How many of you done something stupid?

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Due to jer1949's story I am writing my stupid report with aching sides:D

I have shot a 9mm in a Sig P226 .40 S&W (a 9mm got into my 40 reloads)

I misread a powder label. Universal Clays is not the same as International Clays. Lucky the only thing that was damaged was a split .45ACP case.

I could have killed a friend. My buddy in college wanted to go trap shooting and brought me his dad's old 1897 Winchester to look at.
Mistake #1: I am not a gunsmith. Mistake #2: I chambered a round indoors and it went off. The only good thing is that I was pointing the gun in a safe direction, the ceiling. I took apart the gun and it was disgusting. After a one hour cleaning session the gun has continued on to give years of good service.
 
...tried the "death hunt" shotgun hold charles bronsen style with a singleshot 10 gauge..that shotgun sat on the ground for nearly a week before I could bring myself to go back in the woods and get it.
 
Well, I admit i was once an active bb gun fighter, me and a couple of friends used to do this when we were like 12 or 13, we had the one pump rule, cant believe noone ever got hurt.. Ok heres my really stupid story, I was only about 5 or six so thats my exuse. I was in my grandfathers basement, he was on the second floor watching grand ole opera on high volume(thank god). I managed to come up with a .22 lr bullet and a chissel. I eagerly worked away trying to chip the bullet out of the casing, and all of a sudden, BANG!!! I dont know where the bullet went, but i was sitting on the floor with it between my legs so I was very lucky i didnt shoot myself. He never even heard it but i had a guilty conscience for a long, long time.
 
While on my aunt's farm (about 20 years ago) I had my own 'shooting range' by a long dead uncle's homestead..... I had an H&R 12ga single shot cut down (ie 18 1/2" barrel with a cut down stock for an overall length of 29"). I shot not one but two 3" magnum buckshot loads at a target 10 yards away from the hip:what: :eek: :eek: :eek: . Through the resultant tears I saw I had hit the target but I walked like Marshall Dillion's side-kick for about a month:uhoh: .

kjeff50cal
 
This stupid thing I did wasn't with a handgun but I was shooting a rifle like a handgun so it should count. My "buddy" bet me that I couldn't shoot my H&R Handi Rifle 45/70 with a synthetic stock one handed and hold on to the gun. I lost the bet, my pride and almost my trigger finger as the rifle sailed behind me into the dirt. STUPID
 
Well, I did shoot my brother with a BB gun in the leg. Great shot, he was running. Went down like a sack of potatoes.
But when I was 15 or so I wanted to clean my Nylon 66. So I remove the barrel, then the bolt handle with pliers and the reciever cover and give it a good cleaning. I go to put it back together and can't get the bolt handle back in. I try and try, but it just won't go. So I get just a bit frustrated and try with a hammer. Needled to say, I finally got a new bolt handle and fixed it a couple of years ago (almost 20 years later).
I've been at a dump and have put one of my .22's on a canoe rack (with canoe) and have driven home without it falling off.
I've sprayed a red-hot M60 with WD-40.....FIRE!!!!
I've grabbed a red-hot M60 barrel with my bare hand.....HOTHOTHOT!
And I've had the same M60 cook off a stuck round into my leg when I opened the cover and feed tray (caught the base of the case in my thigh)
All that within one hour. Not fun at the range that day.
Live and Learn.
 
I shot my brother too. The second time I had to lead him further. Other stupid things will remain confidential. Happy New Year.
Jim
 
Bad thing last year...

I was friends with a neighbor; an older woman whose husband had died a while back... not close friends but I stopped by occiasionally to help her and talk politics with her...she was a good neighbor... I did some housework for her... she called me repeatedly last year in September but my business travel prevented an immediate call back..:mad:

Turns out she sold a few guns to a pawn shop and was offering them to me first... one of the guns was a mint Colt 45LC revolver wrapped in rags that I had seen earlier... turns out pawn shop offered her $100 for it! :uhoh:

Gone was purchased from pawn shop almost immediately! :fire:

Just run me over with a truck!
 
when i was 17 and in highschool I had borrowed my mothers car, we had gone shooting that weekend with the SG's and didnt take them out of the car...me not knowing this drove the car to school and parked on school grounds:uhoh:

so when school lets out I open the back hatch on the tahoe and see 3 870's sitting there in open cases... had a :eek: look on my face...quickly threw my stuff in the car and hauled ass out of there....

I could of been arrested, and expelled, lost my scholarship all over
"Zero Tolerence"

about the dumbest thing I have ever done...even though I hadn't known the guns were in the car.

Chad
 
Some years ago I was working up around Havre Montana, construction work, I had a few rifles with me and found out about a gun club in the area, I had little time off, but the time I had I wanted to spend at the range, I bought a membership to the club,,very reasonable by the way,,,like $10.00

My first day off I located the range with the help of a map I had recieved on joining the club, I had with me a Mark 5 Weatherby in .257 mag. a favorite .270 and a fine little Kimber Super American in .22 LR
I arrived early, enjoyed the range facilitys, shot to my hearts content, was carrying my rifles in cases to my truck when the man I had bought my membership arrived, I sat my stuff down,,we visited for a spell, I turned and walked off, got in my truck and was almost to Havre when it dawned on me that I had left all of them at the range....drove like he!! the 20 miles back to the range, there was a lot of grining faces when I pulled up, I said, you boys hear about that man who lost his A$$,,that was me.....They assured me my rifles were safe and I would have gotten them back as soon as they could have found out where I was staying...Super nice people up around Havre Montana!!
 
