swan hunter
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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!!!
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!!!