From mnrivrat:
"Many years ago I was visiting my brother on the farm site he was renting . We were doing some shooting and I emptied my Colt SA but holstered it without removing the empties. I was done shooting. After some time when all shooting was done, I removed the gun from the holster to put it away. The resulting shot fired from my "empty" gun cut the strap on my brothers sandals and put a hole in his sock. It did not break the skin , but it did make him hop and grab his foot. That was about 40 years ago, but to this day I think of it most every time I pick up a gun. I always check to make sure a gun is not loaded as soon as I pick it up."
Well , you made a serious mistake , but you and your brother got away with it. Thank God for that.
Now , What caused your SA Colt to discharge as you removed it from the holster? How did the hammer get accidentally drawn back , and then how was the trigger pulled? Or was it a case of firing pin resting on a live round , in which case the gun must have a hard landing of some sort to cause the primer to detonate .
"Many years ago I was visiting my brother on the farm site he was renting . We were doing some shooting and I emptied my Colt SA but holstered it without removing the empties. I was done shooting. After some time when all shooting was done, I removed the gun from the holster to put it away. The resulting shot fired from my "empty" gun cut the strap on my brothers sandals and put a hole in his sock. It did not break the skin , but it did make him hop and grab his foot. That was about 40 years ago, but to this day I think of it most every time I pick up a gun. I always check to make sure a gun is not loaded as soon as I pick it up."
Well , you made a serious mistake , but you and your brother got away with it. Thank God for that.
Now , What caused your SA Colt to discharge as you removed it from the holster? How did the hammer get accidentally drawn back , and then how was the trigger pulled? Or was it a case of firing pin resting on a live round , in which case the gun must have a hard landing of some sort to cause the primer to detonate .