Refrigerate After Holstering

[spin180]

I... am such... a dumbass...

Got home from work this morning. Took my KelTec P3AT out of my pocket, noticed it was fairly dusty/linty and decided to give it cursory cleaning.

Started toward the other end of the house for cleaning supplies and stopped in the kitchen to grab a drink. Went to fill my 32 oz. insulated mug with ice from the through-the-door ice maker/dispenser. Said dispenser got blocked up with ice and stopped dispensing.

Set my mug down, KelTec still in hand, and opened the freezer door to clear the jam in the ice maker. Ice maker was really blocked up and I had to pull out the tray to free it up. Tray's fairly large and I need two hands to remove it, so I set the KelTec down... in a pocket on the freezer door.

Somewhere along the way of clearing the ice maker, I got sidetracked.

Bout an hour later it hits me I was going to clean the gun... but where is it? Looked all over the house, and then...

There it was... next to the cremesicles.

 

[Leatherneck]

So how long have you has this ADD thing, Spin?

TC

 

[Cliff47]

Love it!!! A couple of thoughts, if you will indulge me:

1. You are not alone when it comes to having a brain-cramp (I have them all the time, and THEY HURT).

2. Now that is the way to conceal your carry pistol, it's cool, too (sorry, couldn't help myself on tht one).

3. Keep your sense of humor, that may be all that keeps one from making a sharp left turn into too-serious mode.

 

[Red_SC]

Better the fridge than the stove!

 

[JesseL]

That's not normal?

I thought it was pretty standard to keep a gun in the freezer, one in a zip-loc bag next to the shampoo, one in the medicine cabinet, one in your desk, one under your pillow, etc.

You don't wan't to be caught unarmed if someone breaks in whil you're going for a creamsicle at 2am, do you?

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

I thought it was pretty standard to keep a gun in the freezer, one in a zip-loc bag next to the shampoo, one in the medicine cabinet, one in your desk, one under your pillow, etc.

Yup that guy in the Bourne Supremacy kept a M92 in his fridge
You could just lie and say you were in the middle of doing a torture test like people have done with Glocks. "After the freezing test, I shoved a cremesicle in the mag well, did a couple of tap-rack-bang drills, then shot 50 rounds, no malfunctions..."

 

[Geronimo45]

I put my GI45 in there after a hot day. Black gun (parkerized) in a black car in Texas during August... it gets around a hundred degrees, and a few minutes in the freezer fixes things. Cold steel.

 

[Destructo6]

A story related to me:

Early 1980s, some LEO's have a "Choir Practice" (beer drinking/BS session) at the rookie's house. The beer was flowing like wine and much BS thrown about. Everyone leaves late. The next morning, the rookie wakes up and gets dressed for work, only to realize that he can't find his gun anywhere! After some serious panic, he breaks down and calls his supervisor:

Rookie: Sir, I, um, think I lost my gun...I can't find it and I've looked all over.
Supervisor: (burst of laughter)....
Supervisor to someone in his office: hey, the rookie can't find his gun! (chorus of laughter)
Supervisor to Rookie: try looking in your freezer!
And there it was.

 

[seeker_two]

I put my GI45 in there after a hot day. Black gun (parkerized) in a black car in Texas during August... it gets around a hundred degrees, and a few minutes in the freezer fixes things. Cold steel.

How else do you think Texans make it through these 100+-degree days?

Now, if someone would make 1911 grips out of that "Blue Ice" material...

 

[hso]

Cool

 

[cracked junior]

thats nothing

at work. the fridge is in the middle of the parts dept. for some reason. i have got in this habit of going to the fridge to get parts. people have actualy seen me looking in the fridge for parts. as in i go to parts dept to get parts. instead of looking on the shelf. i open the fridge and look in there untill i realize theres no parts in there. i first got told of this from the parts guy when he kepted finding parts in the fridge. and the bad thing is. i have no memory of putting things in the fridge. but i am getting better. now when i walk into parts, i have it in my head to not look in the fridge

 

[woolfam]

YMMV, but I think I'd let 'er warm up a little before putting it back in my pocket.

 

[Kor]

Pshaw...John Shaft(Richard Roundtree) kept a nickel-plated Colt D-frame snubby in HIS freezer...

They say this cat Shaft is one bad mother...

 

[zoom6zoom]

Just don't lick it.

 

[Optical Serenity]

Hahaha...good story, Keltec stress test!

 

[SigfanUSAF]

Hope you don't have kids! (mine may have tried to eat it)