Worst thing you've ever done to a gun???

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In my younger days :uhoh: learning about the shotgun and shells, I did "load testing". I used old single shot shotguns purchased cheap...I mounted in a tire with a pull rope. Well my testing didn't begin with used ones...umm, I blew up a brand new H&R Topper, I mean the bbl went and wood separated from stock...even cracked receiver!

I did find a great Goose load tho' after I backed off a bit...ok, maybe more than a bit. ;)

H&R bbl became a cheater bar. The rest became wall hanger art.
 
Worst thing I did to a gun. 3 guns actually, when I first got married I had 3 matching Ruger 6 shooters, all stainless. A single six, a 357, and Vaquero 44 magnum. Finances got tight and I pawned them to pay the rent. Never got them back.
Oh to go back in time :mad:
 
This is a continuous thing I'm STILL doing! Aargh!

My sweetie drove down here and "kidnapped" me to visit her at her place in GA, back in March. I took the revolver with me, but didn't trust the aged Daddy, or any burglars who might happen by, with the Star PD, so I took it apart and hid the barrel. (Maybe, in the garage somewhere?)


Well, a one-week trip turned into a one-month trip, mostly because we both caught some kind of horrible flu or something. It was bad. At one point I was running at about 105 degrees F and talking funny. Sweetie had to drag me to the bathtub and submerge me in cold water.


I think it's true what some people say, that every time you get the flu, a little bit of your brain dies. (Some kind of auto-immune thing or something?)
For whatever reason, I CAN'T remember where I put the barrel! Sometimes, late at night, when having trouble sleeping anyway, I think of that hollow piece of steel just rusting away and providing a comfy habitat for a black widow spider, or a fly pupa, or something. Double Aaargh!
 
I did something bad to a gun a BIG gun, it was during my first year in the army during a driving course. I was driving a M109 155MM cannon (israeli "DOHER")at night using night vision. some iidot accidently shot a flare outside and the night vision was blinded ... we ended up in a ditch with the cannon it self stuck in rock. terminal daaaammaaaaage


that was the end of the barrel.
 
I left one in the safe for a while. It never saw the light of day for over two years. Poor little thing was so nervous it was shaking the first time I went to shoot it.:eek:
 
I was being stupid one day and was firing my 50lb draw crossbow at a target inside my closet. The bolt went through the shoebox and newspaper and stopped when it hit the stock of my Winchester 190. Left a small ding, and is still the only blemish on the wood.
 
I sold a Ruger Bisley Blackhawk .44 mag to help pay for my first wedding (small affair, we was poor).
Some guy got a fine firearm, I got a wife. Damn stupid trade
I bet he still has the gun.
 
I cut the lanyard ring off of my S & W model 1917 so I could put a Hogue grip on it. Those stock grips suck.
 
I plan to drop test a perfectly good M240B next week!

It'll be done many times from a height of 1.5m onto nice hard concrete!

I get paid to do this, WOOT!
 
einnor1040--
you don't have to believe this but, just today at lunch, I was talking with some buds about changing the grip on my Colt 1917. If it involves removing the lanyard ring in a destructive manner, I may have to think it over.
I agree, those stock grips suck.
 
Sold a 73 Win. in about 80% condition for $15.00.

Back in 1946 that was all it was worth. I hate to
think what it would bring now!
 
I took apart a ruger MKII- 22 pistol and could not get it back in firing order. I sent it back to Ruger and they sent iback working.

Five years later................you guessed it.:banghead:

My eight year old could probably do it right.
 
Tried bedding a .22 magnum Marlin bolt action rifle using PC7 epoxy with Pam cooking spray as a release agent. Split the stock trying to get the dang thing back apart.:cuss: What an idiot! It DID shoot really tight groups just before I destroyed it. I should have just left it be.:rolleyes:
 
Hmmm, this thread brings back memories. (bad)
Lessee, I had a pristine 870 fly out of my hands and skate down a frozen slope (unchambered) when I slipped on the ice, scarring it horribly, still worked.

I accidently touched off a 40 S&W in my Colt 45, no damage.

I accidently left a 22 auto nine wrapped in a rag in the floor of a convertable in a coffee can and it rained, rusting the slide. No biggie POS.

I drop tested a combat commander with a primed empty case in it by rolling it across the carpeted living room floor about a dozen times. Cocked & un locked, never dropped the hammer, still functioned fine.

I am not a gunsmith attempted repair on friends old POS H&R 32. Manufactured replacement part from garage junk angle bracket with file and drill and stone...It Worked! Possibly making it more dangerous than before.;) (Last I heard, still running!)

Over the years with our little charter arms .22 revolver, my family has always pulled on the ejection rod to open it, never on the lever on the side of the reciever. Somehow, sometime, the little lever just stopped working and now the only way to use it is to pull the ejection rod.
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My Charter Arms Bulldog is the same way now. Whats up with that I wonder?
 
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