Self nomination for dumb a** of the day

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Well, I think I can claim the flub up of the day award. I just put a Remmy 22 together from some parts. Nice looking rifle, I hope it shoots as good as it looks. Well this morning I wanted to do a cycle check to see if I needed to tweak anything. Not having any .22 dummy rounds I loaded 5 live rounds into the tube. I worked the bolt and sure enough, it fed, extracted and ejected the rounds, too cool.

So, thinking I was done, I went to drop the pin and put it away. I take the safety off, squueze the trigger, and POP. Now there is a nice .22 size hole in my freezer :( in the door, through some frozen hotdog buns and into the back wall. GOSH DANG IT!

I am an idiot today.
 
*Guinness commercial voice* BRILLIANT!

Of course, I kid. Learn from your mistakes and move on.

And patch up that freezer before you have a date over. Nobody digs somebody with leaky coolage.
~Slam_Fire
 
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He hates the buns! Stay away from the buns!
 
You now have your first ND out of the way. I still haven't had one. That just means I haven't had one yet. You'll be a lot more careful about checking in the future.

Look on the bright side. At least you weren't building a .338 Lapua.
 
Many years ago, wife's grandfather was giving a safety speech to a bunch of young kids before the morning's deer hunt. This is before day light but in a well lit living room with all the women folk still in bed asleep. Shot the living room chandelier down with a .270. Mucho red face!
 
I just hope you didn't

nick a refrigerant line.

As I did drilling a drain hole in the base of my air conditioner........ :banghead:
 
BRING! BRING! "hello? Yes, my refrigerator WAS running so I shot it" :evil:

Happy to hear everyone else is ok.
 
Ya, nothing hurt except for the freezer and maybe my rear when my wife gets home and chews on it tonight. The wall the freezer is on is the thickest in the garage and thus the safest direction. I managed to miss all of the vitals so it still works, just have to plug the holes now.
 
[Jimmy Buffet voice] I shot six holes in my freezer, I think I've got cabin fever[/voice]

Sorry, ID, I just had to, ya know.
 
You guys are too quick, kudoos to Horsesense and HighVelocity! Gotta love those bullet hole decals, they look so real!
 
Hey..uhh...ID_shooting...do me a favor will ya? Before you plug it can you peek thru the hole and tell me if the light really does go off when the fridge door is closed? Thanks!

Glad nobody got hurt.
 
Did you warn it by shouting "freeze" before you shot. :) Glad no one was hurt, hell of a learning experience.
 
You know the humor displayed here is priceless and I laughed with the rest of ya'll.

But the serious nature of playing with guns is that it is serious business. No one should ever, ever have an ND. I say that knowing that I have had one which I went into great detail with either here or at TFL, can't remember.

All guns are loaded at all times. Never forget that! Never pull the trigger of a "unoaded" gun unless you intend to shoot what it is pointing at.

The rule is: If you have had one ND you are not allowed another. If you have not had a ND, you are not allowed your first one.
 
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