Learning from your mistakes. Your biggest OOPS moments.

[paralaska]

When I was a kid of 12 or so . . . The neighbor kid and I were shooting mice in his barn with 22 shorts. We heard a mouse in a wall . . . so he shot at it and heard a nice little thump as it fell inside the wall. A little later, when we were outside . . . we discovered that the 22 short had gone completely through the wall and the outside siding on the barn . . . and through the rear quarter panel on his dad's brand new Olds 98. I can't remember if we told his dad or not . . .

 

[TehK1w1]

Fortunately I've never had an ND. Being borderline OCD sure helps with that-checking the chamber twice before each time you dry fire has a way of preventing accidents
However, a couple years back my father discovered that it's possible to reassemble a mauser bolt in such a way that it fires the moment the safety is disengaged.
A couple years before he did that, a good friend of mine put a 243 bullet through the roof of her deer stand while loading her Sako.
Last time I took my little brother to the range, while putting up the rifles for the drive home I inspected his Marlin model 60 and found a live 22lr round in the chamber. The extractor failed to pull it out and he had just looked to make sure that nothing ejected when he pulled the bolt back.