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When I was a kid take some .22 shells over past the drive-in and find a steel pipe and lay one down on the pipe and smack the primer end with a rock hoping the bullet would fly out the other end. :banghead: After about eight of those and ringing ears on ever one of them, :cuss: I have tinnitus to this day. :banghead: :banghead:
 
Shot my TV once, long time ago...had been practicing drawing from carry and dfiring one click with an early Colt .32 Auto.

Reholstered it, done with practice, figuring to go to 7-11 for some Cat Food and Cigarettes, ended up procrastinating, and after a little while, thought to resume practice a time or two, only I had of course re-inserted the Magazine and chambered a round for Carry, in the mean time.

That was a valuable instruction...Lol...
 
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Dissassembled my IZH-35 target pistol. It had a nice, one-piece anatomic Walther grip. Had just got the grip off the frame, when the phone rang in another room. I stood up, and since my workbench was full of stuff, I laid the grip on the chair. Came back, and sat right on the grip. CRUNCH! Had to buy a new Morini grip, which isn't half as nice looking as the Walther, and doesn't even fit my hand well.
 
how about driving 30 min to the range to find I grabbed the .22's instead of the .45's!!
both winchester white box (bulk 22's and 100 box of 45's, almost same size!!)
 
ever get halfway to to the end of the driveway to go skeet shooting with friends and realize you've forgotten the thrower
 
While driving home after shooting for a couple of hours with a friend, he called me on my cell and told me I had left something at the range. From my blissful, post-Model 14 fog, I asked him what it was. He said "Me, you ***hole!"

Those annoying, wonderful cell phones have saved me many, many miles of driving over the years.
 
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Like......spill a whole bottle of Hoppes #9 onto the bed in the bedroom. Thank God I own a pickup truck. I battled the clock getting rid of the mattress and box spring, purchasing and installing a new set and airing out the bedroom. My wife's first comment was "ah, been cleaning one of your guns, eh". My answer was "yeah, it took me a little bit longer than usual this time though". :cool:
 
Okay guys, I could really post some stuff that would embarrass me to the point of never returning here again, but I'll just tell you this one.

...like the time I killed an elk in the backcountry and left Dad there to dress it out. I hiked out (several mountainous miles), to move the pickup to the nearest trailhead. Now... I hadn't driven a stick in years, so I had to hike all the way back in to where Dad was, and tell him that it just wouldn't start. It wouldn't turn over, no click, nothing, but there's plenty of juice in the batteries for sure.

He asked, "Did you push in the clutch?". :banghead:doh!!
 
When I was a kid I learned the hard way that an empty cigarette pack wouldn't stop a BB. BB went through the Pall Mall pack, and hit my kid sister in the back. Like most kid sisters, the pain didn't register until she went in the house to tell Mom. THEN she cried like she was being skinned alive. Lost the gun for a month for that one.

On a lighter note.

Leaned over the bow of my bass boat to hook the winch strap to the bow eye, and watched my cell phone fall out of my front pocket into the river.

We won't even talk about thermos bottles on the roofs of cars.
 
I've got 2 cell phones and a pager in the river where I slip my boat, and I'm sure that there will be another there someday, as I almost put my phone in again last summer, stayed on the dock though.
 
Okay guys, I could really post some stuff that would embarrass me to the point of never returning here again, but I'll just tell you this one.

...like the time I killed an elk in the backcountry and left Dad there to dress it out. I hiked out (several mountainous miles), to move the pickup to the nearest trailhead. Now... I hadn't driven a stick in years, so I had to hike all the way back in to where Dad was, and tell him that it just wouldn't start. It wouldn't turn over, no click, nothing, but there's plenty of juice in the batteries for sure.

