Accident on "Doomsday Prepers"

[Dr T]

After watching part of one episode, I decided that the show was worse than a bad joke and felt sorry for all of the poor little electrons that were shamelessly sacrificed to make the show.

There is something about "testing" the side of a metal shipping container for its ability to turn bullets by shooting it with a 22 lr? Give me a break.

It appears to me that the producers have set out to deliberately make people with guns appear to be buffoons.

Unfortunately, that's entertainment.

 

[gym]

So between this guy, and the people shooting at steel shipping containers with 22's, all you need are the addresses of these people and you have all the work done for you, as they won't last a week.

 

[huntsman]

I may be mistaken but I swear his older son’s gun fired full auto right before that incident, I wonder if his guns weren’t bubbed up.

 

[Dr T]

You know, the ASPCA monitors the use of animals used in entertainment production.

Perhaps another role for the NRA is to monitor the safe and appropriate use of guns used in entertainment production.

Many of the bad habits I have seen in the field I could swear I saw in the movies first. Are unsafe, or nonsensical, gun handling practices invented in Hollywood because they produce "a more dramatic effect" (like holding a semi-auto pistol horizontally)?

 

[DAP90]

Maybe I have a lousy imagination. NDs resulting in self-inflicted injuries are not difficult to comprehend with a handgun. How do you wrap your mittens on the end of a rifle barrel and discharge the firearm?

He wasn’t using a stock 10-22 from the looks of it. Rifle butt on the group, hand over muzzle, light target trigger, round chambered, safety off, totally oblivious to safety rules, bump the stock on the ground while moving it and maybe the sear slips and the gun goes off.

If he’s shooting it I don’t see how he could shoot himself on the thumb without deliberately reaching in front of the gun with his non-firing hand. I swear I saw him reaching far forward during one of the shooting scenes as if to touch the front sight, so maybe.

Either way he has to have some extremely poor gun handling for this to happen. At the start of the shooting scene he talks about how they go to the desert to shoot because they can do more realistic shooting scenarios without all those pesky range safety rules.

 

[ThorinNNY]

Many of the Reality Shows seem to be produced by the type of people that would urge some desperate person on the ledge of a tall building to JUMP! JUMP! JUMP!

 

[GEM]

The family in the cargo containers lives 30 miles from San Antonio and think that testing them with 22s could save them from the 1 million or so folks here on the rampage? They should come to a carbine match - there are more than 22 LR in the hands of the public.

Just reality TV. Waiting for Tactical Wife Swapping on the Oprah Network.

 

[aeriedad]

Many of the Reality Shows seem to be produced by the type of people that would urge some desperate person on the ledge of a tall building to JUMP! JUMP! JUMP!

To some degree, I think that describes many reality show viewers as well.

 

[Claude Clay]

i channel surfed by it
....lucky me

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as for gun related, if he burnt his hand on the camp stove, in his mind
there is no differance
.....that darn burner turned itself on and burned me

the comment that reality tv writers would tell a jumper---jump,
was spot on

 

[Striker Fired]

I kind of thought he shot himself with the 9mm pistol(I think it was a 9).They were jumping back and forth ,showing him shooting the 10/22,them the 9mm,then the .22 and just before you heard the pop a sort of yell,they were showing the kid with the 10/22.When they first showed him on the ground holding up his hand,I think I saw the pistol laying on the ground to his left.I don't know for sure,they were jumping the film all over the place,not in order,as it was taped.The doctor took out his knuckle so now he has a 3/4" shorter thumb with no knuckle.
I watched it for the "entertainment",it takes all kind of people,to me its just funny.

 

[brickeyee]

so you are saying he shot himself on purpose?.......no?.....then it was an accident.....QED.

So if you put your hand over the muzzle and then screw up and the gun discharges it is an accident?

It was a loaded gun.

Try reading and comprehending rule 2.

Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.

It works very well.

 

[Mike1234567]

Well... this is completely out of my character and I was pretty surprised when, after the initial ***?, I actually chuckled a bit. Now I feel guilty for the chuckle. But we see so many of these really dumb things that, after some time, a simple ***? just doesn't cut it anymore.

