Okay, it's time to fess up on YOUR ND or AD

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Can't help ya out in the AD/ND department, as I'm too "afraid" that any gun I handle may be loaded, so I'll remain an educated coward..

Sorry, I'm a bit slow...But can you explain to me how this makes you a coward?

If you give me a good enough explanation, I guess I am a coward as well. :)
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It was, and is, the same for me with flying, and of the last year, my new handguns..

It's a fear, driven by, not becoming complacent, taking nothing for granted (in certain areas) going by the book, rules, check lists, etc.

Just don't want to die, or get hurt, being complacent with things that one little mistake can lead to a life changing, big mistake for, me or, others.

It, the educated (and still being educated) coward in me keeps my ego in check, I guess.. :)


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Up in the mountains I handed a crazy neighbor of mine a .357 Magnum to try out. He's been around guns all his life; I didn't warn him about the match trigger on it because I assumed he'd keep his finger off the trigger until he was ready to shoot. He fired the gun as he was getting his grip on it, scared all of us.

It was pointed in a safe direction. I heard from another neighbor that he's been careless about stray shots before - rule #4. Two broken rules are more than enough for me.

I don't hang out with him anymore.
 
My negligent discharge was more stupidity than anything else. I was 11 my best friend stole a Berreta .25 we were checking it out, he disassembled it. when we put it back together we chambered a round somehow ( remember this was close to 30 years ago) any way he dropped the mag & handed my the pistol I pointed it at him then away and pulled the trigger I have ( I hope) learned better in the intervening 3 decades
 
back in the 60's when I was teenager a friend of mine got an M1 carbine.It was the first one I'd ever held.
We were living in Jersey City at the time and he lived on the 5th floor of an apartment house. I picked it up and aimed through an open window at a three story house about half a block away,squeezed the trigger and BOOM!
Holy crap!
Being kids we did the only thing we could do, we ran,down 5 flights of stairs,out the back door and out on the street.
Every thing appeared normal on the street, no big deal,but someone complained about kids setting off firecrackers in the hall.
I saw the bullet impact the roof of the other house,a puff of dust near the far wall.I learned a lesson that day,From that point on I always assume a weapon is loaded
 
A few years back a friend of mine that works 3rd shift called me in the middle
of the night and asked me to drive 40 miles to his house and check on his
wife. She had called him and said "gun boom water" and some other stuff
he could not make out.
They were newly married and she was scared to be home alone so he left
her a loaded 12 gauge in the closet and said "for emergency use".
Well she got board and got it out of the closet and was pointing it at her
image in the mirror on the Headboard of there water bed, when KABOOM.
She flooded most of the house. You would not believe how much water
is in a king size waterbed.
 
I've had one AD and one ND.

First, the AD. Well, really mechanical malfunction. I was out shooting with my buddies. I had an AK. We had backed up the truck (an old fullsize Blazer) to the firing line (out in the forest). I fired a mag and went back to the truck to reload. I went to lay the rifle down with the muzzle pointing towards the front of the truck, away from everyone. When I set the rifle down, BOOOM. Freaking thing went off! Bullet went through the back seat, the front seat, the dash, and into the engine compartment where it hit a shock tower. Didn't really hurt anything. Further examination revealed that the hammer pin had worked out to one side, so when I pulled the trigger, it only fell a little bit and got hung up somewhere on the inside. I guess the shock from setting it down let it go the rest of the way. I thought I had fired all 30 rds, but I had only fired 29. Moral of the story, ALWAYS check the chamber for clear before you set the gun down, particularly on firearms without a bolt hold open.

Then the ND. I'm still not sure what happened, but I must have pulled the trigger. I had just finished cleaning my Sig P228 and was reloading it. I filled the mag, racked it, pointed it in a safe direction and hit the de-cocker. BOOM. I was shocked. It went through a wall and into the dirt outside. I have no memory of my finger being on the trigger. But it MUST have been. I loaded up some cases with just primers, no powder no bullet, and tried duplicating it. None of them went off. So I must have pulled the trigger. Let me tell you, after that, I have always been very cognizant of muzzle direction. You just never know when you might screw up.

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While I have never had an ND or AD personally, here are two which happened around me.

1. Decades ago when I was 15, I loaned a friend my Savage 22/410. He was new to guns, so I probably should have been watching him more closely. Somehow, while he was loading a .22LR into the chamber, he got the cartridge rim under the extractor (I have no idea how). When he closed the break-action, the extractor closed on the rim and the round went off. The muzzle was pointed in a safe direction so no harm was done, but it scared us both.

