Negligent Discharge at Cabelas Today

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I was at Kansas City's Cabelas today looking at rifles, and a guy about 15 feet away by the same gun counter had a ND. It was with a single pump air rifle. I don't think it was loaded with a pellet, and at least it was pointed up.

The guy that fired it was speechless, and the clerks behind the counter were a bit upset.

I don't know why he thought he could "dry fire" an air rifle. :confused:
 
No, but the clerk I was talking with said he'd better be careful in case there is an undercover cop that heard it and may draw. I left right after that.
 
Reading the title of this I was a bit scared. If it wasn't an air rifle that would have been a serious safety lapse on Cabela's part.
 
I can't even imagine doing that. God, I'd be so embarassed! I'd never go in the place again. I bet the kind of person who does it is the kind of person who doesn't know enough to feel like an idiot.
 
Most air rifles are not designed to be dry fired and it can damage the springs. I hope they check the springs out before they put it back up for sale:uhoh:.
 
I can't even imagine doing that. God, I'd be so embarassed! I'd never go in the place again. I bet the kind of person who does it is the kind of person who doesn't know enough to feel like an idiot.
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lol, i agree... thats why you should have pointed and laughed after you realized there was no danger, and no one was harmed.. maybe the guy would leave and never think about touching a fire arm again.. although it was an air rifle this person obviously does not reguard fire arms with the right amount of respect they deserve.
 
Negligent discharge? You mean it discharged air unexpectedly when the guy pulled the trigger or it expelled air after he pumped it and pulled the trigger. If the latter, then it was intentional, not negligent.

Did anyone draw down on him?
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Yeah right. Tacticool and street savvy gun owners don't even attempt to draw or take cover when a gun is ND'd at gun shows. Why would they bother after hearing a single psssft?
 
It's usually easier to tell if the bow is loaded.
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You now owe me a keyboard! Coffee spewin' all over'em uses'em up in quick-time...

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I haven't messed with my Feinwerkbau in ten years, but I seem to recall that I uncocked it by holding the barrel open and slowly letting it close by while holding the trigger.

You gotta be ready for the piston spring to "take over" while the barrel is being closed, though.
 
Hammerbite, yes dry firing is very bad for airguns and bows.....on some heavier bows, dry firing can break the limbs off. Flying pieces of bow limb can be dangerous.
 
nasty
bows really don't like being dry fired.
prat with the air rifle
"SIR MIGHT FIND THIS MORE SUITABLE A SUPER SOAKER OR A NERF GUN "
 
Depends on the type of airgun. Pnumatics are fine as long as you put a little air in them first, and many high end guns are specifically designed to be dry fired. My Benjamin 392 has been dry fired(with one pump) thousands of times with no noticeable negative effect(only effect was breaking in the trigger). Dry firing with break barrels and other spring piston guns is not something you want to do.
 
Will a bow go off if you drop it?

How about a blowgun?
 
I know it isn't very good for an air gun to be dry fired, but I'd hardly call pulling the trigger on a non-loaded air gun a negligent discharge.
 
What a waste of bandwidth.

The gun store I worked in had about an hourly "ND" of an airgun.

It was always answered by the tired chorus (both employee and customer), "Don't dry fire the airguns..."
 
know it isn't very good for an air gun to be dry fired, but I'd hardly call pulling the trigger on a non-loaded air gun a negligent discharge.
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Four rules run amuck. Wouldn't suprise me if some folks would draw down on you for sweeping them with a hot glue gun.:p
 
Dang, sure coulda used that when I was growning up in Johnson County!

I grew up in JOCO too. Roeland Park. Did you go to High School there? I went to SM North.:)
 
I haven't messed with my Feinwerkbau in ten years, but I seem to recall that I uncocked it by holding the barrel open and slowly letting it close by while holding the trigger.
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I had one of those high dollar darn things go off on me all by itself as a kid. In hunters safety class in 8th grade no less. Honest as all get at. I closed the breech with that long cocking lever and blam, it went off into a acoustic ceiling tile. My finger was not even on the trigger. Luckily the guy next to me was watching and vouched for me. I still got the zero with a dot in it on the score card, which meant a B+ no matter how good you did in the course. Gosh, that was 25 years ago. As they say, it's ALWAYS LOADED, duh, it's a gun.
 
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