few miunutes after they locked the doors.

The guy working was inside with his GF and I guess he took pity on me since he let unlocked the door to let me in. I went strait to teh shelf I needed and grabbed the charger. When I turned around both the guy working and his girlfriend were staring at me and had turned a bit pale.

The guy asked if I was a Cop. I said no and asked why he would this so. His reply was; your gun is showing.

Well I was carrying a G17 in a Horizonatal SoB holster. my jacket had rode up and was caught between the grip and my back so the gun was on display for all to see. I covered it up quickly and apologised to the guy. I don't think it would have been as big of a deal but I was in the store after closing and he probably was a bit worried since I was dressed pretty rough that night.

[the naked prophet]

Sat down in a pew at church, and my Browning Hi-Power made quite a loud metal-on-wood THUNK! Good thing the pastor knew already...

Also at church, a little boy ran up to me to give me a hug, but his forehead smacked into the same Hi-Power. He had quite a bruise. That was an interesting day.

Standing in line at Ted Drewe's (custard place, always very long, crowded lines) a lady squeezed past me but her purse strap caught under the grip of my holstered Hi-Power. She kept looking at me trying to figure out what had snagged her purse.

[rdrancher]

A few years ago I dropped my friend off at the salvage yard in a pretty shady part of town to pick up parts for his truck. I took off to run errands.

He finished before I got back and waited across the street from the yard sitting on the curb. A bum walked by on the sidewalk behind him pushing his shopping cart. The bum whispered as he walked by, "Hey did you drop something?" My friend turned around to see his snubbie, which had been in his back pocket, lying there in the dirt a couple of feet away.

He'd been sitting there for over fifteen minutes with people walking on the sidewalk behind him the whole time. LAPD had driven by a few times too.

:D Lucky, or what?

rd

[Eyesac]

I was trail riding (dirtbike) w/ some friends of mine (one of which didn't know I CCW) and turfed it pretty good. I stand up and dust myself off and see my G27 in the dust. I could barely see it as it was sitting in real loose dirt, and w/ all the lube the dust stuck to it. Pretty embarrassing, and I'm glad I actually saw it, or I'd never see that gun again.

[XDKingslayer]

How come nobody fesses up to dropping their gun in the toilet. We have one of these threads every other month and not one person has yet to fess up to dropping their piece in the crapper.

I KNOW someone here has done it.

[QUICK_DRAW_McGRAW]

nothing yet, other then the occsional thunk of it hitting a door jam or something in a store

[romma]

Nothing in nearly 5 years of carrying concealed. and you don't want to do that up here in CT...
If someone reports you, they will more than likely yank your permit even though there is no law against open carry... They just sort of make up charges.

[Joe Gunns]

To drift OT a bit: Never toileted a gun, but last spring my cell phone popped out of its belt clip by some strange fluke of nature and landed square in the john. (Fortunately this was before I'd used the john and was at home. Thought I'd killed it, but set it in a sunny spot and after two days it worked reliably again. The battery started acting up a couple of weeks later, but after that was replaced -no more problems.)

[W.E.G.]

Left my off-duty piece in the trunk of a DC police car.

Didn't realize it for several days.

Lucked out and it was still there when I caught up with that car several days after that.

[joesolo]

I carried a Kahr PM9 into a restaurant to eat. Had it in an Uncle Mike's holster kinda like thunderwear would hold a gun. I guess sitting down pushed the gun out of the holster enough that when I stood up to leave the gun fell out of the holster. I caught it under my shirt before it fell to the ground. I walked all the way out of the restaurant sort of half bent over holding the gun. I'm sure it looked like I had a problem of some sort.

[Big Boomer]

was at a restaurant and after eating got up and left, my spare mag snagged the side of the booth and sort of tossed me to the side, it's happened before, not big deal.

So I get home and "unload" only to find myself short one magazine and carrier...

Call up the restaurant manager did you find a black leather mag carrier in a booth?

Can you describe it sir? Well, it's black, metal, and has lots of bullets in it...:rolleyes:

OH! THAT mag carrier...got ya...ya we got it. Went to pick it up the next day, different manager there.

I walk in an ask for the manager he comes up and I tell him I called last night and you are holding a carrier for me, should be a note on it with my name. He goes to the back and rummages around, comes out and carrier is wrapped up in a piece of paper with a rubber band around it. Say are you so and so? I say yup and as he pulls off the paper his eyes get real big. I says, "thanks" take it from him and away we go. He never spoke a word.

[AndyC]

Nothing major but mildly embarrassing at the time - practising drawing from concealment (from a cheap clip-type IWB holster) and the whole holster came out with the draw, covering the pistol - to my friends' great enjoyment.

At least I learned at the range that those holsters suck, and not in the street. Never used one of those since ;)

[Conqueror]

I had to carry a silenced ruger around my girlfriend's apartment complex once and didn't have a bag or anything to put it in. The gun is like 14" long. I stuck it in my SOB waistband and had to walk to the car. I was walking like I had pooped in my pants, really awkward since the tip of the silencer was down on the back of my thigh. Bumped into like 5 people on the way to the car and they all stared at me.

[ProstheticConscience]

I tend to keep my S&W airweight clipped in the center front of my pants with this spring steel clip that screws on under the grips. It keeps the butt of the gun behind my belt buckle. I"ll slide it out of the way while going to the restroom. this worked for years until the clip started to loosen a bit. I dropped the thing into the toilet a few times before I finally ought a new clip. The second time I was "in the middle" if you will. Hell of a way to treat a friend.

[Halo is for Kids]

Pulled a loaded .380 kel-tec magazine out of my pocket with some change while paying for a candy bar. No one noticed but I had a oh s**t moment.

[spiroxlii]

I've never dropped my gun into a toilet or other liquid vessel, but I've done that with my cell phone. I usually keep my phone in my car's center console cup holder. One day, a passenger put a cup of apple juice in the cup holder then forgot to take it with her when she left the vehicle. The next day, I got in the car and dropped my phone into its usual place out of habit. I heard a plop and looked over just in time to see my phone go completely submerged.

[walking arsenal]

My XD has been dropped a couple of times.

Once we were at my inlaws and my wife went to retrieve my jacket.

I heard her grab hers then a muffled thump from the room followed by an oops.

I carry my gun in a fobus paddle holster and had slipped it off and folded it in my jacket.

She had dumped it on the floor.

[Guitargod1985]

How come nobody fesses up to dropping their gun in the toilet. We have one of these threads every other month and not one person has yet to fess up to dropping their piece in the crapper.

I KNOW someone here has done it.

Never dropped my gun IN the toilet, but I happed dropped my gun whilst dropping the kids off at the proverbial pool.

This was about two weeks after I purchased my Sig P232. I was at work and nature beckoned. So, I went into a stall and thought it better to take my gun (in the holster) off of my belt and set it on top of the toliet paper dispenser, which had a flat top. I thought this would be better than someone in the next stall potentially seeing my gun, since carrying or mere possesion in a vehicle was against our company's policy.

Well, a funny thing happened. Have you ever had one of those moments on the toilet where you have to hold on to somethig because you swear you are about to go into death throes? This was one of those moments. I must have eaten a Hot Pocket or too much dairy or bratwurst. Anyway, I instinctively swung my arm out to grab onto the toilet paper holder thingy and knocked my gun and holster off. Keep in mind that this is a new gun that I am not 100% comfortable with just yet, but has a round chambered. It dropped right on the hammer. Thank goodness for the firing pin block.

[esq_stu]

Glock 26 in a cheap IWB under my windbreaker. Pulled the starter cord to start a generator with a few friends standing around. One good yank and the motor did not start but I heard a thud on the ground behind me. Glock in holster plopped right on the ground behind me. NO MORE CHEAPO IWBs.

