What's the dumbest thing you ever did with a gun ?

When I was about 11 or 12, a friend and I found some .22lr ammo. We lined them up on a fence post and shot at them with our BB guns, trying to make a big "bang" noise.

I hit mine first. It made the bang noise but I was so focused on the pain above my left eye that I barely noticed it. The case had come back at me, and smacked me right above my left eyebrow.

The worst part was having to explain what I had done, because, (after the fact of course), I realized what a incredibly bad idea it was.

I was always more lucky than smart as a kid.

I failed to purchase my first duty weapon, a S&W 686 no dash, when the Department went to the Glock 20 in the mid 1990's. I always regretted that, but at the time I just didn't have the funds available, house payments, kids, and car payments. Then about one year after I retired (about 16 years after letting my assigned S&W 686 go) I found another S&W 686 no dash that the widow of one of our Detectives was selling as he had passed away. That Detective was one of the best and he was just a good man, now when I go shoot I think about him. Life is good.
Westy39

When I was about 14 yrs. old I was hunting rabbits with my brother in law. The 22 pistol I was carrying slipped out of my hand and landed on the hammer and discharged. It landed with the barrel pointing directly at my crotch. The bullet went through the crotch of my pants and then barely grazed my family jewels, ouch! I must have layed on the gorund for 20 minutes sweating and groaning in severe pain before I could get up.

Ever since that accident over 40 yrs. ago, I have beocme very attentitive to my grip, and never walk around with the pistol in my hand, but in the holster until it is needed.
GS

Sold it.

Gamestalker wins.

I was about 12 years old. My father and i were deer hunting and i was using his 30-30. It had one in the chamber and the hammer half cocked. When we got on the four wheelers he was taking a leak in front of mine and I did what I always do and pulled the hammer all the way back then put my thumb (in a fleece glove) on the hammer and pulled the trigger. The rifle was between my legs on the seat pointed towards the front of the four wheeler and where my father was then there was a loud bang and my dad went immediately down. I was terrified but then he bounced back up. After I got a good chewing and the rifle tore from my hands we went silently back to the trucks. I will never again do something that dumb and always pay close attention to the muzzle.

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1). Driving full speed up a NY highway with a buddy of mine to his house (he was driving) and I was shooting my Ruger MK II at every road sign we passed. Must've fired 100 rounds. W T H were we thinking!? (we were in college at the time).

2) Shot 30-35 breeding Northern Pike with said Ruger and had a heII of a fish fry. Not legal to shoot fish in NY, but it was literally as easy as shooting fish in a barrel!

3) Same trip. He lived literally a mile from the Canadian border, and on the way home, we swung across the border to get a few cases of beer...with 2 handguns in the trunk! We got stopped on the NY side coming back in and they searched the trunk and found my (legal) guns, but commented that we should've been thankful the RCMP didn't catch us. Never thought of that, they were in the trunk with all of our crap. Stupid

It was fun weekend, tho!

Fired my M107 (Barrett fifty cal) without ear protection during a firefight.

Auditory exclusion only goes so far friends.