The Bushmaster
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Makes your day...Doesn't it Woody...
Wow, 34% of the folks here at THR have had an ND. This number is just a little surprising to me, as most of us here are very experienced gunnies.
My ND was an unintentional double-tap into a 7 yard target while I was still getting used to my new Kimber UCDP's trigger. Scary even then.
What???? Math is good, but the premise: faulty....Let's say a person's chance of an ND is 1 per 100,000 shots fired. A person who only shoots once a year is unlikely to have an ND in his lifetime. But a person who shoots 10,000 rounds of rimfire and 5,000 of centerfire a year (probably common among THR members) will have one, on average, every 7 years..
Don't go by the poll or data on this or any forum....This & other forums represents a small minority of gun owners in this country. Many join because they have problems with their firearm that might be conducive to such ND's and reliability factors. You are correct in one assumption: if you go by the poll conducted, IIRC, Guns & Ammo a year ago; vast majority do little, if any, shooting now-a-days...I think that reinforces what a lot of us have been saying - NDs can and do happen to anyone. No one is 100% immune to them.
Please post a link that backs up this claim.BTW... We're calling this an "Accidental Discharge" when in fact (and by legal definition) it IS a NEGLIGENT Discharge because that’s what it is…And what we could be charged with.
“That term (accidental discharge) needs to go away. There’s no such thing as an “accidental discharge.”
Nice attempt at hijacking but frankly I don't believe for one minute those whom replied YES to this poll were as a result of mechnical rather than human. I would venture a guess mechnical failures are a minuscule number and rare compared to human inducted discharges so please let's try to stay on topic.