Yikes! Did he really load that backwards

[4570Rick]

I couldn’t believe it. The guy came in to my favorite range saying he wanted to rent a Berretta 92. He said he hunted and was familiar with firearms. I was in the gunsmithing room porting a 629-1 and decided to take a break. I walked up front at the same time the range officer was trying to help this customer deal with a “jam.â€

The knuckle head had loaded the ammo backwards and Berettas being what they are, it fed the round out of the mag and stuffed it into the chamber, BACKWARDS.

This is a scary jam to clear. The owner of the range did clear the jam safely and the customer was asked to leave and come back after he had completed at basic firearms safety course, and not before!!!

How does anyone with an IQ above 13 load 9mm ammo backwards in a mag, stuff the mag in the gun, then chamber a round BACKWARDS in the chamber.

 

[Phyphor]

Dude, you owe me a beer now, as the one I was drinking was decorating my monitor a moment ago (pre-cleaning,)

My god. Just how the can someone possibly NOT figure out that the 'pointy end' of a friggin' bullet goes to the front of the gun? (Using simple terms here, )

God save us from so-called 'firearms experts,'

 

[Ed Brunner]

They probably went in the magazine easier that way???

 

[craigz]

I don't know, doesn't the army still put those grade school reader instructions on its armaments, such as "Pull pin. Throw away?"

 

[Phyphor]

HOW??!?

Just for the hell of it, I just tried to load my Glock 19's 15 rounders with a single 9mm round, facing both correctly and incorrectly.

Both times were about as easy, to my fingers,

Of course, I obviously didn't try to load and fire said firearm with the rounds in the wrong direction.

 

[sensop]

'Saw, with my own eyes, an AF crew member do this same thing at the qualification range. Mag loaded with rounds facing backwards. Chambered up. Safety off. Fire! Click! Alibi ... Doh!

 

[Butch]

Can you spell Dip sh......t ?

 

[Kahr carrier]

See it all the time at the ranges that rent guns ,but it should be a litttle better now that you have to do a handling demo to by a gun in the Prk.

 

[critter]

Almost as bad. I was in local gun shop the other day. Guy had brought a Glock 17 in. He uses it as his 'bedside table gun' and leaves it empty with a full mag nearby. He heard the 'bump in the night', grabbed the mag, shoved it in the gun and 'slapped it home'----but the mag was backward! 'Smith had a HECK of a time getting it out-no damage to gun-not so with the mag!

 

[TallPine]

This is why so many recommend starting with a revolver.

Actually, this guy should have started with a water pistol ...

 

[bogie]

Any of y'all tried to use the wrong mag in the right gun?

Fess up...

 

[Steve Smith]

Bogie, no, but I have loaded 10mm in a 1911 .45 mag. Goes right in and stays. Till you drop the slide, that is. "Plunk" Entire 10mm cartridge goes down the barrel and hits the floor.

 

[JackShandy]

craigz said...

I don't know, doesn't the army still put those grade school reader instructions on its armaments, such as "Pull pin. Throw away?"

This particular rocket scientist would be the one to pull the pin and throw it (the pin) away.
"Now what do I do with this pineapple-looking <BLAM!>

 

[Carbon_15]

I once had some nucklehead crame .45 ACP rounds into my Glock 20 magazine. He managed to force about 4 rounds into it before it started to split down the front seam...a $130 preban, ruined.

 

[Frohickey]

Never underestimate how ingenious idiots can be.

 

[griz]

"Plunk" Entire 10mm cartridge goes down the barrel and hits the floor.

Had to laugh over that. It reminds me of a cartoon image.
Since you were brave enough to share here is another. When you load a bullet in your muzzleloader but forget to put put in the powder first, and a doe is standing about 40 feet away, she looks very startled when the cap goes off. Don't ask how I know this.

 

[mgjohn]

Had a customer come into the shop a couple of weeks ago witha jammed up H&K USP in 9mm. Someone had jammed a Glock 17 mag into the magwell. Had a heck of a time getting it out.

 

[Autolite]

Nightmare ...

I was in a fire fight and was watching my buddies getting mowed down in an enemy cross-fire. I was the only one armed and all I had was a .303 Lee Enfield. I was struggling to chamber a round, but the action was too stiff, like it was covered in corn syrup. I dropped out the 'mag' as an IA and to my horror I found that the rounds were all loaded 'CROSS-WAYS'. First I panicked, then I woke up ...

Lesson Learned: Always check you magazines before bedtime ...

 

[BerettaNut92]

I always tell people, 'scary side forward.'

 

[goon]

Loading one round into the mag could be do-able, but the whole mag?
I'm suprised to hear that more than one round would go in. If that guy had put that much effort into knowing what he was doing, he would be an olympic shooter by now.

 

[nemesis]

I read a thread on another board that was interesting but I can't vouch for its authenticity.

A guy who works in a gun shop claims a guy brought in a Colt Gold Cup, complaining that it didn't function properly and wanting to trade it for something powerful enough to penetrate engine blocks. He said it ejected the brass back into his face and demonstrated his qualifications by holding the pistol in firing position and rotating it 90 degrees, horizontal, where he said the brass ejected into his face.

He said he would take a certain pistol he had heard was very powerful, so he left the Colt and departed with his new Jennings 9mm to puncture a few engine blocks.

 

[blades67]

I don't know, doesn't the army still put those grade school reader instructions on its armaments, such as "Pull pin. Throw away?"

No, because some of that guy's family kept throwing away the pin and then asking what they should do with the grenade.:banghead:

 

[Coronach]

Any of y'all tried to use the wrong mag in the right gun?

Guilty. (well, kinda)

At a Tusco shoot I borrowed a TFLer's Cz-75 and a few magazines. What I failed to notice was that one of the mags I had grabbed was for a Cz-75 Compact.

Note to those who own Cz-75s and Cz-75 Compacts. The compact mags will fit a full-size Cz-75. They will even seat properly.

They will not, however, allow you to chamber a round.

Mike

 

[tex_n_cal]

Hmmm...

talking to someone while loading the mag, by feel.

eyeing the pretty girl with the twin .357's, and loading the mag, again, by feel.

I confess I probably don't eye every round I load into a 1911 mag, since it is second nature.

I also didn't eye the .25-06 I once fired in a .270, either, but no harm done except the case is now a .270 case with a .25-06 headstamp

 

[bokchoi]

When I worked at the range as an RO to teenage newbies (NOT a job for the faint of heart), bullets were routinely loaded backwards into the magazine. Routinely, as in on a daily basis.

What's scarier was that these were often by the people in the army reserves, who would flash their military ID when you asked them if they have shot before.

I don't work there anymore, obviously.