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About a month ago, my brother-in-law and I went to the local range to shoot his newly acquired Mark 23 and when we got into the range, we noticed a "thuggish" man and his girlfriend in the neighboring lane. You see, this individual just rented a S&W 500 magnum and when he finished loading, and he was standing with his spine arched backwards, his arns straight forward, legs straight without bending, and his feet side-by-side with very little space.
We were going to say something to him, but its impolite to instruct a man on how to do something in front of his girlfriend/wife, especiialy regarding a masculine activity like shooting guns. So then he shoots once, and naturally, the gun recoils back, smacks him in the face, and he falls flat on the floor.
Gun safety lesson: If you have never fired a gun before, don't start with .50 caliber pistols
I would have at least asked if he would be kind enough to just load one round at a time. That was I could still get the amusement of seeing him knock himself out without any chance of the second shot going off in any direction.
Or what about the chap that blew his thumb clear off with a 500mag, that's a doozy.
My uncle put a .45 cal spent brass over the barrel of a .22 rifle, held it over his head, and fired it into the air… I think he still has some brass in his head.
Ouch.
I'm sure everyone knows the famous, "oh don't worry it's not loaded…BANG."
My, well lets just say my "friend", has, on multiple occasions, in different houses he owned, went to clean his AR-15 and cleared the chamber, and then removed the magazine, and put a round into the floor of his living room.
On numerous occasions?? he's done this more then once and still hasn't learned. ?? Yikes.
only twice, that i know of, but it's still pretty bad.
Especially considering you don’t even have to pull the trigger to field strip an AR-15.
My "friend" thought it would be a good idea to take some of the potatoes we were shooting at and jam one on the end of his Mossberg 500 barrel, yelled "POTATO SILENCER" then torched one off. Though no split barrel resulted, I don't think "he'll" ever get all that starch off of his shotgun…
At any public range or shooting area you will find fools, morons, and idiots. If you see something unsafe let the Range Safety Officers(RSO) know, they will appreciate it. If there are no RSO's; the smart thing is to pack up and leave quickly ! Especially, if there is any alcohol present. The video was funny and point made. The Proper Safety Rules should be added.
I had a friend with an XD pistol, for those that aren't too familiar, when cocked, a small pin sticks out of the back indicating that the pistol is in the cocked position. Well, on this ocation he had removed the magazine while sitting in a chair to begin cleaning it. Noticed the pin was out, so he pointed it down over the arm of the chair, pulled the trigger to decock the pistol, and instead fired a round into his calf. Oops!
I've seen a guy fist-slam a cover closed on an M240 that wouldn't sit right hard enough to send a round into a nearby trailer on the edge of the range.
When I was about 10 or 11, my father showed his newly acquired Polish Radom P35 to so friends. He chambered a round then ejected the magazine. About that time, my mom called him into the kitchen to help carve the roast beef. A few seconds later we hear BANG! and some swearing. Running into the kitchen I see my dad, looking chagrined, holding the pistol which was still pointing down at the nice hole in the kitchen floor.
Mark, don't tell on your Dad on Father's Day weekend.
Love,
Dad
…I stopped the truck about 50 yards from him and started to lean over. Out of the corner of my eye, I see a puff of gray and then the twinkling of auto safety glass. Hi wife started to scream and as i sat up, I noticed that my white t-shirt was no longer white – there was a surprising amount of blood on it. The bullet had gone through the windshield, nicked the dash and then through the top of my shoulder. K later told me that while on the hike, he had a magazine of FMJ in his gun and had switched to JHP once in town, forgetting that he had chambered a round. The basic rule (always treat a firearm as if it was loaded) had been violated. Thirty years later, we remain friends and I have an interesting scar and story.
Holy F!! That's kinda f'd up. You must like that guy…and I bet he was pretty apologetic.
He and the rest of the guys who were there gave me a Purple Heart they obtained somewhere about a week later, on my birthday. Along with a cake. They had given me first aid but we couldn't go to the hospital as that would create a police report and potential difficulty with their Army careers. The wound got infected and the doctor at them campus infirmery didn't look like he believed my story of running through a construction site and tripping and landing on some rebar.
Ya. I can see how that would cause problems. But it was an accident…and he is your teammate…and teammates cover each other. At least everyone carried on with their lives and no one was killed and nobodies career was cut short. Hind site is always 20/20
I was at the river shooting a Ruger 41 Mag when a guy wanted to shoot it so I put one round in it for him and he laid it across his arm to sight it, I told him not to fire it this way, his responce was , don't tell me how to shoot, I said fine. He fired and got around 30,000 PSI across his arm. needless to say he got quiet mad.
He can't say you didn't warn him. He should be mad at himself…for not listening.
A few years ago i was in my big back yard teaching a few friend who have never shot before how to shot and let them try out a few different guns. I went through all the safety stuff and basic function of the guns. We start shooting and one of my friends has my 20ga shotgun with bird shot in it. three of us are standing off to the side and slightly behind him. He pumps a shell in stands there and turns gun and all towards all of us and says so now i just pull the trigger. all three of us dove to the side. He still hasn't lived down the time he almost shot all of his fiends at once
Ya…but he gets it now. Some never learn.
You're friends with Dick Cheney?
…I keed, I keed.
I think schools and parents need to teach every kid gun safety. Remember when people were complaining when their Remmy 'went off' even thought the safety was on? I mean they pulled the trigger while it was pointing at someone. Come on.
We should teach gun ed rather than sex ed to 6th graders.
i was at the range with a friend of mine testing out my new mossberg 500. my friend has a bad habit of keeping his finger on the trigger AT ALL TIMES. i've told him to watch it in the past, but does he. nope.
so i hand him the shotgun and he racks it to put a shell in the chamber, but then turns around and starts talking to me (finger still on the trigger). all of a sudden, BAM. the gun discharges into the ground maybe a foot and a half away from his foot..
the sad thing is, he still hasn't learned. his finger is still always on the trigger.
Went to the outdoor range to put some rounds through my weatherby shotgun, which is very very light weight. I normally shoot regular 2/34 rounds however the gun can chamber 3 inch as well. I also had a box of "mystery" rounds, old shottie rounds given to me by my father. Most of the text on the rounds was unreadable. I did know they were 3 inch, that's about it. I load 2, pump, and fire. BOOM! my body snapped backwards so fast I'm surprised I didnt fall over. I had a good stockweld and it still caught the bone under my eye and an received an instant headache. ouch. My response? "WTF was that?" followed by me pumping another round and doing it again of course. lol. I ended up bruised and later found out I was shooting 3 inch mag turkey loads through one of the lightest shotguns out there… never again. Always know what you are shooting!