A few years ago I was helping my daughter pack up her belongings and the 1st pistol I picked up in her den, a very small area with poor lighting, I removed the magazine and drew the slide back with the Muzzle pointing down and had a good view of the empty chamber as I drew the slide rearward, I caught sight of what I can only describe as a flicker of brass as I released the slide.
I then drew the slide rearward in curiosity to find a .22 cal. L R cartridge extracted from the chamber!
I have taught the Canadian rule of checking the Chamber and then the Loading Path for 20 + years, but this close quartets setting I had not done that and who knows if that would have revealed the cartridge that dropped from the Bolt face right down into the chamber?
I then thought of a very good friend who claimed he cleared his pistol at the range and at home he stated he again checked the Sccy 9mm prior to cleaning it and to break this pistol down like others the striker/hammer needs to be released and when he pulled the trigger the pistol discharged and the bullet ricochet back and hit him mid-calf and exited his ankle.
He was/is so shook up over this incident that he hasn't been able to rationalize what went wrong, but we did a bit of testing and by slowly drawing the slide back with muzzle down a cartridge will drop right down Into the chamber.
I had never read any warnings about this, however MCARBO includes in their safety protocol to check chamber and "Bolt Face", so maybe they are aware of this?
Gregor, CGVS
I then drew the slide rearward in curiosity to find a .22 cal. L R cartridge extracted from the chamber!
I have taught the Canadian rule of checking the Chamber and then the Loading Path for 20 + years, but this close quartets setting I had not done that and who knows if that would have revealed the cartridge that dropped from the Bolt face right down into the chamber?
I then thought of a very good friend who claimed he cleared his pistol at the range and at home he stated he again checked the Sccy 9mm prior to cleaning it and to break this pistol down like others the striker/hammer needs to be released and when he pulled the trigger the pistol discharged and the bullet ricochet back and hit him mid-calf and exited his ankle.
He was/is so shook up over this incident that he hasn't been able to rationalize what went wrong, but we did a bit of testing and by slowly drawing the slide back with muzzle down a cartridge will drop right down Into the chamber.
I had never read any warnings about this, however MCARBO includes in their safety protocol to check chamber and "Bolt Face", so maybe they are aware of this?
Gregor, CGVS