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How many times have you dropped a firearm?
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BlueHeelerFl
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Years ago while cleaning a Browning Buckmark I dropped it while trying to reassemble it. It took the worse possible fall and parts went everywhere.
It's still in parts since life got very hectic right after that and I got out of shooting for several years
It's still in parts since life got very hectic right after that and I got out of shooting for several years
Happens all the time in Basic.Yet load that weapon and nope, extremely rare at a range or on duty. We are supposed to treat every gun as if it is loaded yet we don't, and if we think it isn't, negligent incidents go up.
:As mentioned, on deployment with other soldiers, you see it all the time. I never did working with Reservist MP's, half of us were civilian LEO in some capacity. Live guns all day long in a holster seem to stop most of it. This is why Basic changed up and soldiers were issued their weapons for the duration - immersion learning.
A generation of us got to sleep with our Red Ryders and we quickly learned to keep a grip on it or suffer the dreaded dent in the tube.
:As mentioned, on deployment with other soldiers, you see it all the time. I never did working with Reservist MP's, half of us were civilian LEO in some capacity. Live guns all day long in a holster seem to stop most of it. This is why Basic changed up and soldiers were issued their weapons for the duration - immersion learning.
A generation of us got to sleep with our Red Ryders and we quickly learned to keep a grip on it or suffer the dreaded dent in the tube.
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I've never dropped one, but the wife did once.
Old Dog
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I must be a big, clumsy klutz compared to most members posting. I've had several inadvertent "drops" throughout my lifetime (which, since I was 21 years old involves a life spent carrying and training with handguns and long guns in a professional capacity, days or weeks on end with very often little sleep). I'm not making any excuses, but anyone know any career mechanics who've never dropped a tool?
bob97
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At the range, rarely. Hunting, almost every year.
huntsman
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The only gun I can remember dropping is my LCP, more than once.
the drops come when I’m hanging up my shorts and gun is in pocket.
nothing has happened and usually it’s about 3’ or more off floor.
the drops come when I’m hanging up my shorts and gun is in pocket.
nothing has happened and usually it’s about 3’ or more off floor.
Howland937
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Not a fair comparison unless your experiences included greasy hands firearms training
My ratchet discipline is nowhere near the level of my trigger discipline. I've yet to lose a firearm but I did in fact lose a $150 Snap-On ratchet just a week or so ago. Last job on a Friday before vacation.
Old Dog
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Water, sweat and blood count?Not a fair comparison unless your experiences included greasy hands firearms training
WestKentucky
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Dropped implies accidental so I will say twice. I have thrown more than I have dropped. First was a shotgun I dropped when I slipped in wet grass turkey hunting. Broke the stock at the wrist.
Second was a revolver. Funny story… it’s been told here but it’s been a while. I had my concealed permit and was carrying. It was my first date with my wife after a short breakup. Lunch disagreed with me and I had some gut rumble going. We stopped at a craft store and I rushed to the restroom and luckily just beat the cleaning cart going in. I got in the stall and as I got into position the revolver came out of the IWB holster and bounced off of my toe and skittered over to the next stall. No big deal, it was empty. So pants loosely held up but fully exposed I shuffled out of the stall and over to the next… as the door opened, and as I picked up the gun…I locked eyes (and shining butt) with a pretty girl about 16 years old pushing the cart. I did my business and walked out to find the cleaning cart outside waiting with the cute girl impatiently and anxiously waiting in front of the MENS restroom across the hall. I just went to the car and waited after that. Bless that girls heart.
Second was a revolver. Funny story… it’s been told here but it’s been a while. I had my concealed permit and was carrying. It was my first date with my wife after a short breakup. Lunch disagreed with me and I had some gut rumble going. We stopped at a craft store and I rushed to the restroom and luckily just beat the cleaning cart going in. I got in the stall and as I got into position the revolver came out of the IWB holster and bounced off of my toe and skittered over to the next stall. No big deal, it was empty. So pants loosely held up but fully exposed I shuffled out of the stall and over to the next… as the door opened, and as I picked up the gun…I locked eyes (and shining butt) with a pretty girl about 16 years old pushing the cart. I did my business and walked out to find the cleaning cart outside waiting with the cute girl impatiently and anxiously waiting in front of the MENS restroom across the hall. I just went to the car and waited after that. Bless that girls heart.