 

[sigpro]

Jeff H- I'm no prepper, but I can't imagine ridding out Doomsday, without a .22lr. They are realitivly quite, you can carry a bunch of rounds, they are cheap, and they are everywhere. Also, no one wants to get shot with anything, not even a dinky .22.

It did sound like that 22 was full auto. Then again I know they often re-dub the sound effects on those TV shows.

Also, it might have just been the camera angle, but it looked like he was shooting from behind his son at one point. It looked like he was shooting over the kids shoulder. That shovel was Bad Ass though.

 

[Certaindeaf]

.I can't imagine ridding out Doomsday, without a .22lr..

As per definition, it is one day. The last thing I'd want for any one day, doom time or not, would be a .22LR. Just saying. The old time saying was (historic), that were you to go to war and and were to take out one adversary, you done did good. What are people even thinking these days?

 

[Certaindeaf]

Oops, this was probably the wrong thread.

 

[stumpers]

I have not seen the episode in question, but I watched one of the other episodes last night. I was not impressed.

The young woman from Texas should be ashamed of how she represented herself and how she portrayed the firearms community with the way she conducted herself on camera, specifically in the callous way she described euthanizing her cats and the seemingly pompous way she described how awesome she was before miserably failing in her SHTF evacuation scenario.

Rant almost over, I promise.

I will not watch the show ever again and will encourage anyone who talks about it to look elsewhere for real, skilled, "normal", and responsible firearms owners before they judge us all as crazy.

 

[Mike1234567]

I haven't watch any of the episodes... just that one short clip. If the show is really that bad then I can only assume it's intended to intentionally make a certain group of people look like ignorant buffoons.

 

[Ryanxia]

I agree it paints gun owners in a less than appealing light but I still like the show. Good to see different aspects/methods of emergency prepping.

 

[huntsman]

It did sound like that 22 was full auto. Then again I know they often re-dub the sound effects on those TV shows.

I watched it with a DVR so I rewound it and after what sounds like a burst (2nd) the kid racks the bolt and looks into the chamber before shooting again and his dad glances over at him.

 

[mnhntr]

It was a small revolver, and later he said that his thumb was in front of the barrel but I believe it was in front of the cylinder. He blamed the "misfire" for his thumb being in front of his barrel.

 

[ny32182]

After watching 5 minutes of one episode of some guy "testing the ballistic protection of his house" by shooting the steel box in which he lives with a mighty .22 (and no ear protection) I'd be a lot more surprised if any of these yahoos made it through the next year WITHOUT shooting themselves.

 

[verge]

I agree with this, it seems hard to do.

The real question is what kind of Doomsday Prepper uses a 22lr??? Would you be taken seriously by all the other Doomsday preppers if you showed up at a gathering armed to the teeth with your 10-22 and a bunch of 10 round rotary mags???

If I was preparing for the end of the world, I would think 223 would be the minimum rifle I would want.

In my opinion, FWIW (not much really), a .22 LR rifle is the single most useful firearm you can have in an EOTW scenario. Not that I think any such situation is likely but if it were to happen you will most likely end up living off squirrels, rabbits and rats. A .223 will be overkill destroying most of the edible portions of said "game". You can easily carry thousands of 22 LR rounds in your BOB. While you can avoid or at least try to avoid human agressors you have to eat.

 

[ObsidianOne]

It really didn't show what happened, the last thing it showed him doing was shooting a semiauto pistol and then he had an issue with his pistol. I thought the slide bit him and he was just being a big sissy but then it showed that it totally blew through his thumb. He said it 'misfired', but then again he told his kids afterwards to make sure to not put anything in front of the muzzle you wouldn't want to lose or something to that effect.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

I can't recall ever having one of those misfires where you thumb goes in front of the barrel and the gun goes off as noted in the Huffington Post clip noted above. Y'all don't recognize that as one of the common problems either, do you?

 

[Justin Holder]

I think the on site paramedic and camera crew should have sat back and let nature take its course, they were filming a "survival" reality show after all.