How many of you done something stupid?

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How many of you done something stupid with your guns? Hey, we are all human and we make mistakes, right? The most stupid thing I've done was one day me and my wife went out to pick up our checks, pay bills, shop ect... all day long I was packing a empty gun. There was another time I went all day without a mag in my gun. :eek:
 
I must say I've never done anything like that. But, I did respond to an early morning house burglary call with another officer who forgot his duty gun. This was around 10 am. Luckly, the call was false. But, for the past three hours this other officer was working a marked cruiser without his gun in his holster. How an officer can forget his duty gun is beyond me.:eek:Now that's stupid!
 
I'll take the plunge.

Alrighty then, I'll be your first to 'fess up. My most recent (thankfully all non boom related) was a few weeks ago. Running errands, saw no need to wear anything other than my coat over my pistol since I didn't plan on taking my coat off until I got home. But... while shopping for the wife's Christmas presents I run into a friend who wants to go into a nearby coffee joint for a cup of joe. I got kinda warm drinking coffee in a heated building wearing my coat.
 
Not me - but...

My wife took a shot at me with her 9mm slide. She had finished cleaning the gun and put it back together. She wasn't pointing it right at me, but in my general direction (unloaded, no magazine in, of course). She pulled the slide back and let go to check the operation. She forgot to return the take-down lever to the normal position and the slide springs right off the front of the gun and into my lap. :uhoh: She swears it was an "accident" :scrutiny:
 
Not me either but...

I watched my great uncle pretend to shoot my Aunt with a .22 rifle, only to have it discharge when he put down popping a hole in the ceiling coving, she was pi$$ed when she thought it was un-loaded, after it went off I don't think she spoke to him for a month!!!

They've both passed away now so it's now a well told family story.
 
Several years ago, I was zeroing in a rifle at the range with some buddies and we ran out of 30-06 ammo. My bad, I hopped in the truck, Wally World is only five miles away and bought a couple of boxes. Made it safely back to the range, hopped out of the truck and realized my Colt 1911 was strapped securely to my hip. Which is where it had been the entire trip.

No, open carry in Massachusetts is not legal...
 
In 1972, needing money, I sold my python for $125 and my pre-64 M70 (.264 mag) for $110.:banghead: Now that was stupid. A year later, my Ithaca M37 20 ga. went for $125. Didn't learn from the first time. Still stupid.:banghead:
 
shermacman said:
Several years ago, I was zeroing in a rifle at the range with some buddies and we ran out of 30-06 ammo. My bad, I hopped in the truck, Wally World is only five miles away and bought a couple of boxes. Made it safely back to the range, hopped out of the truck and realized my Colt 1911 was strapped securely to my hip. Which is where it had been the entire trip.

No, open carry in Massachusetts is not legal...
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Now that's funny, bet you had a serious OMG moment.
 
But, for the past three hours this other officer was working a marked cruiser without his gun in his holster. How an officer can forget his duty gun is beyond me.Now that's stupid!

Well-----------almost made it to court one morning without my sidearm. Worked allnight the night before and only went home to change uniforms to class A. I carry a different sidearm for dress, I changed my ASP, Spray, and radio over and walked out the door. About halfway to the courthouse, I reached down to check my thumb break, WOW! No gun! Flipped on the blues and made a "U" turn! Went home and picked up my Pro Carry. Still had an 870in the rack and an AR in the trunk tho!!
Felt pretty strange------------!
str1
 
AMT go BOOM

I was down in Oklahoma and took a fellow flight student out to an outdoor area to shoot pistol. He’d never handled a gun before so went over the basic safety routine and then moved the conversation along to features of the particular gun we were going to shoot, my AMT Longslide Hardballer. I chambered a round and flipped the safety up with my thumb and realized that I hadn’t discussed the thumb safety lever. “The gun won’t fire with the safety on” I said and pulled the trigger. BOOM! (and let me tell you, a .45 is freaking loud when you haven’t put your ear muffs on yet) The safety lever sheared off and is still somewhere in Okalahoma (or one of the surrounding states). I was pointing the pistol downrange at the time so no harm from the projectile but I was very disturbed by this turn of events. AMT fixed the gun for free, even overnighted the parts. The gunsmith told me that individually all the parts were “in spec” but they were all at the lower limit of the spec and the combination somehow led to the hammer dropping when it was not supposed to. I’m sure some 1911 expert can comment on this. In retrospect I prolly should have done that demo with the gun unloaded.
 
dumb things with guns

I shot my brother in the keister with a BB gun when we were kids. Did not break skin, but shot that attitude I was getting right down. Unsafe practice four sure, but he was not so cocky after that, not at all.

I sent a BB into my leg as a kid, didn't penetrate the skin, but still hurt and was a valuable lesson.

