Learning firearms safety through negligent discharges.

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Sorry about the thread title, I'm trying to have some humor about this after being angry with myself since it happened.

If I had obeyed the four rules this weekend, this never would have happened. The firearm involved was a Ruger Single Six 5.5" loaded with .22 longs. (not long rifle).

Guns and alcohol don't mix mmmK.

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Owies. Well, it's not as bad as it could have been.

I saw pictures of someone who managed to put a hole in themselves with a .45 ACP glock. FMJ, I think. They barely survived. It was during cleaning.

And it looks like you got by with an abrasion/burn, a conversation piece where you used to have a shirt, and a cautionary tale.
 
At first glance I didn't realize that was a shirt. I thought it was the crotch of a pair of sweats. :what:

Glad you're OK. So far I have managed to avoid any kind of a ND, but I'm sure that eventually I will have one. The key is whether or not I'm following the 4 rules when it happens.
 
I have a new 5th rule. DO NOT TOUCH FIREARMS WHILE INTOXICATED.

I almost had a ND with a .357 under the same drunken circumstances last year although it was pointed at the wall. Pulled the hammer back and proceeded to pull the trigger (why do we do these idiotic things when we're wasted???) just as I remembered it was loaded. Caught the hammer with my opposite hand thumb, wow I guess I'm fast anyways there was a little dimple in the primer, but not enough to set it off. I fired that round a few days later at the range.

DO NOT TOUCH FIREARMS WHILE INTOXICATED.
 
I have a new 5th rule. DO NOT TOUCH FIREARMS WHILE INTOXICATED.
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Ya, that's a good rule!!

I've got an ex-friend who didn't know that rule. Did I mention the "ex" part? I also have a new rule since then: Don't try to disarm a drunk friend. Depart immediate area quickly and discreetly. Luckily, in my case, no clothing or flesh developed extra holes.

I'm just wondering how in the heck did you end up with a hole there? You weren't trying to do the revolver twirl thing were you?
 
if I know I'm going to be drinking, all the ballistic conflict resolution devices either get unloaded, get put in the safe, or both. *beforehand*.

I don't get drunk very often at all (maybe once a year, if that) and I trust myself to not do anything stupid, but you never know what might happen. alchohol=no guns. especially if there's a chance I might have "company" that night. ;-)
 
I'm just wondering how in the heck did you end up with a hole there? You weren't trying to do the revolver twirl thing were you?
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Yep :rolleyes:

Twirled it five times real fast, cocked the hammer back and twirled it once more (I would only do something this stupid while drunk believe me) *bang*, I could very well have a hole in my head right now.
 
You're one lucky hombre! The first picture caused some concern about the wearer of the shirt and the second was an eye opener!

Concur with your conclusions 100%. Guns and alcohol don't mix. Glad you're OK, sober and smarter.
 
I'd say you were lucky.

I wouldn't take it on faith that luck runs in streaks if I were you.

Glad you are ok.
 
Well, the important thing is that nobody was hurt and that you learned from it, i guess. Glad you're okay :)
 
THANK YOU FOR YOUR POST!!!

YOU MAY HAVE SAVED A LIFE OR TWO!

I have had 2 ND's and am also lucky I am not dead.
1st one,I had a crappy cheap imitation hi power from bulgaria
(ARCUS 94) I had one in the pipe,hammer back,safety on.
lucky for me it was pointed in a safe direction (my radio)
I barely touched the trigger and!!!BOOM!!
The boom box kept working and my next door neighbor dug an interesting
piece of metal from his wall,lucky for me he is a friendly gunny who wasn't
home at the time.
2nd one was a 32acp Davis derringer that was loaded but on safety
I bumped the dresser it was on top of and it fell on the floor and it fired when it hit the floor!
now that one stays unloaded.
Allmost had one with the glock a while back when I was cleaning it
after a long day at work then going to the range.
I had pressed the mag release,ejected a round and was about to pull
the trigger when I realized that I had not really LOOKED and sure enough!
one in the pipe!
WHEW!!
The GF was home & I would have been in deep with no paddle
I have become anal retentive about all the safety rules
 
No need to expound where others have tread.

Bad ju ju always when guns and booze mix together.

Keep them seperate if you would please. We don't need the anti's having more ammunition against gun owners than we already give them.

Mistakes happen enough while handling dangerous equipment without having alcohol altering our thought processes.

You got lucky, if you learn from this you should consider yourself pretty damned lucky the lesson wasn't more costly.

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You guys are scaring the crap outta me. You think handling firearms is a joke? Maybe the anti's are right. Maybe everybody shouldn't be able to own a firearm. I know you guys shouldn't.

Please take a look at my pictures. If you ever see me at a range, introduce yourself SO I CAN LEAVE.
 
You think handling firearms is a joke? Maybe the anti's are right. Maybe everybody shouldn't be able to own a firearm. I know you guys shouldn't.
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That's a big Yowza. I agree with ysr_racer and CRSam; that's as nicely put as I can make it.
 
I'm glad nobody was hurt ! I hope you learned something from this, and be VERY thankful that the lesson was at little expense. (this time).
There is a reason why everyone talks about safety with redundancy. It is because it should be the primary mindset whenever handling a firearm.

Glad your OK.
 
I have a new 5th rule. DO NOT TOUCH FIREARMS WHILE INTOXICATED.
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A friendly suggestion, please accept it in that spirit and not pompous preaching, wonder9. Maybe a better rule might be simply: Do not drink! There are some of us (not everyone) for whom alcohol is a poison, might be genetic or something, I don't know. We will continue to do dumb things regardless of our sober promises. If you can truly come to that realization, you'd be surprised how easy it to pass on that first drink, find other more productive activies. Take it or leave it. Glad you're OK.
 
so, umm, who was holding your beer while you played 'tilt-a-whirl'?
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everyone, wondernine, stated in his first post that he is trying to keep his attitude about this light, as he has already berated himself for doing something he should have known better not to do. we can be thankful he didnt hurt himself or a bystander, and hope that he doesnt try it again.

when you stub your toe, do you appreciate when others step on it saying 'hey dummy! dont stub your toe again!'
 
when you stub your toe, do you appreciate when others step on it saying 'hey dummy! dont stub your toe again
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I "think" there may be a little difference here. If you don't, maybe you shouldn’t own a gun either.

MY GOD, DO YOU PEOPLE REALIZE HOW SERIOUS THIS IS ?
 
Although never a victim of an ND, I did witness one at close range in my childhood. My older brother was carrying a BB rifle as we walked the ocean beach. He was trying to get a piece of floating debris (a log, I think) out of the water. Couldn't reach it with his hands, so he tried to snag it with the rifle. That didn't work, so he turned the rifle around, holding it by the muzzle. He hooked the trigger guard around a branch all the while pointing the muzzle at his stomach. As he pulled the branch, it caused the trigger to be depressed, causing a BB to fire and strike him in the stomach.

He got a nice wound as a present. Nothing serious, just a bandaid needed. I got a lifelong lesson in gun safety. I believe he was around 10 or 12 at the time.

I'm so paranoid that I have trouble looking down the barrel of my guns when they are disassembled and I'm cleaning them.

-Pytron
 
Not an AD or ND but an ID - Idiotic Discharge!
Consider yourself warned, by whom ever watches over you and you're damm lucky. Live and learn as my boss like to say. Luckily you managed to do both, this time.

Alcohol only mixes with doing nothing and sleeping it off.
 
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