Glock 26 in shoulder holster under a bulky sweater in shopping center parking lot. Can't remember what I did but the gun came out of the holster, slid down my chest under my shirt and then hit the ground with a clatter. NO MORE CHEAP SHOULDER HOLSTERS.

Kahr PM9 in synagogue in quality IWB w/o thumb break under knit vest under suit jacket. Pinky mag extension catches on vest. Thunk! - my PM9 is now sitting on the carpeted floor in front of me. I quickly reach down and stick it in my arm pit but not before the men sitting on either side of me see it and laugh. One says matter of factly, "wardrobe malfunction?" I must have turned red as a beet. NO MORE HOLSTERS WITHOUT THUMB BREAK OR OTHER MEANS TO SECURE THE GUN.

[BFIBri]

The only thing that happen to me is..... I was at a busy computer store with my 4 year old daughter and out of nowhere she lifts up my shirt and asks very loudly, "Dad, are you carrying your gun". It was kinda funny after we left :)


Bri

[FM12]

Well, I've had a .38 snub come out of its ankle holster a couple of times, or the entire holster come off...once had a S&W M 39 bounce out of its unstrapped holster while I chased a drunk(forgot to snap back in after taking it out when a redneck threateded to shoot me and my partner). Once forgot I had put a snubbie in my waistband, and it slid thru my pants leg all the way out and onto the floor of the restaurant where I was en route to the men's room. I picked it up without missing a stride, and neither I nor anyone else said anything.

[biscuitninja]

Once while shopping a VERY pretty lady managed to spill the entire contents of her purse. I immediately bent over to help her, my H&K USPc came clattering out....:uhoh: She politely picked it up and handed it to me. I strapped it back into place quickly and finished helping her. She then, without missing a beat, asked me if I would like to get some coffee. What an awsome woman! I then found out she was a wolf in sheeps clothing also! I never noticed her purse was a carry purse!
All's well that ends well.
-bix

[Shawnee]

from USAToday...

Monday, January 21

Fargo, ND - Police reports say a Cass County deputy who accidentally fired his handgun in a courthouse restroom had hung the weapon by its trigger guard on a coat hook inside a stall. The reports say the gun caught on the hook and discharged into the ceiling when Sheriff's Detective Dean Wawers went to retrieve it. No one was hurt, and Wawers was not charged.

:rolleyes:


The real question is: Why wasn't he charged with negligence ?:confused:

[Eyesac]

I must have eaten a Hot Pocket HAHAHAHA!

[Hunter0924]

I was on the job one day helping out a contractor finish up for the weekend. I was in the same room with him putting up my tools.
He say "hey Hunter what is with the pistol?". I looked down and saw my shirt had rode up and then at him and said "it is for when I don't get paid."
We both had a laugh.

[chris in va]

There's actually a few other threads on the topic, but I'm too lazy to search for them.

Anyway, I had just started carrying my CZ 75 in a leather OWB open top. Went to pick up some ice cream off a lower shelf in the grocery store, thing slipped right out and skidded across the floor.

Fortunately nobody was in the aisle at the time, but sure did make a racket.

More recently I fired a round out of my Sig 220, holstered it...and three hours later discovered I hadn't decocked the sucker.

The real question is: Why wasn't he charged with negligence

Police are above the law.

[AZ-K9]

My S&W Ti Airweight fell out of it's holster (strapped to my ankle) at a credit union once. I discreetly put my foot over the gun, told my accomplice what happened and when the time was right picked it up and slipped it into my pocket.

I must have put it in the pouch incorrectly or something, it remained in the holster for a 10 mile drive and the walk into the credit union then popped right out.

As far as I know I am not being looked for.:)

[batmann]

As long as all are 'fessing up.
My wife and I were checking into a hotel in downdown town Indy and I bent over to pick up the key/card, which I had dropped, my .38 S&W came out of my inside coat pocket which was folded up in my arms (I thought) and at the feet of a lady with two kids.
I think she was so shocked, she couldn't speak and I was so embare-assed I couldn't!

[jad0110]

How come nobody fesses up to dropping their gun in the toilet. We have one of these threads every other month and not one person has yet to fess up to dropping their piece in the crapper.

I KNOW someone here has done it.

I recall reading a story, possibly on THR, about an LEO who set his piece on the toilet tank. When he finished his business he grasped at it but it slipped on the slick porcelan surface and headed for the drink. He instinctively grabbed at it, and was successful in catching the gun before it went splash. But he also grabbed the trigger and blew that pottie to pieces!

----

As for me, no bloopers yet. When I carry my 642 IWB, I use a cheap Uncle Mikes holster. You know, the ones with the plastic clip. Anyway, I'd read enough of other people's bloopers where the clip becomes brittle and snaps, so I now secure the holster with a safety pin to my pants. If the clip snaps, the gun and holster should stay in place.

[shep854]

Why no "toilet" stories? BECAUSE I JUST NOW FINISHED READING THE WHOLE THREAD!!!:neener:

I was using an El cheapo IWB. As I finished my business, my snub flopped out and into the bowl.:uhoh: Fortunately, I had already flushed.:rolleyes:

[swan hunter]

Back then, it was only a slap on the wrist if you got caught carrying...

Was in a waiting area of a business waiting to meet with someone and sat down and crossed my legs. I was carrying a .25 in an ankle holster...Yup, it decided to slide out and clanked on the floor. Fortunately I snatched it up before anyone noticed...:uhoh:

[jad0110]

Me:

When I carry my 642 IWB, I use a cheap Uncle Mikes holster. You know, the ones with the plastic clip. Anyway, I'd read enough of other people's bloopers where the clip becomes brittle and snaps, so I now secure the holster with a safety pin to my pants. If the clip snaps, the gun and holster should stay in place.

Ironically enough, guess what happened yesterday? Yup, I snagged the holster clip on an armrest and snapped it.

FYI, the safety pin did it's job!

[WVMountainBoy]

My worst was at the mall...had my 1911 in a IWB. I had a shirt that normally covered it fine. The girl I was shoping with/for asked for an item that was hung pretty high and with my height was easily accessable (I'm just under 6'5) I reached for it and my shirt rode up exposing my gun to the clerk (whom I didn't even know was watching) well we continued to shop...about 10 minutes later a plain clothes cop came up behind me and said "Nice gun, young man" I spun around with my hand going to the draw position on instinct (didn't actually get my hand on the gun before I saw his badge on his belt) but I scared him half to death as he didn't even get his hands moved before I had already relaxed. He asked for my CCW and gave me a bit of hassle and such then moved on.

[gggman]

The mrs. and I went to a concert about two months after 9/11, and the arena was really security concious, they had cops frisking everyone who entered the door. Needless to say, they had a surprise when they frisked me and found my pocketed 342pd. They held onto it until the show was over, and I had to go to the security office to pick it up.

[geophysicishooter]

After being sat at the 'bar' area of the coffee shop while carrying my .45 in the front of my pants, I stood up and the pistol dropped from the belt area and down the front of mt pants. I knew what was happening as soon as it started happening but it got down to my knees before I could stop it. I sat back down as soon as I could get my skinny but back int he barstool.

The barista kinda gave me this look, like, 'What is it in your plants that you're playing with?' as I was trying to pull it back up and get the thing situated.. kinda funny but in a coffee shop full of hippies and liberals, a .45 sliding across the floor would have been, um, uncomfortable to say the least.