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On the very first morning of a mule deer hunting trip I sat my Marlin 336 butt on the ground and leaned it against my tailgate. I turned to pick up my pack and canteen and the rifle slid and fell over onto the ground. The reticle in my cheap Simmons scope broke. The rifle wasn’t loaded and wasn’t hurt but the scope was a goner.
I was trying out a cheaply made, but not cheaply priced ankle holster with my S&W 442. I was walking across a parking lot and just as a I stepped into the grass my revolver went scooting across the grass. I would have really been mad had my gun come out of the holster on the pavement. I retrieved my 442, removed the holster and cut it into pieces and threw it away.
Once I launched a Ruger Vaquero across the room while performing a gun spinning maneuver a la Johnny Ringo in “Tombstone”. It hit the easy chair and bounced onto the carpet. Perhaps I should have practiced with a tin cup instead.
There have been many times that I have slipped or stumbled where I managed not to drop a gun. A couple were quite memorable, but those are for another thread with a subject line conveying “not dropping a gun when you probably should have”, or something like that.
I was trying out a cheaply made, but not cheaply priced ankle holster with my S&W 442. I was walking across a parking lot and just as a I stepped into the grass my revolver went scooting across the grass. I would have really been mad had my gun come out of the holster on the pavement. I retrieved my 442, removed the holster and cut it into pieces and threw it away.
Once I launched a Ruger Vaquero across the room while performing a gun spinning maneuver a la Johnny Ringo in “Tombstone”. It hit the easy chair and bounced onto the carpet. Perhaps I should have practiced with a tin cup instead.
There have been many times that I have slipped or stumbled where I managed not to drop a gun. A couple were quite memorable, but those are for another thread with a subject line conveying “not dropping a gun when you probably should have”, or something like that.
gnappi
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Dropped a loaded gun? Never. Coming out of the safe snugly in its case, twice.
BTW, gun makers don't make guns safe(er) to drop, their attorneys do
BTW, gun makers don't make guns safe(er) to drop, their attorneys do
Choctaw
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Once. I picked up my son's rifle case and it wasn't zipped. The AR (unloaded) dropped out and fell squarely on the scope. No damage was done but I was annoyed.
bassjam
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I've leaned a shotgun up against a tree to take a leak while hunting and had it tip over more times than I can count. I always empty the chamber if it's a double, and pull back the slide if it's a pump, but I still jump a little if the gun happens to fall in my direction!
I can remember two times with other guns. Once was my P938, I was on the pot (there seems to be a theme here) and was standing up and pulling up my pants when my arm hit the sink next to me and the SIG when sprawling from it's holster onto the tile floor. While I was sitting there contemplating what happened I noticed the safety was off which scared me enough that I haven't carried that gun since, as I'm positive the safety was on when I holstered the gun earlier that day. Did the safety flip off while in the holster, or did the fall somehow knock it loose? Both seem unlikely, so who knows.
The other time was just last week, I'd been out wade fishing all day with my LCP in my pocket. Got home and was dog tired but dissembled the lcp and ran everything under tap water to clean it, drenched it in wd40, wiped all the wd40 with solvent, re-oiled and reassembled, loaded it and took it upstairs to put in the bedside safe when I dropped it by the bed. I realized 2 things: I was too tired to be handling a loaded gun, and I was very thankful I had found a dry pocket holster to put in in before carrying it because my instinct was to catch the gun.
Nope, I just remembered another time I dropped a gun! I was 16 and had just gotten my 12ga 870 express. Before that the largest guns I'd fired was .22's and a 20ga at Scout camp taking the clay shooting merit bade. I had a pocket full of Remington sluggers to get ready for deer season. Spoiler, I didn't realize that slugs kicked more than birdshot. So I casually put the gun to my shoulder, pulled the trigger and dropped the gun in the mud from the painful sting in my shoulder!!!! At the time I just thought that was the difference between how a 20ga and 12ga kicked, so much so that I avoided shooting clays with a buddy and his family when he invited me later that fall. I had barely made it through 10 slugs to sight in the gun, I KNEW I'd never make it through the 50 or so rounds of 8 shot my buddy told me to bring!