He asked, "Did you push in the clutch?". doh!!
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I can remember back in 96, my Grandma had a brand new Bonneville SSEI supercharged. My Dad and I were taking it to the store, just for an excuse to drive it. I'll betcha it took him a SOLID 10 minutes of fumbling with the keys and the gear shift before he finally saw the little text near the gear shift indicator reading "PRESS BRAKE TO MOVE FROM PARK"
 
Going deer hunting on a buddies family farm, I awoke, made coffee and biscuits, he showed up, I threw my rifle and ammo bag in the back, we headed forty minutes out, got there and went to load my .30-30, and realized I had brough an ammo bag full of .22. At least I had biscuits and coffee.
 
Like install one of those off-brand twitchy extended mag releases for your 1911, accidently, lightly "bump" it with your forarm while reaching for your wallet, eject that shiny Wilson combat mag, catch it before it falls from under your shirt, fumble it and have your girlfriend accidently kick it while bumping heads trying to catch it only to have it slide 20 feet across the floor at walmart? Then try to sheepishly find it since it ran between a sea of ankles in the checkout lines?:eek:

Or shoot at too high of an angle while dove hunting with the mule-kicking single shot 12 gauge your father was training you on, only to knock yourself off the bucket?

Nope, never done anything of the sort.

Lessons learned:
1. Sometimes it is better to let falling objects fall and then retrieve them.
2. If you aim too high before you've properly prepared yourself, you may find yourself on your butt.:banghead:
 
The antis surfing this thread have some new ammo for their monthly mailer...

The dumb thing I'll own up to was dunking my P01 and Crimson Trace Lasergrips in an UNUSED public toilet. Took three days of drying to get them back, but the Lasergrips work great to this day!
 
1. Sometimes it is better to let falling objects fall and then retrieve them.
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I dropped a carving knife and grabbed for it as it fell. I now have a nice horizontal scar on my right index finger. Gives an otherwise ordinary fingerprint a big of flair.
 
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Yup it certainly counts...I managed to do that once with the mags for an semi-auto rifle. I was just pulling into the range when it dawned on me that I left the mags in my other range bag... :banghead:
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That's when you look at your cell phone and loudly proclaim "Sh*t, just got a text message from work, gotta go..."

So I've heard...:D
 
More, recently...

I was assembling my first ar. I managed to lose the spring that holds the detent for the rear takedown pin by the buffer tube. It shot away to who knows where in my garage. While chit chatting at my friendly neighborhood shooting supply store, the guy working gave me one of these as a freebie. Cool! I went straight home and carefully installed it with ease (this time). Then I realized I was a complete dolt for not putting the pin in as the hole was empty, with the detent sticking through. Well I loosened the nut, the collar moved before I could grab it and "boooooing." :cuss: Now there are two somewhere in my garage. :banghead: I've been all over that floor and workbench, they're still MIA.

The guy did me a solid by giving me the spring. The only AR-ish thing I had bought from there was a unassembled lower several years ago. Now I feel too stupid to go back and offer to buy another $1 spring. I'll wait until I buy something else from them and ask to buy another spring for, er...uh...a "different" AR project. :eek:
 
...leave your stirring rod in the lead melting pot and forgetting about it.

Took three days of drying to get them back, but the Lasergrips work great to this day!
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Wait, so a simple dunk in a toilet put the lasergrips out of commission for three days???


Count me out then...
 
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My standard one is keeping a cell phone in a shirt pocket and having it fall out when I bend over... like into a toilet, lake, or creek. Have not done this with firearms or accessories that I recall, but it could easily happen depending how the firearm or accessory is stored.
 
Only thing I can think of close to these was recently I didn't receive my Census Form when it should have come; wanting conscientiously to be a good citizen I requested a form via the telephone. Received the new form and put it on the bumper of my Jeep with other mail to be brought into the house later. Drove off....and found it a couple of hours later on my return about 1/2 mile down the road...a little chewed up. Obviously, I can't vouch for my subconscious leanings regarding the Census:evil:

For the two who posted they had left bolts behind while going to the range....what are the bolts doing out of the rifles? Yeah, I understand removal for cleaning, but I put mine back in right away?????
 
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