[target1911]

This is a great thread. Some really funny things that have happened. Fortunately I cant add to the list.....YET

[jon_in_wv]

I wish I could say that. I sometimes carry a P32 in a Desantis pocket holster. One time I was at the movie with my wife and I was wearing some really loose khaki shorts. Shortly after the movie started I heard a clatter on the floor beneath me. I assumed it was my cell phone but then I realized I didn't have it with me! I quickly ducked under my seat to find my P32 when suddenly the whole group of kids behind us flipped their cellphones open for light and started looking too. I asked the kid behind be for his phone and I was able to quickly find my weapon before they figured out what it was. Whew. It was tense for a few seconds.

[Jaenak]

Well, after I calmed down enough to catch my breath from laughing, I've learned two things. First, don't buy an Uncle Mike holster. Second, don't buy a holster with a plastic clip. Third, always use a holster. And fourth, make sure that holster has a strap that goes over the gun to hold it into the holster.

Okay, maybe I can't count. That's more than two.

[shep854]

Actually, Uncle Mike's (now Butler Creek, I understand) makes pretty good inexpensive holsters. My favorite pocket holster is an Uncle Mike's

[stevereno1]

I was playing first base for the red sox in the world series while carrying colt detective, and a grounder passed right through My legs when I could have easily caught it. The damn thing dug into my side so bad!!! LOL!

[shadowalker]

I've been carrying quite a while, I am lucky enough to live in an open carry and open carry 20-80% of the time.

The only thing I've had happen is my magazine is pretty heavy so if I leave the belt open and forget to hold it it goes sliding off in the bathroom :).

[aaronrkelly]

Me and my son are at WalMart when he lets me know hes gotta pee. Sounded like a good idea to me too so off to the bathroom we go. Even if I didnt have to go there is no way in hell Im sending him by himself, he was 4.

We enter the restroom and take up camp in one of the stalls. There was plenty enough room for us both to "go at the same time" so I unholster my gun and set it where I usually set it - on the back of the toilet.

Well, he was busy unbuttoning his pants and must not have noticed.....nor does apparently think much of my aim.

Im just getting ready to "start my business" just at the same time he looks up from getting his pants undone.....and he yells as loud as he can.

STOP DAD, YOUR GOING TO PEE ON YOUR GUN

Yeah, thanks little man. We did our business and later I let him know

1 my aim is good enough that I dont pee on my gun

2 even if I did my gun is pee resistant

3 nobody needs to know about my gun but us

[1911 guy]

Both my bloopers involed my lack of vertical stability (I fell down) and wearing a handgun.

First time, I was bowling with my wife and three Y.O. son. He'd shove the ball with both hands, I'd give it a swat to make sure it made it down the lane. He get ahead of me and started the ball down the lane, I look a very long step to get caught up and give it the necessary additional push, and my foot went over the foul line onto the waxed lane. Very waxed, very slick. I remember looking at my airborn feet and thinking "this is gonna hurt". I landed squarely on my right side and a 1911. Very colorful bruise, very colorful language muttered so my kid didn't hear.

The second was just yesterday in a department store parking lot. I was already very tired and cranky, wanted to go home, shower and go to bed. Walking to my car, I slipped in unseen ice and landed squarely on my back. Saw a flash of light when my head hit the concrete, knocked the wind out of me. I spent a minute on my knees getting my breath back. Got home and noticed the baseplate of my magazine is smashed. A little harder, I would have been picking up catridges from the lot.

[RustyShackelford]

I put my duty .38spl Ruger GPNY in a kydex Blade-tech paddle holster set up for a cross draw(I sit in a marked patrol car for about 90% of my job). When I went to a gas station I bent down and my stainless Ruger GPNY tumbled out of the holster onto the concrete. :banghead: It was okay but got a few big scratches. I checked the plastic holster later and saw it was missing a screw on the holster frame. :uhoh:

D'oh!

Rusty S

REMINDER: Look over your carry/duty gear before you use it. A minor flaw or problem may cause you grief later on...

[Mat, not doormat]

Was when I was working at a gas station, very early in my carrying career. It was a very, very slow night, and one of my female co-workers comes in to chat. Not long after, we were still "chatting," in her car outside. Eventually, some customers pull in, so I jump out, and head back into the store. That set of customers heralded the beginning of a small rush. In the middle of it, the aforementioned co-worker decided she was going to head home. About half an hour later, she comes back in, hands me a Kel-Tec P-32 in an Uncle Mike's clip on IWB, she asked if I'd dropped anything. This was about 3 nanoseconds before I suffered a nervous breakdown over the fact that I hadn't even noticed that it was missing.

