I shot my leg

[JRH6856]

Thanks, GLOOB. I'm going to borrow a Glock and study on that for a bit.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

I'm not sure how the XD works, for sure. I would guess it is similar.

A XD is SAO and it works like any other. The striker rests on the sear and pulling the trigger pulls releases the sear. Sear can't move without the grip safety depressed because it blocks the sear. Trigger can't be pulled without the grip safety being depressed because it's connected to the sear. Pulling the striker back on a string would do nothing.

 

[Panzercat]

Unless your 1911 is terribly broken four things had to happen before you received that terrible pain in your leg.

Side safety released.
Beaver tail safety deactivated.
The hammer was cocked.
Trigger pulled.

IMO the 1911 is one of the safest pistols out there.

Agreed, even while acknowledging my own 1911 ND a while back. Didn't ensure a clear chamber, but the hole in the wall is hardly the pistols fault since I had to defeat every safety it has to do it.

I can sympathize, however.

 

[PT92]

at first there is no pain kinda weird but I didn't realize I had been shot until I dropped my pants to check.

Sorry to hear of this most unfortunate event and here's hoping that you can make the best out of a bad situation.

But the aforementioned reminds me of my Dad who once told me that he cut his thigh quite severely in an old lumber mill and did not realize it until he thought he had p...d himself only to find out it was warm blood instead of urine running down his leg--Human body is simply amazing and resilient at that...

 

[gym]

I'm 64 and carry 24/7 and never put my finger on the trigger except when I want to shoot something. My Uncles were all ex servicemen and mostlly Marines, one was a competition shooter and a gunsmith, They were much more vigilant about safety than the youg kids I see today.I am afraid to shoot at a public range. Most were never in the military and have no clue other than what some other guy told them. I think that sort of thinking is skewed. Most older men who shoot have a military background and are more knowledgebale about guns in general. My uncles were building 45's 50 years ago. I was shooting against the FBI and NYPD in the 70's. Upstate on their range. I don't believe that younger shooters other than ex military, snipers and special ops are any safer than anyone else.Just as many cops I hung with were not into guns at all.Most still don't get enough practice, and will never use their weapon.In my house if you failed to checck a gun handed to you, you got slapped off your chair. It didn't matter who checked it before you or in front of you. My uncle was a DI, and he would take some of my friends, also young servicemen shooting, in Glen head LI, to a private range, and even after explaining this they still would fail to check the weapon. It was embarassing but they took it, because it taught them once and for all.

 

[benbernanke]

I think you should sell the firearm because its a bad luck piece now. No use in tempting fate. Sell it and get something else.

 

[JShirley]

Wow. A "bad luck piece"?!

Okay, well, good job making firearm owners seem like rational, intelligent people. I think this thread has now officially used up its stupidity quotient.

John