I certainly can qualify for a stupidity award. A couple of weeks ago I changed magazines on two carry guns. The other day, I was installing new grips on one and before doing so, I dropped the magazine. It was empty. So was the chamber. I'd been carrying an empty gun for two weeks. Apparently, when changing magazines, I installed an empty.

Me thinks it may be time to carry a revolver.
 
WEll can't beat most posted here. (thank goodness)
I would comment that treating every gun (in house as KNOWN to be unloaded) or some such is not a good idea.
The only way is for EVERY gun to be loaded. (at least treated that way) I don't care if I am home alone and clean a gun. I WILL check to make sure it is unloaded after I reassemble it and before I test (dry) fire it.
That said I did have one go off in friends basement. (just recalled) He is DANG good shot. He reworked trigger on Hi-standard (old gun) and wanted me to check out trigger pull. As you do not dry fire .22 rimfire I passed. He insisted and grabs a (fired) .22 shell and loads into gun and hands it to me. I make comment "if this thing goes off YOU will have to buy your wife a new washer" Gently touch trigger and BLAM (ears ring and only sound is his wife yelling/screaming and rushing down stairs/ yelling at me who is holding a gun on her washer. Yep he loaded a blank. (homemade useing a primed .22 shell) No damage to washer and I didn't go back over there.
 
Other than getting married twice, I can't think of anything stupid I've done with a firearm.

But then my general rule is, any firearm I intend to use for self-defence is ALWAYS loaded. And of course, I just treat every firearm as if it is loaded, whether I "think" it's unloaded or not.

I gotta add though, that trick with the tazer had me me "disabled" with laughter for at least 10 minutes.

:D
 
Was carrying my 1911 OWB and forgot to put my jacket on when going in to lunch.

Spent an hour in Chilis sitting with the thing showing to the world.

No one even noticed. I was outside standing by the car when I realized.

Funny that people truly don't notice. I quit worrying about "printing" from that moment on.
 
TexasSIGman said:
Was carrying my 1911 OWB and forgot to put my jacket on when going in to lunch.

Spent an hour in Chilis sitting with the thing showing to the world.

No one even noticed. I was outside standing by the car when I realized.

Funny that people truly don't notice. I quit worrying about "printing" from that moment on.
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Not to sound like a stupid newbie or anything but...what is "printing"?
 
MedGrl said:
Not to sound like a stupid newbie or anything but...what is "printing"?
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Printing is what people that are new to carrying worry about. Everyone thinks that the average joe on the street sees that big lump under their shirt and automatically knows its a gun.

A tight shirt or something "prints" the outline of your concealed gun.

As I said, I no longer worry about it. The sheeple just don't notice.
 
TexasSIGman said:
Was carrying my 1911 OWB and forgot to put my jacket on when going in to lunch.

Spent an hour in Chilis sitting with the thing showing to the world.

No one even noticed. I was outside standing by the car when I realized.

Funny that people truly don't notice. I quit worrying about "printing" from that moment on.
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Unless they've changed the CHL law in Texas, I WOULD worry about printing all the time!!!

But that's just me. ;)
 
My stupid move...BB gun wars from childhood. My brother was going thru this phase of being a real jerk. Always wanted to fight, even tho I usually beat him

so, we're in the barn. I had just gotten a spring powered pistol BB gun and I'm carrying it in a holster, western cowboy style. I'm going to the end of a long alley way and he shoots me in the back of the leg with a real high powered BB gun of his own

In my best gunfighter imitation, I wheel around and shoot from the hip. He starts screaming and grabs his face. I hit him right where the bridge of his nose meets his forehead

Needless to say, that was our last BB gun fight
 
Oh, where to start.........here's a couple..

I once confused a S&W 686 for a 5-shot revolver. Click, Click, Click, Click, BOOM! is not what you want to hear. Lodged a 125gr. Speer Gold Dot in a post on my front porch after it passed over my dog's head and through an exterior wall.

Tried to assemble a Glock 35 slide and barrel onto a Glock 27 frame.....on purpose. That took a while to fix.

Did some home polishing on the trigger group of a Glock 17 and thought it would really help the trigger to take a little off the back fo the trigger bar. It helped alright....helped make it full-auto. The next IDPA match was VERY interesting through the first stage.

Not gun-related, but I was trimming the fiberglass surround in our bathroom with a Cold Steel XL Voyager with a fully serrated blade and a tanto point. The blade slipped and I ended up going to the ER for 13 stitches that started about 1/2" below my right eye and ended on top of my bottom eyelid. The opthalmologist I saw the next day for a follow up said another 1/16th of an inch and she would have been sewing my eyeball up. I always wear safety glasses now.

Did you know that when you hold the palm of your hand about 6" away from the muzzle of an Airsoft pistol, the pellet has plenty of velocity to sting and bruise your hand? Don't ask.....


W
 
Sorry to super bump this but...

...this is my first post, and a good place to confess.

15+ years ago I shot through a car window while sitting inside of it. It was a junk car on private land but still a very stupid act. Glass went all over me and it was pretty loud.

My first .22 semi was a Jennings that would go full-auto after only a few magazines of ammo. No lie, the stupid thing would spray 6-7 rounds in less than half a second. No accuracy though. It has also discharged while loading one into the chamber and nearly hit my foot. It now stays in it's box in the gun safe.

For the longest time I shot 9mm Luger balls, hollow points, and .38 Super +P's out of a Star Model AS. I can't believe I'm not dead. It shot it all and only jammed on the hps. Honest to goodness it shoots the +P's more accurately than the Largos it was designed for. I took that gun to 4 different gun shows looking for help and advice. I got a different story every time.

Also, my mom once shot a hole in her bed because she swore Rossi .38 Specials had half-cocked hammer safeties. My brother and I knew better - we ran and hid in the bathroom :p
 
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