Some people (like me) just can't have nice things...

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Every time I get something nice I end up cosmetically damaging it somehow. Part of it is I'm just not that museum curator type that spends half his time preserving his possessions but part of it is I just do some bonehead things when I'm in a hurry or distracted.

Awhile ago I decided to move my Stack-On gun cabinet from one side of the closet to the other. You guessed it, I did not remove the guns before moving it. So when I bear-hugged it, pivoted, and tripped over something the cabinet came crashing down with me. :banghead:

The carnage wasn't as bad as I expected but my pristine Savage 24 has a nice deep scratch down to the metal, as does my Nylon 66 and one of my H&R barrels...

So please, share any "idiot mark" stories you have here and know that you are not alone.
 
I can't say I've done anything that boneheaded yet with my firearms. But then I've only been at this for 4 whole years. So give me some time and I'll match it.... :D

Some years back I was carrying a rather nice stick and tissue rubber powered model down to the flying field from the car. A bee or some other exceptionally loud bug mistook my ear for a flower and landed and started wandering around the folds and creases. My arm came up to swat it away in a purely reflex manner having totally forget the model clutched in my paw.... CRUNCH! A whole wing was busted away with considerable damage to the structure. Not one of my finer moments.... :D

.... er..... come to think now of it I'm sort of glad that it was a model and not a loaded gun during one of my matches..... :D
 
I drop things on the floor all of the time. I broke a pair of wooden CZ grips one time. I also forget to take my wedding ring off before I shoot and I get the front strap all scratched up (I'm a lefty)
 
Zoom6zoom, I had that exact thought as I was looking everything over...
 
My limited edition 1911 (73 made) has an idiot scratch from the take down pin when I put it back in. Nice scratch in the powder coating.

Wife has a NAA .22WMR mini with micarta handles. It slipped out of her holster onto a tile floor, broke about a dime sized piece off. It was a clean break so I fixed it with epoxy. Can just barely see the line now.
 
Left my 700 SPS-Varmint sitting, in/on the bags, on a concrete-topped bench while i took a break and hit the restroom (about 50yrds behind the firing line), while inside i heard a clattering sound after a moderate gust of wind....
I didn't realize how easy it was to knock the rifle off of it's balance point on the front and rear bags i was using :banghead:

luckily for me there only damage was cosmetic, ie two or three fairly impressive, but short (less that 1/4" long each) dings in the barrel. the scope wasn't even knocked out of alignment.
 
A couple years ago (maybe) I had a new Sig Sauer 556 Patrol rifle. Now I didn't try to move my gunsafe around with the guns inside but you don't have to do that to have a ....uh, accident. I'd placed the guns muzzle up leaning them against a wall to rearrange some things and when I turned my back...*CLACKITY-CLACK*!!
Turning around I saw my M-1 Carbine had fallen against the Patrol Sig....knocking it down. Examining the Sig I was horrified to see one of the carbine's front sight protective "ears" had gouged a nice bright jagged silver line across the nice matt black upper on the left side of my new Evil Black Rifle!!
Boy did I feel like a putz!
Anyway, thankfully a jar of some of that instablue stuff was available and a judicious application of it has removed any obvious trace of that scar, except maybe in direct sunlight.
But I was really annoyed there for awhile......

Hey, accidents happen ....
 
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I stupidly wore the slickest boots in the world (wore out) and slipped on wet rocks.. clouting my Model 7 fierce. At least the gouges were only to the bolt-knob, trigger guard, magazine floor plate and pistol grip. Bloodied the hand holding the rifle too but never let go of it.
 
Don't feel bad, such is life. New cars never stay new, they WILL get dinged sooner or later, you WILL drop and scratch your cell phone, etc. Sounds like you have some great guns. Get out and shoot them and enjoy them. Life's too short to worry about what already happened.
 
Wife wanted to clean her brand new XD 9 straight out of the box so we could go out shooting. She went to take the slide off and bam...right on the concrete floor it went. When she bent over to pick it up every thing fell off her lap onto the floor. In trying to pick things up she spilled her pop on it. I couldn't help but laugh when she told me about it. All she could say was well I guess I ain't worried bout it getting dirty now.
 
Dropped a 10/22 barrel down onto the tile bathroom floor while cleaning it. Rifle was fine but I chipped a tile; never did tell the wife what caused that one. She's never mentioned it.
 
As an off-duty LEO, I dropped a S&W M659 from the door pocket of my truck onto the pavement outside a busy bank branch office once. Got some nicks at the base of the grip frame's rear and the beavertail. Probably didn't look that good happening, either, but don't know if anyone saw.
 
Looks like I'm the smart one of the bunch.

Have had several handguns fall out of the safe that I bumped while reaching for something else on too many occasions.

Luckily, they have always landed on my bare feet.

Since I landed on the floor next to the gun, I was able to give it an up close inspection.
Although I was not seeing very clearly through squinted eyes, I could discern no damage. To the guns that is.

Does Cabela's sell steel toed house slippers?

JT
 
Don't beat yourself up too bad. In this day and age of locking up our guns in cabinets or safes, this sort of thing is bound to happen. Lesson learned when you're moving stuff around next time. I've found myself in the same boat as you when a family member couldn't get open my safe and decided rocking it back and forth, tugging on the handle might help the cause. Dings galore!
 
I've read these posts with great sympathies...because every gun I own have dings and scratches. It is simply unavoidable. I can't even tell you how most of the damage happened. Its just something I "get over"

I have to say...DAB102999...your wife WINS. Made me laugh!

Mark
 
What happens happens.
About 15-16 years ago I was out cutting fire wood with a cousin. We always made a dual purpose of the trip and brought our rifles to do some shooting as well. After shooting I had laid my Marlin 35 cal. on the hood of his truck, cause that was our bench rest, figuring we would come back to it. At some point He had to move the truck so we could start loading the wood. I remembered my rifle just about the time it was too late and watched it slide off the hood and land smack on to what had to be the only rock in sight. It threw the scope off windage by nearly 2.5 ft @50 yrds. Funny thing was, I didn't use it again until two years later when deer hunting. I drew down on an eight point and squeezed off at what should have been his heart. As he started running away I realized that I had never sighted the gun back in. The deer made another stop for me as he tried to figure out which way to run. I compensated the shot and dropped him. I later dug my first shot out of his rear hip bone.
As a method proved by scientific deduction, Every time I get a new gun I take the stock or grip off and carve a nice scratch into it where it will never be seen. This gets the inevitable out of the way thus for preventing visible scratches.
 
I did not remove the guns before moving it.
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Everyone has a story about putting a firearm down and knocking it off onto the floor (or foot:eek:), but that's an exceptional level of irresponsibility that most members will have trouble matching.

You got off easy considering you could have injured yourself to the extent that your quality of life would have been wrecked.
 
I used a nearly new Kimber Longmaster Classic as a handle for my handyman jack.
Well, not really...but it would give a job it could handle.
 
, Every time I get a new gun I take the stock or grip off and carve a nice scratch into it where it will never be seen. This gets the inevitable out of the way thus for preventing visible scratches.
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:what: All that accomplishes is that now when they get dinged accidentally, you've got two dings!:eek:
 
I wish I could count on two hands the number of times one of my friends left a gun at home because "it's too nice to take hunting". Guns like hammers, wrenches and screwdrivers are just tools. One cannot have them for any amount of time and actually use them without them showing some kind of wear. Scratches and dents are memories that can't be wiped off. Funny, I can't see any of those marks when lookin' down the barrel.
 
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