Lessons learned:
1. I don't think that clearly while "chatting," with pretty co-workers.
2. Uncle Mikes clipon holsters suck.
3. Carrying a gun so small that "you forget it's there," isn't all it's cracked up to be.

~~~Mat

[ab4ka]

My wife and I left the house one morning, and I had my Taurus PT145 in my Smartcarry, as I always do. Went to Midas to have some work done on my truck, was there a few minutes, then my in-laws picked us up and we went out to breakfast at a buffet. Made 3 trips thru the line (it was good and I was hungry). As we were leaving a gentleman stopped me and told me I was unzipped. I suppose the only thing that kept it from being totally obvious was the fact that I have the blue Smartcarry and I was wearing jeans. Either that, or anyone else was just scared to say anything :p

[riceboy72]

Embarrassing, but here goes. I learned from it, trust me.

Ten years ago, I stopped at a gas station just after 10 pm to fill up. At the time, I carried a Glock 19 in a fanny pack (I know, go ahead and laugh. I don't have it anymore) and was walking around my SUV checking tire pressure while the tank filled. Rear driver's side had a large rock wedged in it, so I bent over to dislodge it. Fanny pack got in the way, so I removed it and set it on the rear bumper thinking I'd grab it as soon as I was done.

For some reason that never happened.

Drove away, and about 20 minutes later while on the way to a restaurant, I reached for my fanny pack which contained my checkbook and realized it wasn't where I usually kept it. I pulled over, and still couldn't find it. Of course, it then clicked where I last saw it. :what: I cussed, and then had to make the phone call. :cuss:

I called the dispatch center and embarrassingly told my co-worker I needed to make a lost property report. She asked if it happened to be a fanny pack with a Glock in it and I told her it was. A good natured citizen stopped at a light in front of the gas station, looked down, and saw it laying in the street. She picked it up, took it home, and showed her husband who told her to call it in. Bear in mind, this is in Lakewood, Washington (those who frequently watch COPS will be familiar with it; those who live nearby will know it well, too) and the area was not known for its impressively low crime statistics. I was told that a Deputy had picked it up from the citizen and was going to call me in a few minutes after looking through it and finding my checkbook. I said I'd just meet him at the precinct and get it from him there.

I walked in, and found he had emptied out my fanny pack and taped every single thing in it to the white board in the turnout room with the words, "WAY TO GO!" in huge letters. I humbly collected my pistol, the magazine, 15 rounds, my checkbook, and a few dumb things, and headed out the door, but not before buying the Deputy breakfast for being a good sport about it. He still gives me a bad time every now and then.

I would've loved to have thanked the honest citizen for finding my property, but I never followed up on it. Never again would that fanny pack be worn. :banghead:

I learned the importance of carrying on my person, and I'm very much aware of how badly I messed up that night. Sheesh. Could've turned out much worse.

[RustyShackelford]

The last post reminds me of another recent incident with my trusty Ruger GPNY...

I picked up my friend from a cruise ship docked at the Port of Miami in sunny Miami FL. As we packed my car I put my plastic case with my loaded .38spl Ruger DA only GPNY on the roof. We were in a rush and my friend had a lot of camera gear to pack. We zoomed out of the parking lot and a cabbie started to yell at me. :uhoh: Thinking this guy was some nutbar I started to ignore him but the nice man was trying to alert me to my gun case on the roof! :eek: I jumped out and snatched the case. To leave a loaded .38spl revolver in a major US city is not a good thing....:rolleyes:

Rusty S

[techmike]

I'm not flaming anybody, we all make mistakes, but has anyone else noticed that most of these stories involve either not using a holster or using a cheap holster? Funny thread and some great stories but there is a lesson here.

[makarovnik]

I think the lesson is it's safer to carry your weapon in a holster but it's also sometimes inconvenient.

[PurplePeopleEater]

I once carried an unloaded gun without knowing it. Seriously, not even a mag in it!

[shep854]

PPE, on the other hand, you didn't have to worry about ND's!:what:

[FunYet]

This morning when my 16 year old daughter asked for lunch money I reached into my pocket and pulled out a handful of change, a bunch of wadded up bills (I should remember to use my wallet) and quite a few 9mm rounds that I must have tossed in my pocket when I was at the range yesterday. I sort of froze. She casually grabbed the bills and said "I hate carrying a lot of change".

[Drifter721]

During a very intense 2-day advanced fighting pistol course, while taking a break, I nearly dropped my Glock 22 into the deep blue/black water of the portable toilet. I caught it as it fell out of my holster, mid-air. The thought of having to fish that out, well.... I'm now very careful now about where I loosen my belt and I always carry a spare gun!

[Craft714]

I was getting into a patrol unit when my +2 magazine extinson brushed against the door frame, and all my ammo dumped into the parking lot. Got rid of the +2.:what:

[ScottD]

I dropped my G19 in the bathroom while downloading a bowl baby during my very first CCW class. Of all places...Gunsite Academy! :o

Didn't go in the toilet, thankfully. I had a cheap "slide" type kydex OWB on a floppy leather belt. The belt allowed the holster/gun to rotate away from my body enough to let the gun slide out as it had no retention. I bought that holster at J&G Sales in Prescott, Az at the last minute for the course and, needless to say, my holster education began right then and there. I have much better options these days. :cool:

[Guitargod1985]

el bumpo

[Doug Add]

More recently I fired a round out of my Sig 220, holstered it...and three hours later discovered I hadn't decocked the sucker.
Mine is very similar. When I have to enter places where carry is illegal I unload the P228, put the magazine in the empty slot of my two mag holder, and leave the unloaded pistol locked in the car. When I get back in the car I insert a magazine, chamber a round and decock before reholstering.

One evening I got home and discovered I forgot to decock upon leaving one such building early in the day, and had been working most of the day with the cocked P228 on my hip.

[pilatuspilot]

I have had a couple of "oops" moments.

One day I was headed out the door to go to work, I had already stuck my luggage in the truck (I travel for a living), but I had to run back into the house to accomplish one last chore before leaving. So before dropping trow, I removed the P228 from my holster and set it on the back of the tank. I finish my business about the time the phone rings so I leave the house while on the phone. It wasn't until several hours later when I got to the hotel that I realized that my VMII was empty. Fortunately, I had my M&P340 in my pocket. When I got home a few days later, the Sig was waiting patiently for me on the back of the john.

The other was just a couple of weeks back, I was getting to a hotel in Dallas after a long day. I checked in, went to my room on the eighth or ninth floor, set the AC to 50f (or whatever the coldest setting was, basically, the "on" position)took my jacket off, then decided to head back to the rental/beater to go out to dinner. I didn't feel like eating much so I just drove through a fast food place and headed back to the hotel to get some sleep before the early departure. I made it to the elevator, stepped in, punched my floor number and waited for the door to close. Just as the door was closing, a non-english speaking janitor jumped in and we started to go up. A few seconds later, I can see in the reflection on the door that he is giving me this weird look, I glance at him, nod and toss out the usual pleasantries but he said nothing and kept the this weird look on his face. I turned back to the door and immediately spotted my Beretta 92 holstered IWB on my right side. The elevator stopped on my floor and upon exiting, I nodded again and said good evening. I tried to act like it was completely normal. Though I wondered about it, the police never showed up. Since it got hot again, I have gotten back into the summer carry frame of mind. Now I only carry the 340 in my pocket.




Rob

[Floppy_D]

I picked up a charcoal smoker at a Home Depot the other day, and the guy helping me had to climb the ladder to get it down. I stepped up to help him, and as I did, my shirt popped up, revealing my P229 IWB. I was bearing the weight until he got further down the ladder, so I couldn't really cover it up. He got down and we put the smoker on a cart.

After an akward moment he said "Was that a Baby Eagle?" I said it was a Sig. He said "Oh, the hammer made it look like a Baby Eagle." I smiled and went on my way.

[herohog]

*sigh* Guilty as charged.

I had my concealed carry permit in Louisiana BEFORE "Shall Issue." Trust me, it was a big deal. I have an American Arms .22 mini revolver in my breast pocket and I had stopped to change a tire for a lady on the side of the highway. As I bend over, the damned thing clatters to the ground. I calmly put it back and carry on. She saw it and didn't say anything but I could tell she was scared witless. I felt BAD about that one. :(

Same basic time frame: I am wearing my Model 10 S&W in a vertical rig while driving some 300 miles across the state. We stop for gas, and as I exit the car, the Model 10 hits the ground. It had come unsnapped and I didn't know it. :eek:

Here lately: My wife and I are walking through Lowes and my wife is behind me. She starts tugging on the back of my leather vest and says "your vest is all puckered on one side." I blush and tell her "that's because the .380's in my inside vest pocket!" She responds "at least it's not visible through the arm-hole like the .45 is in the horizontal rig is with that vest!" :what:

[QUICK_DRAW_McGRAW]

had one last night. i went to my brothers-inlaws last night to hang out (we might we well be brothers) and i told him about my new kel-tec pf-9 i got that day.

i had just sold him my old smith .40 a few days back and he knew i had a .357 revolver i normally had on me. so he asks to see it.

so as i try to draw it uot of my front jean pocket from its pocket holster (mind you, first time i tried to draw since getting the pistol and holster) i pulled and nothing came out, because of my hand size in a fist and pistol combination it wouldn't come out. rather embarrassing, but nice to know. i now have gone through every pair of pants practicing drawing with snap caps inside for safety.

[MAURICE]

I am glad I'm not the only one who bangs my weapon against a door frame, chair arm, whatever.
Also glad to see that I am not the only one who has dropped a cell phone in a toilet.

john_in_wv
The same thing happened to a buddy of mine. A bunch of us went to the theater to see a flick and before the previews even came on his P3AT slid out of its pocket holster and hit the ground with a pretty distinct clatter. About 4 or 5 of us broke out into spontaneous laughter (just about all of us work in LE in some form or fashion, and all of us carry) while he slid down in his seat with a seriously embarrassed look on his face.

[Lonestar49]

...

Only once, at my range, I went into the head, and loosened my belt, and poof, the gun and holster (open-end, small, OWB holster) hit the "padded floor".. no scratches, no damage, but the DA/SA hammer-safety worked.. (lol-kinda) and no AD.

But it burned a memory deep in my mind, and it has never happened again.


Ls

[herohog]

I am glad I'm not the only one who bangs my weapon against a door frame, chair arm, whatever.
Also glad to see that I am not the only one who has dropped a cell phone in a toilet.
I haven't YET toileted a gun but I have drowned SEVERAL pagers. I'd pull up my pants and the damned things would fly off my belt right in the bowl. I now carry my cell phone in my pocket. Thank God I no longer carry a pager.

[rantingredneck]

I've dropped a gun while pulling up trou and caught it before it hit the floor (I know for safety's sake I probably should have just let it fall, but it was a reflex, and it was a DA/SA with manual safety)

One day last summer I was putting my pocket pistol (NAA Guardian .380) in my shorts pocket to leave the house and my pocket seam catastrophically failed sending my gun and pocket holster down my leg onto the floor. I'm glad that one happened at home and not in a store somewhere.

[hockeybum]

I'm sure that none of your guy's bloopers were as bad as this guys' :evil::neener:

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj18/monk911/glock40a.jpg

[herohog]

Where's the guy who shot his self in the thigh with his .45? He had pictures and everything! :p

[earplug]

Had a job hauling horses interstate, to include CA. Parked the rig and Eight horse trailer at a shopping center to water and hay, get some fast food and rest. While watering the horses I dropped a bucket in a horse stall, had to lean way over through a window to pick it up and my S&W 642 fell out into the stall. Going around and unloading horses to get into stall was not a option.
Had to hang upside down from the window and retrieve it. It would have been simple if it fell in the bucket of water.
Was lucky the horse was ok with the intrusion.

[hankdatank1362]

Other than the typical hug from lady-friend that quickly reveals you have a big iron on your hip...


I've dropped my 24/7 on my front porch, striker-side down, muzzle up. Twice.

Thank goodness no one was around.

First time, fumbling with keys, groceries, etc... had gun clutched in my armpit... I felt it slide out, and I dropped all the groceries and curled up with the cringe that you know you're about to get shot, and it's gonna hurt, I hope it doesn't kill me.

Well, the gun didn't go off, and I vowed never to do that again.

But, a couple months later, same situation, same result. I remember thinking, ans I cringed again that I almost deseved to shoot myself for being so stupid.

No longer tuck my gun in my armpit when carrying it back and forth from car to house. Now, it's a SIG in my waistband, in a good holster.

[The Wiry Irishman]

I was out rollerblading a few days back. There was really heavy wind and I was on a section of trail that cut through a wide-open field. A particularly strong gust pulled my shirt up and hey.... there's a 1911! It happened right as I was passing someone that was out running. Don't know if he noticed or not.

[The Lone Haranguer]

I spilled my reload (CZ PCR Compact spare magazine) on the floor of a restaurant once. Because the flooring where I was standing was wood, it made quite a clatter. I was using a pouch with a flap/snap retention and apparently (because I've not been able to duplicate the problem since) failed to fasten the snap properly. The pouch was also adjusted a little loosely for the mag. Had it remained upright there would have been no problem, but it fell out and hit the floor. I quickly scooped it up and put it in a pocket while trying to act naturally. No one seemed to notice. Fortunately the mag has good retention of the top round, or I would have had to chase a loose cartridge rolling across the floor.

Because open carry is legal here, the occasional "blooper" is unlikely to get you in trouble, but I would still rather not have any attention, good or bad.

[Wolfeye]

Last summer I went on a camping trip with a couple of liberal greenhorns. It rained, we set up the tents, and we all climbed in one tent to hang out. As I was contorting myself around to get the raingear off in the small confines of the tent my revolver slipped halfway out of my pocket, holster and all. They asked what it was and I spoke the truth. They knew I always carry while out on the trail, but for some reason they were surprised I was carrying on that trip. They made jokes about me being a sniper.

[shep854]

Once upon a time ('90-ish), as I went into work, I left the revolver I carried at that time in my car, but forgot about the speed strip. It fell out on the shop floor. The manager wrote me up for carrying live ammo at work, with notification that if it happened again, I would be fired. I was rather annoyed. A gun, OK, but just ammo... In retrospect, he didn't seem too happy either, but his hands were tied.

[XDKingslayer]

I wasn't carrying but I was headed to the range. I walked outside with my hands full and realized my keys to the truck were inside my pocket.

I had my XD and my Bersa (both unloaded) in a plastic case in one hand and a .50 cal ammo can full of ammo and my range bag in the other. I turned around and knelt down to set them down in the grass and the next thing I know it feels like someone put me in the washer on spin cycle.

My neighbor has an English bulldog that loves me. I think the attraction is due to the amount of hot dogs I feed him when he finds his way over to my house (you wouldn't think you could fit a whole pack of Ballparks into an English bulldog, but it turns out you can). He let him out to do his business and he saw me and came screaming across the street and plowed into my back and knocked me flat.

I got up to see him running back to his house with my XD in his mouth...

[herohog]

I got up to see him running back to his house with my XD in his mouth...
LMAO! :D

[Fedaykin]

This wasn't while "packing" I suppose but while walking through a field hunting critters a buddy of mine took a shot at a can which was in front of a tailgate. Hit the tailgate and hummed back within what had to be about 6 inches of my left ear. Needless to say it got the adrenaline pumping.

[GRIZ22]

From the way a lot of people talk I was thinking only LEOs had "bloopers" from the way their's are talked about.

[ExSoldier]

Man I got a hum-dinger.

About fifteen years ago, my wife got into this womens group that did a LOT of community service. Lots of Miami socialite action. They had a formal fund raiser that was held IIRC inside one of the biggest law firms in the city. Penthouse stuff. Think "The Devil's Advocate" type of law firm. There was a silent auction and dinner and all of the city brass was there: Chief of Police, Mayor, City Council, rich folks VERY rich folks and us. A pair of school teachers who happen to have HAD parents that went waaaaaaay back in this town.

The building was downtown and it had a huge parking garage that was always very dark. There'd been lots of muggings there so they got a bunch of rent a cops and updated the technology in cameras and other snoop type devices.

Typically me, I don't trust these things. The event is black tie. I've got a Tux from the days I used to be a Freemason. I was wearing a Yaqui style open top and bottom holster with a Colt Officer's model cocked and locked. Also a spare mag OWB but under the cummerbund and under the coat, of course.

The setting was totally luxurious. Especially the hardwood floors. Remember those. So the auction went extremely well and so did the "meet and greet," where I wisely kept my conservatism to myself, Miami politics being overwhelmingly liberal democrat. A few folks asked how I spent my time away from the classroom and I replied that I ummmm TUTORED adults. They loved that.

