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Feelin Nostalgic...your first accidental discharge #6171214 02/05/16 11:43 PM
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Mine was picking up my Sheridan pellet gun, wondering if it was loaded.......with a hole though my bedroom ceiling, I got my answer.


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my bil and my two nephews were at the farm for peasant hunt,the youngest was in the back seat, fired off a round that went through the floor board, blew all the wiring to tail lights ect,


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I have only had one and it was one too many. Thank God no one was injured but it was a learning experience and I was old enough, been around guns enough, that it should never ever have happened. Thought I was dry firing a S&W M66 - only it wasn't dry. Have never made that mistake again but sorry to say I did the one time.

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My one and only was with a makarov pistol.

I had been out filling feeders all day and had been rained on by corn. I got home, unholstered the pistol. Pointed it into the void between safe and wall and hit the decock lever. A piece of corn must have bridge the gap between the hammer and firing pin as I not only had to change my undershorts, but had corn shrapnel stuck in my neck and face from the slide doing it's thing. It was sure enough negligence on my part for not checking the weapon.

I have only onwned single action autos from that point forward.

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I want so bad to make an R rated response, but I'll be quiet.

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We had been target shooting out at the farm. I put a loaded shotgun in the cargo area of my xterra, planning to come back to it later. Only, we never shot it again that day. While we were loading up, I leaned it against the back seat, something shifted, and hit the trigger, and blew a hole in the roof of my car about 4" wide.


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I had my .270 on an elk hunt several years ago. Something was off in the action. If the trigger was pulled with the safety on, it would fire when the safety was released. I didn't know this at the time. The trigger had been bumped, apparently, and when we had reached the road that evening to hitch a ride to camp, I released the safety to unload the rifle. It went off. We were safe since I had the muzzle pointed at the sky, but it sure surprised the hell out of us. Shortly after, another hunter stopped by to give us a lift. He asked if that was us that just shot. I told him it was somebody down the road. I was still too embarrassed to admit to what actually happened.

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Originally Posted By: Sneaky
I had my .270 on an elk hunt several years ago. Something was off in the action. If the trigger was pulled with the safety on, it would fire when the safety was released. I didn't know this at the time. The trigger had been bumped, apparently, and when we had reached the road that evening to hitch a ride to camp, I released the safety to unload the rifle. It went off. We were safe since I had the muzzle pointed at the sky, but it sure surprised the hell out of us. Shortly after, another hunter stopped by to give us a lift. He asked if that was us that just shot. I told him it was somebody down the road. I was still too embarrassed to admit to what actually happened.


My dad's rifle did that on an elk hunt, only when it happened, he was getting set up to shoot a 5x5.


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I closed the bolt on a 700 in 300 win mag and it fired. I was at the gun range and it was on sand bags pointed down range. It still shook me up. It had the older trigger everybody loves so much.

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Ruger security six. Cleaned it while my Dad was off visiting Grandpa, and afterward put what I thought was 6 empties in it to dry fire. Unfortunately one was a wadcutter eeks333 Shot a hole in the living room wall that blew out the plaster on the outside of the house. Scared Mom's cannery so bad all its feathers fell out and it died a week later. As for me, lets just say deer season was a real bummer that year, cause Dad would look at me right before he shot 2 big muley bucks and say "remember the wall". That would have been my first year to hunt mule deer. Never forgot that lesson. Learned me to be VERY careful. up


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Originally Posted By: Tff caribou
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I had my .270 on an elk hunt several years ago. Something was off in the action. If the trigger was pulled with the safety on, it would fire when the safety was released. I didn't know this at the time. The trigger had been bumped, apparently, and when we had reached the road that evening to hitch a ride to camp, I released the safety to unload the rifle. It went off. We were safe since I had the muzzle pointed at the sky, but it sure surprised the hell out of us. Shortly after, another hunter stopped by to give us a lift. He asked if that was us that just shot. I told him it was somebody down the road. I was still too embarrassed to admit to what actually happened.


My dad's rifle did that on an elk hunt, only when it happened, he was getting set up to shoot a 5x5.


I remember thinking about that possibility and how disappointing it would have been, or possibly worse.

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And I've always wondered where that bullet landed.

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Only one I have ever had was when I was 16ish. Was at a home made range and shooting from 100 yards. Had a 700 rem 30-06. Was on target but not on target if that makes sense, and clicked off the safety and the gun went off. Still hit the berm thankfully

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Watched my buddy in college blow a hole thru his ceiling in a rent house

Still laugh about it, but it was loud in that room. Was trying to show me how awesome the trigger on a 1100 was rofl

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My buddy brought over his full auto AK47u and a FA Tec 22 in high school. Shot about 3 mags through the 22 dropped the last mag and put the gun next to my mouth to blow the smoke like a little Billy Bad Azz and pulled the trigger. Damn near blew my nose off. Now I rack and clear every gun I pick up.


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Never had an AD out of a gun. Thank God. I did have an AD one time when I dropped a bag of 45acp. There were probably 50rds in a zip lock bag, dropped them on sidewalk, one round went off. I stood in disbelief for a few seconds. I have a new found respect for loose ammo and primers.

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am too embarrassed to admit

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Originally Posted By: cabosandinh
am too embarrassed to admit


Well, you just did. May as well share the details.


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Dad taught me well, never had that happen. Closest I can come is a firecracker I was going to throw out the window of my car with a short fuse...WHAT DID YOU SAY???


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My dad taught me well too. And I would guess we were all taught well. Which is why none of these stories has ended with an injury. Follow the rules of firearm safety, and if, God forbid, an accident happens, nobosy gets hurt.


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I was drawin my bow back while shooting in tha yard.. Dloop broke almost at full draw and was young so I was rared back lookin behind me with bow pointed at the sky.. Pretty sure it landed in the next county... Never with a gun... Ever

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Thank God its never happened to me and I pray it never does! Have been around a handful though. Worst one was at the Market Hall Gun Show several years ago. The place went dead silent right after it happened!

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Originally Posted By: Stratgolfer
Closest I can come is a firecracker I was going to throw out the window of my car with a short fuse...WHAT DID YOU SAY???


I learned at an early age that some of them fuses be mighty fast! roflmao !!

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8 years old. .22 bolt action with the pull back bolt. I was pointing it down towards my foot to get leverage, bolt slipped and fired a round right through the tip of my shoe.. luckily it didn't hit my toe.

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Wait a minute. Colt45 says he was hunting peasants. Isn't that illegal?

My first AD was when I was a teen. I was at the town dump shooting cans and bottles and rats with my Stevens 87D semiauto 22. A car load of older women (cute cheerleaders that I had a crush on) drove up and asked what I was doing. I rested the muzzle of the 22 on the toe of my right Converse Allstar sneaker while I nervously talked to all the hot girls from my school. They got ready to leave and I lifted the rifle and I guess I lifted it by the trigger and shot a hole in the end of my converse sneaker. They asked if I was Ok, and I lied and said "yup". As soon as they were out of sight, I shucked off the shoe and found that the bullet had passed between the ends of the big toe and the one next to it. No skin lost. Very lucky.

On that old Stevens autoloader, the safety is a slide type on the right side. Two screws hold the slide in place, and if the screws get loose, the safety doesn't work.


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