I can remember two times with other guns. Once was my P938, I was on the pot (there seems to be a theme here) and was standing up and pulling up my pants when my arm hit the sink next to me and the SIG when sprawling from it's holster onto the tile floor. While I was sitting there contemplating what happened I noticed the safety was off which scared me enough that I haven't carried that gun since, as I'm positive the safety was on when I holstered the gun earlier that day. Did the safety flip off while in the holster, or did the fall somehow knock it loose? Both seem unlikely, so who knows.
The other time was just last week, I'd been out wade fishing all day with my LCP in my pocket. Got home and was dog tired but dissembled the lcp and ran everything under tap water to clean it, drenched it in wd40, wiped all the wd40 with solvent, re-oiled and reassembled, loaded it and took it upstairs to put in the bedside safe when I dropped it by the bed. I realized 2 things: I was too tired to be handling a loaded gun, and I was very thankful I had found a dry pocket holster to put in in before carrying it because my instinct was to catch the gun.
Nope, I just remembered another time I dropped a gun! I was 16 and had just gotten my 12ga 870 express. Before that the largest guns I'd fired was .22's and a 20ga at Scout camp taking the clay shooting merit bade. I had a pocket full of Remington sluggers to get ready for deer season. Spoiler, I didn't realize that slugs kicked more than birdshot. So I casually put the gun to my shoulder, pulled the trigger and dropped the gun in the mud from the painful sting in my shoulder!!!! At the time I just thought that was the difference between how a 20ga and 12ga kicked, so much so that I avoided shooting clays with a buddy and his family when he invited me later that fall. I had barely made it through 10 slugs to sight in the gun, I KNEW I'd never make it through the 50 or so rounds of 8 shot my buddy told me to bring!
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I remember going to put mine on the mantle for the night and I dropped it, I remember reaching out to try to catch it then recoiling my hand back. I figured it’s was safer to let it hit the floor than risk hitting the trigger while catching it.
It seems like their have been other times but I can’t really recall them at the moment.
It seems like their have been other times but I can’t really recall them at the moment.
Just dropped one the other night. Unloaded a 38 special and set it on the edge of a table that had too much on it to begin with. Moving some things around and I heard it hit the floor. There was a moment of panic and then I remembered it was just a Taurus...wheew!
Ric
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I haven’t used an Uncle Mikes holster since
I haven’t used an Uncle Mikes holster since
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My Ruger LCP fell out of its holster when I dropped my drawers to poop. Never do that again.
1976B.L.Johns.
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Poop?
Another whoopsie I just remembered...
I think I have told this tale before here on THR, But I'll repeat.
I was riding my Harley near the shore of Lake Superior. Anyone who has been next to Gitchee-Gumee knows it is usually "cooler by the lake."
Got on top of the hill heading into Hermantown needing fuel. It was much warmer and I figured I would ride the 120 miles home after getting gas without my leather jacket.
My pocket pistol was in the inside chest pocket.
Whipped my jacket off at the fuel pumps with a MN State Trooper on the other side of the pumps.
The pistol hit the concrete skidding towards our LEO.
Either he did not hear or see, or did not care.
I sheepishly picked it up and put it in the bike's trunk with my jacket and got gas. (Both kinds!)
hemiram
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I've only dropped one gun. I can''t say that about anything else I've carried around. Radios, cuffs, mags, I've dropped all of them, a couple of the radio drops were $$$ to fix. I dropped this (Unloaded) Dan Wesson 15-2 at the range counter about 2 years ago. Lucky it was over the carpeted floor and there was no damage, except embarrassment:
I have never dropped one, but I had a buddy who had never shot a single action gun, or a .44mag. who did. We were at the range and I looked away and he picked up my gun, held it at out arms length with his right hand, and a slightly bent elbow and fired one round. The gun rolled up in his hand, as it was designed to do and his arm bent back while trying to handle the recoil. The front sight struck him between the eyes, breaking his glasses in the center and of course he released the gun that tumbled to the ground breaking one side of the wood grip. The load was one of my hottest reloads and he never touched anything bigger than a .22 handgun after that experience. Oh he also bought me a new set of grips as well.
earlthegoat2
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I’m pretty amazed at all the one or two times answers.
Then again, I’ve dropped guns many many times but never once at the range.
Then again, I’ve dropped guns many many times but never once at the range.
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