So time came for dinner in the enormous conference room. Here's where it gets tricky. I had been doing fine concealment wise. Course I was thinner then by about 50 pounds but nobody had MADE me. Yet. I followed my bride thru the serving line and went to sit down. As I settled into that plush over stuffed executive type chair with the plush ARM RESTS I never even felt it when the muzzle of my Colt gently made contact with the armrest and began to ease itself upward as I sat. KER-PLUNK!!! That pistol hitting those hardwood floors sounded like a boulder rolling thru a church. Everybody FROZE and just stared. EVERYBODY. Chief of Police, Mayor, you name it. My wife was white as a sheet. I calmly leaned over and scooped up my baby from the floor. Checked for scratches (on the gun not the floor) and re-holstered and went about eating my Surf & Turf (Lobster & Steak). The crowd took the cue from me. But DANG I was embarrassed! I think they must have thought I was a cop or something.

Shortly thereafter, my wife developed a bad migraine. So we stood to leave. Dang if thirty folks didn't stand to go too! 15 couples. It was no coincidence. My poor wife had to hang out in the security office while I walked folks to their vehicles. See, the rent-a-cops were unarmed.

Thank goodness I had a good amount of my business cards identifying me as an NRA certified Firearms Instructor for which I can certify folks for the FL ccw. It only took a few sharp digs from a wife's elbow to convince a few hubby's that taking my class was a good idea. I handed out ALL the cards I had on me that night.

About 90 min after we left the party I recovered my very irate and in pain wife and went home. I had to give a long back rub for her to forgive me. It's always worth it.

One thing is certain: I never went near another yaqui slide holster. I still wear open top holsters but nothing that exposes the muzzle or any length of slide like that style does. Yeah I got a lot of business out of the faux pas (French for screw up) but I'd just as soon have avoided the whole incident.

[ExSoldier]

Once I was wearing a Banana Republic vest as a cover garment. I know it's the "uniform" of the ccw! Anyway, I was at the movies with my wife (in Florida that's legal) and I got up to get some popcorn and I turned too quickly. I was carrying a spare magazine in the pocket and the pocket flared out just enough to soundly CRACK the guy seated in front of me with that loaded mag. He swore and looked at me. I apologized profusely for my cell phone. I think he must have thought that my cell phone was one of those old motorola jobs that you could hammer nails with. Oops.

[woolfam]

Told this story once before. Not really a blooper, but could have been.

My son, my Taurus, and I were at a local department store. We were in the shoe department. There was one other customer and a saleswoman at the cash register.

As I was looking at some shoes I heard someone behind me and to my left say in a somewhat loud voice, “Do you have a gun?”

It startled me but I did not react. I was thinking, how in the world did he know? I slowly turned around to my left and saw a store employee (suit and tie and store badge) walking into the department.

I did not say anything, figuring that it would be best for him to continue the conversation. He walked right past me and up to the saleswoman at the cash register. He there retrieved “the gun” - one of those pistol-looking scanners they use to check price tags – and walked off to another department.

My son later told me that when he heard the man ask the question he thought, “Oh great, what’s my dad done now?”

[shep854]

ExSoldier, training shows. You improvised and overcome in a desperate situation. Congratulatons!

Despite the embarrassment, your faux pas may have done the 2A and CCW more good than anything anyone could have planned. You sure could not have "reasoned" with that bunch otherwise.

[lance22]

I wear a sport jacket / suit coat most days, and every now and then the back of my coat gets caught behind the stock of my pistol. So, the back of my jacket is up at my waist with a pistol stock protruding :o

One such occoasion had me at the grocery story and a pretty lady asked if I could reach an item on the top shelf for her - not just top shelf but WAY to the back of the top shelf. Had to stretch on my tippy toes to get the item and when I handed it to her she smiled and said "boom". I simply smiled back. It took me a few minutes to realize that my sport coat pivoted away from my body and the whole time she had a full view of my Kahr P40 carried IWB in a BearClaw holster.

Nuthin' like exSoldier's story ... LOL that was a good one.

[Pilot]

I was in the parking lot of a supermarket/strip center getting something off the roof of my Jeep and had to stretch. My sweater rose up and uncovered my CZ-75D in the tan Bianchi OWB holster. I locked eyes with a girl in her late teens about 20 yards or so away. She just gave me a little smile and I quickly dropped my arms and covered the holster again. Other than that nobody has ever seen my CCW.

[Pilot]

They made jokes about me being a sniper.

How typical. :rolleyes:

[shep854]

ExSoldier's story (and my own gun in the loo) explain why I am a strong believer in thumb straps.

[USMCDK]

I wear a sport jacket / suit coat most days, and every now and then the back of my coat gets caught behind the stock of my pistol. So, the back of my jacket is up at my waist with a pistol stock protruding

One such occoasion had me at the grocery story and a pretty lady asked if I could reach an item on the top shelf for her - not just top shelf but WAY to the back of the top shelf. Had to stretch on my tippy toes to get the item and when I handed it to her she smiled and said "boom". I simply smiled back. It took me a few minutes to realize that my sport coat pivoted away from my body and the whole time she had a full view of my Kahr P40 carried IWB in a BearClaw holster.

Nuthin' like exSoldier's story ... LOL that was a good one.

At least she was comical to you about it. she could have been a super anti and gave you $#!t or worse whe could have freaked out and caused a seen or let make the wound deeper and called the cops and had you explaining your self for about the next 5-45min of your life

[The Lone Haranguer]

My neighbor has an English bulldog that loves me. I think the attraction is due to the amount of hot dogs I feed him when he finds his way over to my house ...
For enough hot dogs, I would be your friend too. :)

[Darthbauer]

Sliding out of a jeep wrangler wearing a blackhawk drop leg the grip hit the seat and I kept sliding. Gun fell hit the ground and broke. Until I had a smith look at it, it FTF everytime.

[evan price]

True story from about six months ago or so.

Great story: I raise my kids around guns, tell them what they are, don't let them play with toy ones but instead when they are a little bigger we all will go shooting.

Anyway we were all out somewhere, I don't remember where, some store, I had my 4-year-old daughter and was holding her hand, we were waiting to go into somewhere in a line, I think we were waiting to check out at some big store, standing by the wall by the line were two sheriff's deputies in uniform under arms.
My little girl is staring at them, and says, "Daddy, look at the police men."
I said, "Yes, dear."
The line moves up so we are standing a couple feet away. The deputies are sort of hanging out as security probably and sort of zoned out with the hundred-meter stare (boring job duty.. watch a line).
My adorable little 4-year-old suddenly says "Hello," to the deputies. They smile, one of them kind of leans down and says, "Why Hello, precious. What's your name?"
She says her name, kind of gives that shy half twist thing little girls do, then says, "Um, my daddy's gun looks just like that!" and takes her cute little hand and slides my Tee-shirt up exposing my Sig P220....

<d'oh>

After calmly and quickly informing I had a CHL... etc... and the deputies' hearts restarted... all was fine.

I took my daughter aside and had a little chat about how daddy's gun was a "family secret" and nobody else is supposed to know about it...

[USMCDK]

"Um, my daddy's gun looks just like that!" and takes her cute little hand and slides my Tee-shirt up exposing my Sig P220....

<d'oh>

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ROFLMAO!!!

God I think I would have just shot myself then and there. I am glad that in my state you can carry without concealing and cops really don't do anything except stare at you, for safety reasons, until you deside to do something stupid or get the hell outta dodge, slowly and, peacefully mind you.

BTW I CCW for the sake of not causing a riot or panic of the community.

[USMCDK]

Then once inside Church, a guy I hadn't seen in a while shook my hand and placed his other hand on my hip, and right onto my pistol. After Church, I run into him at a restaraunt and he asks me "What was that I felt on your side?" I said "Oh, this" and opened the other side of my jacket and showed him my Leatherman in a holster. It never dawned on him that it was the wrong side!

Sam


Shame on you for two reason... One for carrying in your church and twoo for Lying to a fellow church member.

NAH I AM JUST JOSHING YOU I could really care less to both matters, I probably would have carried to church but not lied to my fellow church member. but that's just MHO!!!

[USMCDK]

Nothing in nearly 5 years of carrying concealed. and you don't want to do that up here in CT...
If someone reports you, they will more than likely yank your permit even though there is no law against open carry... They just sort of make up charges.

