1. I've only had one ND/AD ever happened when I was about 16. Like many of you, even after more than a decade later I still can't really say exactly how it happened. Besides the use of hearing protection and safety glasses, my dad (also a High Road junky) taught me VERY VERY well about firearms. First thing I do when I pick up a gun is check to make sure it is empty. I did this long before this accident, and I still do it even if my best friend hands me a gun after I just see him check it.
Anyway long story short..I checked the cylinder on a Taurus 85 after shooting and just prior to cleaning; however, I somehow missed a round. The middle part has always had some fuzzy spots, but I put a .38 SWC through the 2 layers of drywall going into my closet, through 2 of my favorite ties, the necks of 5 of my shirts, and into the back wall of my closet. The bullet stopped as it keyholed into the first piece of drywall in the back of the closet. I thank God that it stopped there because 2 feet on the other side of that second piece of drywall (exactly in the bullets path, I checked later) was my 18 year old sister's head as she sat at her desk.
Ever since then I am damn carefull when I lower the hammer on any gun wether it is loaded or not. Don't really know why that changed right then though, the Taurus was a DAO. It didn't even have a hammer to cock and let back down. Oh well, it is a good habbit to have now anyway.
2. On a much lighter note, while I was about 10 I secretly shot my '94 Winchester-looking Daisy BB gun inside the house. I bounced off of two unknown things in the den and then struck one of a pair of very old antique lamps my mom had. It had a lot of little glass beads made into the body of the lamp; luckily all I did was knock one of those beads off of it.
Mom later sold the lamps, but to this day, she never knew. If my dad, Tascosa Kid, happens upon this thread he will probably laugh and give me a call about it as he never knew until now.
3. I still laugh at a friend of mine who use to make comments about how dumb and negligent his older brother was when he shot his and his wife's brand knew TV. Although for some reason he stopped talking about it when he shot his own TV 5 years later.
Anyway long story short..I checked the cylinder on a Taurus 85 after shooting and just prior to cleaning; however, I somehow missed a round. The middle part has always had some fuzzy spots, but I put a .38 SWC through the 2 layers of drywall going into my closet, through 2 of my favorite ties, the necks of 5 of my shirts, and into the back wall of my closet. The bullet stopped as it keyholed into the first piece of drywall in the back of the closet. I thank God that it stopped there because 2 feet on the other side of that second piece of drywall (exactly in the bullets path, I checked later) was my 18 year old sister's head as she sat at her desk.
Ever since then I am damn carefull when I lower the hammer on any gun wether it is loaded or not. Don't really know why that changed right then though, the Taurus was a DAO. It didn't even have a hammer to cock and let back down. Oh well, it is a good habbit to have now anyway.
2. On a much lighter note, while I was about 10 I secretly shot my '94 Winchester-looking Daisy BB gun inside the house. I bounced off of two unknown things in the den and then struck one of a pair of very old antique lamps my mom had. It had a lot of little glass beads made into the body of the lamp; luckily all I did was knock one of those beads off of it.
Mom later sold the lamps, but to this day, she never knew. If my dad, Tascosa Kid, happens upon this thread he will probably laugh and give me a call about it as he never knew until now.
3. I still laugh at a friend of mine who use to make comments about how dumb and negligent his older brother was when he shot his and his wife's brand knew TV. Although for some reason he stopped talking about it when he shot his own TV 5 years later.