Did You Ever Do Something Stupid, like......
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Nate1778
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Yep, I was re-sawing on my cabinet saw and the board kicked back, brought my left hand right through the blade. I remember looking at the blood and chewed skin on my t-shirt and thinking to myself, WOW, THAT WAS STUPID!
Black Knight
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That must be some tough wood, taking a 1911 with you to stain it and needing an extra mag.
Mine was years ago when I used to wear boots. I was carrying (don't laugh!) a .25 in a clip holster inside one boot as a BUG. It was raining so I ran up some concrete steps and my .25 came out and started bouncing down the steps. Even worse was a guy a few steps down watched the gun bounce past him. I acted cool, like it happens all the time!
WardenWolf
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How about getting your brand new big boomer semi-automatic rifle, loading it up, and chambering a round to test feeding, only to have it get STUCK? I had to take it to the local gun club to have one of their techs get it loose. Apparently it was stuck quite solidly, and required a bit more elbow grease than I could provide it to pull the bolt back. It hasn't done that again, fortunately. Once it broke in, I didn't have any more problems.
Leafy Cronmer
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Never participated but i knew a bunch of kids who would routinely spend a few hours throwing 22's at a wall trying to get them to fire. They never got any to go off, if they did they might have crowned the Darwin award winner for that year.
jnyork
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I wont bore you with all the details of how they got this way, , but here are three .30-30 cartridges that got fired in a .303 Brit. Murphy would be proud.
, but here are three .30-30 cartridges that got fired in a .303 Brit. Murphy would be proud.
Since there were some non-gun events posted, I'll share one: I was helping a friend build a pen for her chickens, including a walk-through door. I was using my new framing nailer with the largest nails.
I got down to only one more nail. It was too high to continue the way I had been doing as there was no ladder and not even a bucket to stand on. I was using pieces of wood to put between two 2x4s. I was holding the piece of wood with my left hand, then I pressed against the 2x4 with the nailer and my right hand. This pressure held the wood piece in place, so I would then move my left hand and use it to help push on the nailgun and to make sure my left hand was in a safe place.
This one was too tall to do it that way as I couldn't push hard enough to hold the piece in place. So, I held the piece of wood with my left hand and pressed as hard I could with my right hand.
I pulled the trigger and I immediately said s____ . The nail gun shot off one nail, then another nail as the recoil made it bounce away from the board and my forward pressure fired out another nail when the tip hit something.
That something was my index finger of my left hand. It went through the bone and into the bone of middle finger, exiting through the nail bed of that finger. The head of the nail stopped it from going completely through.
It was a VERY long 30 minute ride to the ER and my focus was on my friend, trying to calm HER down. She was driving 80mph on a curving two lane road. I was the calm one; When it happened, I said s___ then looked at my watch, noting the time. My highly analytical brain thought it would be interesting to see how long it would take
for the pain to hit. I'll give you the answer so you won't attempt this yourself.
It took 5 minutes, then by the time we got to the ER, I was shaking all over from the pain. They did surgery, hooked me up to a pain pump and kept me overnight.
Do I win the stupid award? I was so embarrassed at what I had done. A nurse said: "Now you know what Jesus went through.)
I got down to only one more nail. It was too high to continue the way I had been doing as there was no ladder and not even a bucket to stand on. I was using pieces of wood to put between two 2x4s. I was holding the piece of wood with my left hand, then I pressed against the 2x4 with the nailer and my right hand. This pressure held the wood piece in place, so I would then move my left hand and use it to help push on the nailgun and to make sure my left hand was in a safe place.
This one was too tall to do it that way as I couldn't push hard enough to hold the piece in place. So, I held the piece of wood with my left hand and pressed as hard I could with my right hand.
I pulled the trigger and I immediately said s____ . The nail gun shot off one nail, then another nail as the recoil made it bounce away from the board and my forward pressure fired out another nail when the tip hit something.
That something was my index finger of my left hand. It went through the bone and into the bone of middle finger, exiting through the nail bed of that finger. The head of the nail stopped it from going completely through.
It was a VERY long 30 minute ride to the ER and my focus was on my friend, trying to calm HER down. She was driving 80mph on a curving two lane road. I was the calm one; When it happened, I said s___ then looked at my watch, noting the time. My highly analytical brain thought it would be interesting to see how long it would take
for the pain to hit. I'll give you the answer so you won't attempt this yourself.
It took 5 minutes, then by the time we got to the ER, I was shaking all over from the pain. They did surgery, hooked me up to a pain pump and kept me overnight.
Do I win the stupid award? I was so embarrassed at what I had done. A nurse said: "Now you know what Jesus went through.)
SharpsDressedMan
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My Dad, who was NEVER reckless with a gun, made the mistake of picking up HIS .22 revolver off the porch table(which my brother and I had been shooting that day, like a half hour before), and saying, "Yahoo", and firing a shot in the air. Little did he know that it was loaded (probably because he never shot it much, and never kept it loaded). Unfortunately, the bullet didn't go into the air (we lived in the country), but went into the overhang on the porch. We all had a pretty good laugh at that one...the hole was always there to remind us about gun safety. Yahoo!
The Bushmaster
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Wow jnyork...Looks like they "fireformed" quite nicely...
I "lost" a gun once. Hid it in a safe place while I was in Iran for a month. A few months later I wanted to go to the range and, ***, my gun's not in its usual place? Thought somebody had broken in while I was gone and stolen it. I really didn't want to go through the embarrassment of reporting a "missing" handgun to the California police so I spent the next 6 months off and on tearing apart my house. Finally I found it, right where I hid it. I was SO happy!
proud2deviate
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I got my thumb caught in the action of a China Cheapy air rifle. You know those ones you buy at tool sales for $20? Yep, that kind.