Some kids had BB gun fights as kids, they all wore safety glasses (which isn't bad for teenagers) but it was still pretty dumb. I never participated, only heard about it. Now all those folks are avid paintballers. This was actually about the time paintball was in it's infancy. Suspect this is what they would do now, know I would.

jeepmor
 
he he. Shooting buckshot out of my 870 at the range. Had the target out at 10 yards and thought, hey, why not try a round or two from the hip. Boom. Let me tell you, those baffles make an interesting noise when you shoot them. Missed the target completely. Needless to say that was the first and only time I have tried that at a range.
 
Gonna dry fire my S&W 66. I opened the cylinder, turned it over, and ejected the rounds. Aimed it at the floor and pulled the trigger as I walked into the living room. 5 clicks, and one BOOM(didn't look in the cylinder after ejecting the rounds, one had hung up.) Dog disappears. I think 'holy crap I just shot my dog.' Hole in floor, dog is ok, but to this day, 6 years later, when she sees me with a wheel gun she is GONE:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Kevin
 
I shot myself in the foot with a BB gun as a kid to see how bad it would hurt. It hurt bad.
 
14 years old, was shooting at a crow in the yard. used the deck as a rest, barrel didnt clear the deck but i couldnt tell through the scope. so now there is a hole in the deck where the 22 passed through it:p
 
I had an Uncle stupid enough to start messing around with a malfunctioning Mini-14 after half a bottle of Wild Turkey. And I was stupid enough to be not only with him but bending over the rifle studying it intently when he just decided to switch off the safety and pull the trigger. We were in a small trailer, about 8x10 feet, and the rifle had a muzzle brake. The .22 caliber hole an inch away from my left big toe wasn't even the thing that concerned me the most--it was the instant headache, the ringing in my ears that persisted for a day or two, and the fact I couldn't hear out of my right ear for 12 hours or so. I am glad it wasn't permanent, that I didn't have any new holes in me, and you can bet I won't associate so readily with drunk people messing around with firearms.

Other than that I have been stupid enough to touch off a couple 12 gauge bird shot loads with my brother perpendicular to the muzzle when we were out running around chasing Saber Toothed Timber Tigers, but have fortunately never been lax or foolish enough to put a hole through the house, myself, or someone else.
 
Locked myself out of my house last night.

I had come home from work and changed out of my work slacks and into a
pair of jeans, sat around the house for a while then decided to go to the
store. Locked the doorknob lock behind me, closed the door, reached into
my front pocket for the keys to lock the dead bolt and :what: never took
the keys out of my other pants.

To keep it gun related I was shooting cans on a string as a kid with my BB
gun and decided to set a few on the swing set. The first BB hit below the
can on the crossbar of the swing set and bounced back breaking the back
porch light :uhoh: . I went back to shooting cans on a string.
 
Golf balls don't make very good BB gun targets. If you hit them square, I swear the BB comes back faster than it left! (Painful learning experience.)

When I was 11 or 12 my brothers and I found a shotgun shell in the field behind our house. Probably lost by a dove hunter. Anyway, after we had cut the thing open, played with the shot and burned the powder I told the other two that I could pop the primer with my pellet gun. I lay the thing on the edge of our porch and stepped back about 15 feet. They didn't think I could do it. I stood still, took careful aim with my trusty Crosman 760 and let fly with a BB (pellets were too expensive for this). The BB struck true and the primer went off! My elation only lasted the length of time it took for the primer cup to fly back and nail me in the side. (More painful learing experience.) A shotgun primer cup will penetrate a shirt and the burn is not pleasant. I show my kids the scar when I see them heading into Stupidville.
 
I was BS'iing at the range with a bunch of guys a few years ago. We had shot a match and walked out to the vehicles. I took my 1911 off and set it on the pickup truck hood, put my other stuff in the truck and BS'd until after dark. I drove about 10 miles before I remembered it was on the hood. I slowly stopped, and there it was, still sitting where I left it. The only think I can figure is that the pachmayer rubber grips kind of held it to the hood a little. :what:
 
Back in my misspent youth a bunch of guys my age (about 12 to 15 years old) got the bright idea of taping the butt of a 22 round to the end of a BB gun's barrel. The BBs did set off the 22 round but accuracy wasn't too great. Then they decided to try a high powered round (don't remember what caliber). Fortunately, I did convince them that although 22 casing would withstand pressures of being fired in open air, a centerfire cartridge's casing would rupture.

I don't want to bore y'all with another story about a hole in my kitchen ceiling.
 
One day I discovered that I was carrying 357sig ammo in a gun with a 40S&W barrel in it. :eek: :eek:

Lesson learned, if you have multiple barrels for the same gun, always compare the ammo in the mag to the stamping on the barrel before you gear up.
 
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