2. I was at a muzzle-loader club range. Everyone had just come back from the target line and the range was "cleared". I loaded my flintlock, stepped up to the firing line, and heard a gun go off to the left of and behind me...as a .54 roundball blasted the dirt 1" from my left foot. Some clown had gone downrange leaving a loaded rifle at his bench and forgot it was loaded (neglecting 2 cardinal rules of muzzle-loaders: #1: don't leave a loaded gun at the bench and #2: check it with a marked ramrod to make sure it's not loaded before doing anything else). When he returned to the bench, he picked up his rifle, leaned against the bench, busted a percussion cap in it to 'clear the vent" and nearly blew a hole in me. I packed up my toys and headed home, thankful that everything attached to me was still intact.

JS
 
I've never had one (and I hope I never do) but my dad had a accidental or negligent discharge. I don't remember the full details but I was about 8 years old at the time. My dad was cleaning one of his handguns and it was late at night at our house in the living room, I think he had a squib or something because he was fiddling around with the barrel. I don't remember the gun being taken apart but I remember the magazine was out of the gun. I was sitting next to him watching tv. Seconds later I hear a really loud bang and my ears are ringing like crazy. The ceiling had a large hole in it, my mother comes in screaming asking what the hell happened and their asking me if i'm alright. I went to sleep and my ears were still ringing, they were fine the next day. I could hear my parents yelling and my dad was claiming it was a blank.

Scary moment, and i'm sure a very embarrassing moment for my dad. My guess is he pulled the trigger as I don't see how it would have went off on it's own, he was pretty obsessive about safety and a FFL dealer at the time. My mother hated guns for a long time saying my dad could have killed me.
 
Two in 40 years of handling guns. Been 30 years since the last one (knock on wood). One was clearly my fault. I swear I unloaded that 22 auto pistol (well, except for the one in the chamber, the classic bonehead mistake). A 40 grain 22 LR from a 4" barrel punched through five interior walls. Must have nothing but dry-wall.

Second was a 1911 that fired when the hammer was manually lowered. No slipping, hammer under control and softly lowered, but gun fired. Since then I learned that primers can get sensitive from loading and unloading over time and can fire at the slightest touch. May have happened, here. Bullet went harmlessly into cement floor covered by carpet.

You try. You try real hard. You hope it never happens. But humans are imperfect by design. Remember the 4 rules.
 
The only one I have ever had was on a ad hoc pheasant hunting trip while visiting my parents out of town and had none of my hunting stuff with me. An old buddy from high school wanted to go, and I borrowed field cloths from my dad and a spare shotgun from the buddy. The shotgun was an OU and I had never so much as held an OU before. I am still not sure how I did it, but I managed to set it off while it was cradled in my arm (pointed in a safe direction).
 
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Never had one myself thankfully and plan to never have one. However, my grandfather had a good one that I was party to and helped repair the damage done.

He was going to clean a 20 ga. shotgun on his enclosed patio when he must've brushed the trigger and this sucker had a hair trigger - the shot penetrated a window into the kitchen and embedded in the ceiling - nice tight pattern too as the range was about three feet. Amazingly this plate glass window didn't shatter, there was just a clean punched hole right through the corner of it where the shot discharged. When I finally got to take a look - the brass on the shot shell had blackened from age - thus my first rule of handling firearms - always manually check the chamber!
 
I have had one in nearly 35 years of gun ownership.
I used to practice pulling the trigger without jerking it, on my S&W model 29 .357 revolver while sitting around the home. I would empty all the rounds out of the cylinder and point the gun out the window at the yard and squeeze the trigger trying to keep the barrel steady.
My wife would get home from work in the middle of the night and instead of waking me would go sleep in the spare bedroom and she liked having this handgun close to her for home defence, so she would usually grab it and put it on the nightstand next to her. This one evening I go to retrieve the gun and it isn't where I left it but on the night stand in the spare bedroom. I know I had not reloaded it last night like I normally do, and did not even consider that my wife had reloaded it when she got home. I was in the kitchen, with our chow 'Diablo' at my feet and pointed the gun out the front window and pulled the trigger. What a shock the sound of that blast was. Put a nice hole through the double pane window and the storm window. I was so thankful that I hadn't pointed it at the mutt or anything else of significance in the house. I also was ashamed that I had broken one of the sacred gun handling rules. Needless to say I never practiced like that again, and to add to my shame I lied to my wife about it the next day when she was home and said I had been playing around with Diablo and a broom and the broom handle had gone through the window. She never questioned it and doesn't know my secret to this day.
 
Well you could say this is a hang fire or who ever had it did something wrong. I just bought my WASR-10 AK-47 and i took it down to mu uncles farm. Well i didn't know it (thought the range checks the weapon but no they don't) The hammer was in backwards. so i would shoot 2 rounds then i nothing so i took my hand off the pistol grip and it went off well i was still pointed down range but took the mag out cleared the weapon fixed it and had a chat with the gun store owner.
 
