stupid things you've done recently

[Mp7]

moved to australia 4yrs ago.

being a nature guy, fisherman, and experienced hunter ( see above)
i wandered on some rockplatforms during low tide and
watched the awesomeness of pacific coastal fauna in bathtubsize
pools. saw a grapefruitsize octopus hunt and get a big crab ....
For me this was like the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cousteau
stuff i had seen when i was young. Awesome.

Happened to see a tiny octopus in a bucketsize pool.
Wonderful colors. Kinda cute!

So i took my hands to form a container with water with the tiny lil
octopus in it, to have a close look. Then put "him" back.

Bragging about this experience 20mins later
the father of my aussie girlfriend told me i
had handled a young:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-ringed_octopus

 

[EmbarkChief]

^^^^

I already knew where you were going with that before I reached the end. You are one lucky SOB.

 

[hardworker]

So far it's neck and neck between the octopus story and the 20 gauge full of paper chads story.

 

[essayons21]

Was out shooting with a bunch of army buddies. Our target was a huge hardwood stump that the owner of the place had hauled down from up in the mountains. About 4ft diameter.

After shooting a mixture of .380, 9mm, .45, 7.62x39, .308, and 12 ga slugs at the stump I noticed one of the slugs ricochet off and land a few feet back (towards us) from the stump. Cool! I said as I went to pick it up. As I look down I notice among the brass there are quite a few 9mm and .45 FMJ bullets laying on the ground, not at all deformed.

Was this wood really so hard that it was ricocheting rounds back at us?

Only one way to find out! Keep shooting the stump. It was pretty cool watching the .45 slugs bounce off and arc over our heads. Finally we stopped when one whacked one guy (our medic) in the head and left a pretty good sized lump.

Good times.

 

[gunaholic2]

I ran the Judge out of town

I recently purchased a Taurus Circuit Judge. It is a very nice rifle/shotgun. It shoots well and has very little recoil. The only problem is that I only shoot at an indoor range, and it is a waste of money to buy a shotgun and pay for the expensive ammo. LOL. I traded it in a few days later, but unfortunately only got half of what I just paid for it new. However, that is the way with all trade-ins. I never seem to want to be bothered with selling it outright to someone. It really is a good gun, but of no use to me.

 

[clutch]

Well, I was crono'ing some .380 ammo through my Bersa 95 when I got a wild velocity and the gun quit working. Pulling the mag and clearing the chamber found a .32 acp case that had burst. I don't own a .32 acp and I don't have .32 acp ammo.

Something happened somewhere that introduced that wrong round to my 50 round box of ammo. Magtech stuff if it matters, I generally have good luck with it.

Shot at a burn barrel to put a few drain holes in it. Left side foam plug fell out as I touched off a round. Noise pulse coming back from curved surface was a perfect storm and 30--35 dB left that ear forever. Tip, if the sound drives you to your knees, you just experienced hearing loss. Thank fully the plug stayed in the other ear. I own and use only muffs now.

Almost jammed a 7.7 jap or 303 brit round in a rifle chambered for the other before my brain kicked in. Can't remember which way that went.

Used rifle primers in my .45 acp loads. My Ruger P90 touched off 95% of them and amost all of the rest on a second strike. That gun has one heavy hammer spring.

Oh yes, I broke my left finger hammering on a wrench trying to loosen a bolt on my mom's car. Well the hammer glanced off the fender, missed the wrench and hit my finger holding same. That hurt more than any other injury has before.

I thought I was good, the finger flexed but a week or so later, it stiffened up and curled. Damn, finally buy a guitar amp for my electric I bought in Japan in 75 and I can't play bar chords worth a chit. :banghead:

Anyway, I learned to live with it, that index finger isn't my trigger finger normally.

Well, a few months ago, I'm at the club range and decide to shoot left hand. My instinctive finger outside the guard that works for my right index finger doesn't work for that left one. I think it is outstretched but it is inside the trigger guard.

As I come up, bang goes the gun since finger missed the trigger guard and went inside. I know about it now but darn that was embarrassing. No, there were no witnesses and the very nice and high berms contained the shot. That was my first and hopefully last AD.

Clutch

 

[MrWesson]

Caught a huge bullfrog fishing a golf course lake behind my house and decided to show it to my GF. When I got home she was napping and I put it near her face and woke her.

She punched me lol

Drank a "FOUR LOCO" and some beers with friends last weekend. If you dont know what a four loco is(I didn't) it equals 6 beers and 3 cups of coffee and a huge hangover afterwards.

 

[Zach S]

Left side foam plug fell out as I touched off a round.

Properly worn, plugs dont fall out...

 

[supham]

Properly worn, plugs dont fall out...

Good one, feeling the need to correct people in a thread where they are admitting mistakes is pretty stupid. Fits perfect in this thread.

 

[clutch]

Properly worn, plugs dont fall out...

Middle of a Michigan winter they get hard and can fall out. These were foam plugs. Now I stick to my Peletor Tactical Pro muffs.

I've always been very protective of my hearing, I served in the military, worked on jets and loud factory floors. My injury was a freak, normally one shot out of a .380 isn't going to cause significant damage but this time I caught that golden bb.


Clutch

 

[Bill H 40]

An SR9C chambered for 9mm will in fact ( sometimes ) feed and fire .380ACP.
Yeah I felt pretty dumb.

 

[Zach S]

Good one, feeling the need to correct people in a thread where they are admitting mistakes is pretty stupid. Fits perfect in this thread.

That was mainly in reply to him saying he only owned and used muffs now.

I work in a loud environment where earplugs are mandatory. I see improperly worn plugs, out of stupidity or laziness, about six nights a week. Had I known Old Man Winter was at fault instead of Clutch I wouldn't have said anything, because I went through the same thing when I worked for aspludh. Which reminds me, sometimes, in dead silence, I can still here that Stihl 034 AV....

 

[Shadow 7D]

It's OK bill, been at a shop and listened to a customer, tell another customer that was buying a Rugar 9mm, that she could shoot .380 (AKA 9mm Browning short 9x17) in a 9mm (9x19) cause it was like .357 and .38 special. I let the owner know, and he removed that idea fast.

 

[rogertc1]

In over 38 years of gun handling I have never used a wrong caliber in any gun. Simply stupid to do. Nothing to be proud of either.

 

[clutch]

That was mainly in reply to him saying he only owned and used muffs now.

I work in a loud environment where earplugs are mandatory. I see improperly worn plugs, out of stupidity or laziness, about six nights a week. Had I known Old Man Winter was at fault instead of Clutch I wouldn't have said anything, because I went through the same thing when I worked for aspludh. Which reminds me, sometimes, in dead silence, I can still here that Stihl 034 AV....

Hey, no harm no foul. I got a life lesson the hard way. I've really tried to learn by watching others screw up and avoid doing it myself. It didn't work out that time.

Clutch