If they ever did that to me and I was legally CCW I would press charges on the city and or the state for harrassment and unfair practice of the law. :cuss:

[USMCDK]

Once while shopping a VERY pretty lady managed to spill the entire contents of her purse. I immediately bent over to help her, my H&K USPc came clattering out.... She politely picked it up and handed it to me. I strapped it back into place quickly and finished helping her. She then, without missing a beat, asked me if I would like to get some coffee. What an awsome woman! I then found out she was a wolf in sheeps clothing also! I never noticed her purse was a carry purse!
All's well that ends well.

All I have to say is Bow-chika-wow-wow

[USMCDK]

Okay so enough with me beign the HAHAHA point my finger at you guy and now to be the guilty one.

I was about 6-8month back.

The wife and I were living at the rents house and it was policy to unload and safe weapons before going in, even though the old man has his own collection of Firearms, it was still policy just the same. It had been a long day at work and on top of that I was getting phone calls from drunk friends to be a DD. Gladly I get into my car, pistol and all, and go do the good deed. I finally finish up my community service and arrive back home at 2:27am. Tired and kinda outta it, due to fatigue NOT DRINKING (remember DD), I go inside:banghead: (should have stayed outside, but damnit I just wanted in) to unload my pistol, military style. Needless to say I forgot, like a moron, to drop the mag. I rack the slide back, visually check chamber is empty, and then I let it go home into battery. Next step is to take the weapon off safe and pull trigger to ensure the weapon is unloaded. BANG!!!! I fire off a round in the house mind you.

Side note: My parents live in a duplex and the landlord lives right on the other side of the wall from them.

The spent round goes through said wall at a downward angle, thank god, into the kitchen of the landlord's side of the house. Small .45 hole my parents side, large 6in hole landlord side.

Odd thing is no one woke up to the gun shot, but damnit my wife and parents woke up to me freaking out like someone had just shot me. The ordeal tramatized me so bad that I was crying my eyes out like a 5y/o. We had called the landlord to make sure no one was hurt.

Second Side note: My late landlord had her son living with her at this time cause her husband had died when I was 8y/o. Her son is usually up at that hour and roaming in the kitchen, mind you, for a mid-night snack. Thank the lord that wasn't the case this night.

To our relief no one was hurt in the incident, but I did learn one really valueable lesson from said incident.

NEVER UNLOAD YOUR WEAPONR INDOORS > ALWAYS DO IT OUT SIDE!!!

Please don't feel ill of me my bretheren. But I just had to tell this one, after the gawking that I have been doing.

Has anyone else had a ND???

Sincerely and embarassingly,

USMCDK

[Guitargod1985]

Has anyone else had a ND???


Yeah, I've had one. It was about 9 months ago. I seem to recall a poll where more nearly half of THRers admitted to having had a ND at one time or another.

Here's a link to the thread about mine:
MY ND (http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=297815&highlight=negligent+discharge).

[Rokyudai]

Thanks for sharing USMCDK. That is quite a scary experience you described. Lessons learned all around.

[USMCDK]

Rokyudai I couldn't have said that better. I was scary as hell, because I went from dead tired to wide the :cuss: awake and the only thing I could think was "**** I just shot a bullet through my house (FMJ Mind you and is now why I have glazer safety and JHP HST-1) and into my landlord's. **** I hope to god I didn't shoot and kill anyone, that's when the freaking out and crying came into play. I told my father to lock my pistol up and not let me have it till he could see that I was confident again. That lasted about a month and then to the range we went to start over with the basics, like a good soldier should do.

Hell I am in tears right now about it cause it scares me that much to know a well trained Marine/Soldier could do such a stupid thing, knowing better for that matter. It will never happen again by these hands EVER!!!!

you guys are welcome for me sharing that experience I just hope that the other ND's weren't as bad if not worse than mine. I hope that I am the worst case senario.

You know my story brings back to mind a true story that happened out in Iraq when I was there and present for it as a matter of fact.

My OIC (Officer in Change) 1st Lt XXXX (for the sake of keeping his credit) was coming back into our quatering compound. I was on an MP detail at that time and at the main gate.

It was policy for us to Clear our weapons before coming back into said compound, exactly the way I SHOULD have done my firearm. (while always pointing weapon down and away from people) Drop Mag, Lock bolt to rear, Check chamber (EMPTY), send bolt to battery, point weapon into 55gal drum (with sand only), take weapon off SAFE, pull trigger. Hopefully no BANG right.

Well Lt. X didn't drop mag. did everything else right until BANG. However the funny thing is he did it again. racked her back sent her home (without dropping mag) and BANG again.

I reach over at this moment (standing next to him not in front mind you) told him "Sir please give me you firearm sir!?" took it from him politely and pulled out said mag and cleared weapom properly. then handed it back to him (weapon on safe slide to the rear LOCKED, weapon pointed down, grip side towards OIC) including two unspent rounds and two spent cartridges.

Let me tell you that put some of us on edge, especially, about following that man into any type of combat senario. Yet we all had a real big laugh about it afterwards.

Anyways so come on guys give us you ND bloopers/incidents.

USMCDK

[Kind of Blued]

To our relief no one was hurt in the incident, but I did learn one really valueable lesson from said incident.

NEVER UNLOAD YOUR WEAPONR INDOORS > ALWAYS DO IT OUT SIDE!!!

With all due respect (which is plenty, because I'm sure I'll have a ND some day), I think that the lesson learned should have been not to do this :):

Next step is to take the weapon off safe and pull trigger to ensure the weapon is unloaded.

The trigger is to make the gun go bang, not a safety device to assure an unloaded gun!

Just thought I would mention it. If you had done this outside, it only could have turned out worse (seeing as how nobody was hurt).

I appreciate your service to our country by the way. Your account of going "back to the basics" on the safety issues is admirable as well.

[TimboKhan]

NEVER UNLOAD YOUR WEAPONR INDOORS > ALWAYS DO IT OUT SIDE!!!


I get around that problem by never unloading particular guns, but then I live alone and don't have to worry about someone accidentally picking something up. I religiously treat every gun as if it were loaded, mostly because I know that some of them are. It also helps that I have been shot due to a ND (not my own) and have no desire to repeat the experience.

[USMCDK]

MDeViney,

I agree about the lesson learned, however I disagree with your statement about doing it outside, no one would have been hurt outside either as the bullet would have hit the dirt and only dirt. Not to mention at that hour no one, unless outside, would have heard a thing. in my neighbor hood. Like I said no one inside the house for that matter even woke up to the loud bang. They woke up to me freaking out...

Thank you for you appreciation in my service to this country I take great pleasure, pride, and honor to that statement and I bet every service member would/does too. I also agree that going back to basics is admirable and necessary. Not just for me but for all, even if they don't have an incident like mine.

Which is why LEO's and Military personnel and security officers (ARMED) have to qualify every year.

Thank you once again.

[TimboKhan]

So, I was asked to share my getting shot by a ND story, and so I will. It's not really a blooper though!!!

It happened during Operation Desert Storm. We had stopped in order to do some basic maintenance and what not. My gunner pulled out his pistol to clean it, forgetting that he had a loaded magazine in. He racked the slide, nothing flew out, and so he assumed his pistol was unloaded, when in fact he had obviously just loaded it. Anyway, as opposed to easing the hammer down, he just pulled the trigger, and that was that. We were maybe 5 feet apart, and I was sort of squatting and writing a letter home at the time. The bullet went right through me, and my first response was to stand up and think "hey, what the hell just happened here?". I went down pretty quick, and my platoon mates immediately started first aid. I was lucky in that the corpsmen were coming back from a meeting and were close to our trac, and so I ended up with 4 or 5 corpsmen on me in probably a little less than a minute. There were some logistical issues getting me to a helo pad, and so after being more or less stabilized at the BAS, I was treated to a 60 mile Hummer ride over open desert (sucks) while getting bag after bag after bag of blood pumped into me. The blood would make a lap, hit the wound, flow into my stomach, I would puke it up and the cycle would renew. Curiously, the closest place to actually land a helo was an Army POW camp that my good and oldest friend Nate was stationed at! So, once we got there, I got loaded onto a helo, and promptly passed out. I didn't wake up again that I remember for about 2 days.