Three stitches through my thumbnail, two on the underside, and a whole lot of aggravation while it healed. I made a carbon steel thumbnail to protect the sensitive nailbed after the original fell off Worked pretty well.
Three stitches through my thumbnail, two on the underside, and a whole lot of aggravation while it healed. I made a carbon steel thumbnail to protect the sensitive nailbed after the original fell off
Worked pretty well.colorado_handgunner
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Spilled a whole bottle of Hopes #9 on the kitchen table. Totally ruined the placemats, my gun cleaning pad, and gun sock. Just so you all know, Hopes turns to glue when it contacts certain things.
Got to the range and realized I had no mags for my .40 Luckily, I had more than one gun with me, so I could still shoot.
Got to the range and realized I had no mags for my .40 Luckily, I had more than one gun with me, so I could still shoot.
I dont remember exactly what I was trying to do but it involed taking the cap off the tube on a pump 12ga. Well I was outside (mistake) hand slipped; spring, plug and, sealcap ended up on the roof of my house. Bad day:banghead:
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Jerryrigging a spring loaded trap-thrower with a rope with a loop in it so I could trip it by pulling the loop with my foot. Standing on the wrong side with the barrel down, tripping it, and the trap arm putting a nice little "ding" in my DADS shotgun. Worse day:banghead::banghead:
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Jerryrigging a spring loaded trap-thrower with a rope with a loop in it so I could trip it by pulling the loop with my foot. Standing on the wrong side with the barrel down, tripping it, and the trap arm putting a nice little "ding" in my DADS shotgun. Worse day:banghead::banghead:
shotgunjoel
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I keep the key to my gun cabinet in my back left pocket. So one day a summer or two ago I got a couple of .22s out of the cabinet, loaded them up, and went shooting. When I got home the key was missing from my pocket! I drove back to where I had been shooting and looked all over the place for that key, but couldn't find it. Well after I had put the guns in the truck, but before I left home I changed out of my shorts and put on a pair of jeans (So I could lay in the grass more comfortably) and I left the key in the pocket of the shorts. Felt so stupid.
U-235
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I was about 10 and living on Ft. Bragg (dad was SF), you could find 5.56 blanks all over the woods. One time my friends and I thought it would be cool to build and fire and toss some blanks in. We built a fire in a coffee can and threw in the blanks. After a few minutes we started hearing pops as the powder ignited. When things quieted down we took a look at the coffee can and saw a bunch of holes in it. The primers had blown out with enough velocity to penetrate the coffee can. Someone was watching out for us that day and nobody got hurt.
franconialocal
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Two stories.....
A few years ago I was cleaning and putting the final assembly touches on a Walther P-22 in my girlfriend's bathroom. It's the only place she would let me do this in her apartment due to cleaner fumes (bathroom fan) and cleanliness. The sink had no stopper in it (can you see where I'm going with this?) The main spring on the P-22 can be a pain to get lined up and back on the guide rod AND put the slide back on as it's rather weak. SPROING!!!!! The spring made about three trips around the bathroom bouncing off of every wall and landing neatly in the sink (enter Murphy)...spinning around three or for times in an ever tightening vortex until if finally went down the drain. I was frantically trying to catch it on it's journey and swearing the entire time. Her brother was nice enough to get it out of the elbow for me because I had to get to work. Lesson learned until......
Note to self: always make sure the take-down lever is secured on your Sig P-220 BEFORE you activate the slide release. The slide can fly through the air about five feet because of the spring tension.
I respect all of you that enter a post here....if you can't laugh at yourself right?!
A few years ago I was cleaning and putting the final assembly touches on a Walther P-22 in my girlfriend's bathroom. It's the only place she would let me do this in her apartment due to cleaner fumes (bathroom fan) and cleanliness. The sink had no stopper in it (can you see where I'm going with this?) The main spring on the P-22 can be a pain to get lined up and back on the guide rod AND put the slide back on as it's rather weak. SPROING!!!!! The spring made about three trips around the bathroom bouncing off of every wall and landing neatly in the sink (enter Murphy)...spinning around three or for times in an ever tightening vortex until if finally went down the drain. I was frantically trying to catch it on it's journey and swearing the entire time. Her brother was nice enough to get it out of the elbow for me because I had to get to work. Lesson learned until......
Note to self: always make sure the take-down lever is secured on your Sig P-220 BEFORE you activate the slide release. The slide can fly through the air about five feet because of the spring tension.
I respect all of you that enter a post here....if you can't laugh at yourself right?!
FROGO207
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Ruckus in the henhouse out back. Find a fox in there, go back and get closest revolver and 38 SPL off of loading bench. Corner fox and pull trigger --6 clicks grabbed my setup rounds with no primers.:banghead: Fox runs between legs with chicken. She earned that chicken.
Just a week or so back, I had what I like to call my $70 blunder. I was packing up to go fishing/shooting, and (appearently) left a bulk pack of Federal .22's on the roof of my truck. How did a $20 box of shells become a $70 mistake? I had 4 Ruger 10/22 mags packed in the box, along with the 7 shot clip from my Marlin 917, aside from the remainder of the ammo!!!!. I didn't even know what happened until I realized the mags were missing, and figured out the last time I'd "used" them. D'oh!~
AKElroy
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I detail stripped my win 94 to replace a broken FP, took the occasion to soak clean all the little bits, dried, oiled, re-assembled. A few dry fires later, it just does not feel right. Looking in the bucket, I see a nice shiny falling block stewing in the brake cleaner. Other than another well earned idiot memory, no additional harm done other than having to tear the gun down again.
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