I had an unintentional discharge from a Remington Mohawk 600 on a deer hunting trip. I snapped the safety off in order to unload the gun when we were returning to the vehicles. The gun discharged. I had it pointed in a safe direction, nobody harmed. My dad was sufficiently enraged at my "carelessness" to biff me one in the head. I was certain my finger wasn't on the trigger, but didn't want to argue the point and get belted another one. That was over 30 years ago. My dad still remembers it as me being careless with the trigger.
Since then I've found out that model was recalled for defective trigger mechanisms that would occasionally fire when the safety was released. None the less, I didn't intend the rifle tofire when it did so it was unintentional. Muzzle discipline is always a good thing.
 
One each for me

AD: Was pot-shooting at turtles on a neighbor's tank (stock tank, aka "pond") on a cool morning. Was shooting Dad's old single-shot Stevens .22 that had a heavy straight-pull hammer. Somehow the hammer slipped through my fingers with enough force to pop off that .22 round. Don't know who was more scared: the big turtle I was trying to bust or me!

The ND still scares me to this day, and it was 20+ years ago. My brother and I were shooting my Savage 110 in .270 Winchester, getting ourselves warmed up for deer season. We were shooting from one hilltop, across a ravine, to another hillside about 150 yards away. I loaded 4 and shot 4 - I was certain - and sent him to mark the shots on the target. I watched him through my binoculars and while he walked back towards me, I made adjustments to the scope. I have no idea what the heck I was thinking, but I decided to dryfire. Except the gun wasn't dry. Kablooie! I sent a 130 grain silvertip over my brother's head and into the hillside opposite me. Thankfully, he was down in the gulley - he didn't even know I shot. I let him finish shooting then...I had the shakes so bad I couldn't even load the gun for him.

Thank God...He was watching over us that day!

Please...if there is any lesson to be learned by all these "funny" stories, it's don't try to show those of us who have been fortunate how fortunate you can be as well!!!
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I was sitting at home when I was 16. It was around 2pm when I heard my dad come home from work. Heard the garage close and then a loud bang. For some reason I knew exactly what it was and my first though was "hope he didn't shoot himself" i went into the garage and he was standing there inspecting a nice little hole in the door of a freezer in our garage Made by a black talon 9mm out of a beretta 92.

thinking back now i remember sometimes seeing him put the gun on safe and pulling the trigger a time or to to test it i guess. anyway we packed the hole with paper towel and that freezer went right on working for many years.

I have had one AD. I was at the range with a friend and hand my colt python cocked and ready to fire pointed down range and I was in a shooting stance. I turned to answer a question my buddy asked and i guess i tightened my finger slightly and BOOM!. He looked at me and said,"you didn't mean to do that did you? I said nope.

Does this really count as an AD?
 
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i was 8 yr old and was shooting my new nef 410 single shot for the first time. i dont remember why but i eared back the hammer and then decided not to shoot. went to lower the hammer and it slipped off my thumb. shot hit about 3 inches in front of my boot. was a major shock.
 
Up in the mountains I handed a crazy neighbor of mine a .357 Magnum to try out. He's been around guns all his life; I didn't warn him about the match trigger on it because I assumed he'd keep his finger off the trigger until he was ready to shoot. He fired the gun as he was getting his grip on it, scared all of us.

It was pointed in a safe direction. I heard from another neighbor that he's been careless about stray shots before - rule #4. Two broken rules are more than enough for me.

I don't hang out with him anymore.

Was that a cocked handgun you handed him? I have heard of hair triggers before, but if ya finger an uncocked DA hard enough to set it off, hair trigger or not, your in trouble.
 
Blew a hole through the barn porch roof. Was stepping out from under cover to blast pigeons, and the cat (being eager for fresh birds and all) tangled in my feet and tripped me. Went down hard and in the process of keeping the shotgun pointed up and using the butt to break my fall, swiped the trigger.
 
I'm too lazy to look up where I posted this before. :)
It was a ND. My fault (and range officer gets 2% of blame) ;)
We were a group shooting a "action" league. bowling pins/move to cover/hostage targets at varied ranges outdoors.
After we were done for night (but BEFORE beer come out as group was VERY stict that guns are cased before beer is broken out)
One member of group (Deputy Sheriff) had a POS pickup that he was going to use for a wood hauler only till it died. He decided he wanted a string of bullet holes thru box. He (temp) marked "no shoot" areas (wireing/fuel tank/lines/etc) and marked how he wanted shots. (to emulate a sub machine gun burst) across his bed. (he parked next to Sheriff and had a story planned)
Anyway I had a mag that I KNEW held 3 rds. (first mistake) I lined up and fired the 3 and RO gave commands to remove mag/show empty chamber/drop hammer and holster. Thing is it was getting DARK rather fast and the fire was not kicking out much light. I had (assumed) the slide went forward because of mag and as no rd came out when I jacked slide back and RO looked..... I pointed at next (target area) and dropped hammer. BOOM
So it qualifies as ND Nobody was in any danger/bullet did hit target.... I just didn't think it was loaded. So a flashlight was gotten to make SURE. ;)
 
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