AD at the pistol range last night

[swan hunter]

My wife & I are range officers at local pistol league in Southern IL.

Last night while shooting .22 pistol, a very experienced shooter had an accidental discharge from 50 ft. barricade using a borrowed Browning Buckmark.

It was right in the middle of the series of 12 rounds from barricade. The Browning had a very light trigger and when he extended and put his rather beefy finger on the trigger, it went off and killed two 4 ft. florescent light tubes and the fixture down range. No hiding it...the bulbs fell and crashed all over the place!

That is why it is always finger outside the trigger guard until ready to fire!

He got a quite a bit of razzing but handled it ok ...It can happen to anyone so we need to be ever diligent on gun safety!!!

 

[308win]

Nothing accidental about it. Sounds more like an ND to me.

 

[CJ]

Just curious about others' experience, but the only time I'm ever pointing 'up' with a firearm is due to recoil. I've always been trained to start 'down' and bring the sights up onto the target and that the people who start 'up' and bring them down onto the target had been watching too many episodes of Charlie's Angels.

Any other experience with this? It seems this type of training would have resulted in a ding in the floor rather than a falling light fixture.

 

[universal]

Nothing accidental about it. Sounds more like an ND to me.

+1

 

[HJP]

ND:

Tell me what ND means, please.

 

[Sisco]

Negligent Discharge

 

[CJ]

Tell me what ND means, please.

'ND' indicates 'Negligent Discharge', indicating negligence on the part of the shooter, usually not following 1 or more of the major Rules.

'AD' is Accidental Discharge, something which many argue very rarely occurs if the Rules are followed.

 

[possum]

Negligent Discharge

fits the bill just right in my opinion.

 

[psyopspec]

Tell me what ND means, please.

Why, North Dakota, of course!

 

[universal]

I was taught in the police academy that there is no such thing as an accidental discharge, only negligent discharges. This is also what we were taught to instruct in the firearms instructor courses I took.

 

[ferges99]

I'm in S Illinois also. Where in S Illinois is there an indoor pistol league???
By the way, as already stated, no such thing as an AD, only ND's.

 

[CountGlockula]

I've had a ND recently and shot up the ceiling at my indoor range. Good thing I was pointing towards the line of fire. Lesson: Keep finger off the trigger, unless you're ready to fire it. In my case: EVEN if you're not going to fire it.

My ND was keeping my trigger finger on the trigger and fiddling with my weak hand sorting out my bullet bag.

 

[swan hunter]

So IL Pistol

We have an indoor .22 range at Carmi...Currently shooting pistol and rifle on different nights.

 

[Ops Officer]

Quote:
"I was taught in the police academy that there is no such thing as an accidental discharge, only negligent discharges. This is also what we were taught to instruct in the firearms instructor courses I took."

Same here. My former office also investigates NDs. I know of eight incidents, which were initially reported as ADs. But in every case they were easily found to be NDs. Somebody broke at least one of the four rules.