In terms of the damage done, I lost a kidney, had to have some intestines removed, and had to have my stomach patched up. I have always considered myself lucky to have not been wearing a flak jacket at the time, because I think that the bullet would have expanded more than it did (if in fact it expanded at all), and that would have been bad given how close to my spine the exit wound was.

Blooper-wise, a couple of years later in Somalia I happened to run across this MP Gunny that I had never seen before. He looked at me and said "Hey, is your name Marquart?", to which I said "yes, how do you know that, Gunny?" Evidently, I gave him a hilarious interview at the fleet 5 field hospital after I got out of surgery. To this day, I do not recall even one second of that interview, but apparently I was cracking jokes and what not.

Probably the worst part about the whole experience was seeing the look on my friends face after it happened. If I never see a human make a face like that again, it will be too soon. He very literally was as white as a ghost, and he just had this sort of stunned, horrified look on his face that I will never forget. It sounds silly, but I think I actually felt worse for him than I did for me at that particular moment, and any anger or hatred that might have developed towards him was squashed right then and there.

The fact is, had he done any of three things that we were supposed to do (Visually look, ease the hammer down, make sure the gun is pointed in a safe direction), I would not have been hit. However, humans make mistakes, particularly when they are tired, and I suffered as a result. Philosophically speaking, it was avoidable, and it shouldn't have happened, but it did and being angry about it wouldn't have changed anything. In fact, some very positive things happened to me as a direct result of that gunshot, so while I wish I had my kidney back, I am also thankful for having lived through the experience.

[Killermonkey21]

In regards to the method of clearing the weapon by pulling the trigger.

No one, in any unit, in any country, any where, is perfect. That is a given. My unit has had the occasional dumbass cause an ND (one on an M2 .50 BMG) so after a few months, the higher-ups decided to do something SMART for once.
Policy changed to DO NOT PULL THE TRIGGER! NCO's were instructed to verify weapons clear when returning to base, and that was that.
Then the new guys got here and almost shot a Captain in a briefing room...he hadn't left the wire in over a month...he had a LOADED CHAMBER for over a month...not everyone in the military is the brightest bulb out of the box.

As for me, in bloopers, not myself but a very close friend.

His M4 with attached M203 went with him everywhere, obviously. He was also a gunner on convoy missions, where he used his 203 to shoot flares.
We were sitting around after cleaning the crew serves and my buddy looks through his ACOG at the wall, just messin around. Another Specialist walks up and practically looks down the barrel (dumbass) and does a double take...
...Dude...check your 203 man. *chink chunk*...
...
Awwww ****.
He pockets the flare and closes the chamber, looking around to make sure no NCO's saw...and goes about his business. He's 29 and has had lots of experience with firearms, but sometimes people make mistakes. That taught him a good lesson.

-John

PS: FYI the muzzle velocity of a flare is around 250 f/s...still enough to crush bones and light someone on fire at point blank.

[Guitargod1985]

TimboKahn, wow that's a scary story man. I'm glad you survived. It sounds like you had a brush with death that day, and I'm sure you know how very lucky you are. And people say a 9mm is too weak :rolleyes:

[USMCDK]

Another Specialist walks up and practically looks down the barrel (dumbass)

WOW you said it what a ****** bag. he luck your friend didn't light his @$$ up like the forth of july.

I would have just asked him to show me a clear tube. not look down the exiting end. :banghead:

As for NCO's checking the chamber we do that as well in the Marines but still do the click no bang thing. *SIGH*

[shep854]

The above accounts are why there are 4 safety rules; they act as a safety net for each other. If we flub one, the others will still protect us.
As for pulling the trigger after clearing, my understanding was that it was simply to decock the arm. With rifles, etc, there is no other way. With pistols, I either use the decock feature or lower the hammer with my thumb (pointed in a safe direction, natch). In fact, many times I will even control the hammer even with a decocker (that click of metal on metal, even though harmless to the gun, just screams excessive wear to me).

Regarding NDs, I keep wanting to post the "those who have and those who will," but I hope passionately for the category of "those who never will," because they apply ALL of the 4 Rules religiously.

[Killermonkey21]

No, no, no. He wasn't checking the barrel, he was messing around. And just happened to see the white tip of the flare down the tube of the 40mm.

[Picard]

What you said, USMCDK, reminds me of something that I did, although not with a firearm.

For any of you guys that are into archery, the #1 rule is DO NOT DRYFIRE YOUR BOW! If you do, your bow can explode, seriously injuring you and destroying the bow in the process.

I bought a brand new Martin Moab compound bow earlier this year as my first bow. I had been saving up for about 3 months to buy it (college student's budget) and couldn't wait to get it. When it finally came, I couldn't wait to get it out of the UPS box. I was so excited. I wanted to see how the draw on it felt. It felt great. I called my sisters into the room and told them, "look, I can draw the bow back easily." Then, in my excitement, "POP!" I must have loosened my grip because, before I knew it, the string had slipped off of my fingers, making a really loud noise. The bow was in one piece, however.

I could not believe what I did. I looked the bow over and thought that I saw cracks all over the bow. I thought that I just had wasted $400. For about 2 weeks after that, even the thought of archery made me want to puke. Anyways, I called the company up and they just said to send it in. A few weeks later, I had a brand new bow. I still don't feel like they should have replaced it for free, but I'm not going to argue with that kind of customer service. For any of you wondering, Martin is an exceptional bow company.

Moral of the story: Mistakes Happen. As long as nobody gets hurt, you move on, hopefully not making the same mistakes again.

[herohog]

yer kidding... right? Not having an arrow nocked can break a bow?!?! I didn't know that. (serious as a heart attack, no sarcasm.)

[shep854]

I suppose it's the same idea as dropping a slide on an empty chamber or dry-firing; the arrow, like a cartridge, soaks up just enough energy to prevent damage.

[Picard]

It's mainly a physics thing. Energy doesn't just disappear. With some of the newer compound bows out there, the combined energy is around 500-600#'s, if not mistaken. When the energy is not transferred to an arrow, it gets transferred to the limbs, stressing them in ways that they were never meant to be stressed. Strings can also snap, cams can bend, basically everything can break.

Many people that aren't familiar to archery don't know that. It's quite a common thing to hear a friend picking up a bow, only to look surprised when it breaks after he dryfires it.

As a shameless plug to help the archery industry, if you like shooting guns, and want an alternative that is arguably more challenging and helps exercise your upper body, try out archery. Arrows can be used over and over again, making shooting it basically free after you have all the equipment. I plan on going bowhunting next season with my bow after practicing with it all summer. I'll be sure to keep you guys updated when I do that.

[USMCDK]

And back to you "ON TOPIC"

Thank you USMCDK.

In other blooper news, an employee, of an un-named company, accidentally dropped not one but TWO cases (a case holds 10) of firearms today all over a concrete floor, and thusly stressed out after said event.

(NO GUNS WERE HURT IN THE FILMING OF SAID INCIDENT)

Another story that has just come to mind is another back when I was in.

I remember a SSgt (Staff Sergeant) in the Marines (once again no name to save ones credit) that was a neat freak with his 9mm. Anyways it was another day of Qualifications down on the range. Said SSgt decided to clean his 9mm before firing, but forgot one tiny, yet nasty, lil step when reassembling his weapon. So qual begins and SSgt loads his pistol. Range master comes over the Mic. "clear on the left? Clear on the Right? All clear on the firing line! Shooters you may begin when your targets appear, TARGETS!!!" BANG!!! CLINK! THUD!!!! is the sound SSgt hears when he see his Slide and Barrel go flying from grip to dirt. Can anyone guess what he forgot to do after assembling his weapon??? That's right you guessed it. He didn't put the damn slide lock pin back into the weapon.

Now don't ask me how he managed to rack it back and not have the slide fall off right then and there. I only heard the story from him directly, I didn't actually get to witness it, but dam nI wish I could have. I would have laughed my @$$ off at him so bad.

[DevilDog0402]

The fact is, had he done any of three things that we were supposed to do (Visually look,ease the hammer down, make sure the gun is pointed in a safe direction), I would not have been hit.

You are talking about the M9 right?

The M9 has a decocker so that you don't have to lower the hammer manually. It blocks the firing pin when the hammer drops...

There is actually no reason the hammer should have been cocked in the first place. The hammer will only remain cocked if the safety is off. The M9 can (and should always) be disassembled with the safety on (and the hammer down).