Gentlemen:

Result of a moment of inattention.


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Ralph

Kinda like me getting my finger caught in the rope while tying up my wifes horse. You do 1000's of times but it only takes one time of a split second of inattention to change your life forever.

I never put a loaded clip in my semi auto 22 pistol til I'm ready to shoot or carrying it the holster. Even in the holster I don't put one in the chamber.

RJ

I just can't emagine pulling a trigger with your hand in front of the barrel, or for that matter anything in front of the barrel you don't intend shooting. This smacks not so much as a mistake, but just plain silly.

I honestly don't see how anybody can NOT know their gun is loaded. I am only 16, but anytime I ever handle my guns when i'm at home I always make sure the chamber is empty. It don't matter wether i'm cleaning the gun or disassembling it or even when I practice shouldering my shotgun I ALWAYS check the magazine and the chamber.

pretty scary stuff,
i tend to agree with recoil junky, facettb, and maser on this one bout not wanting to pull the trigger with anything in front of the gun you dont intend to shoot. i struggle with the idea of tubular magazines on rimfire lever and pump guns where your hand is out the front when moving the spring out for loading.
that story reminds me when i was using a borrowed winchester .243 bolt gun to drop a few goats and i had never used this particular rifle before and at that stage barely used a gun by myself. i put a couple of rounds through the rifle in the house paddock and got comfortable with it and then loaded the self contained mag and carefully closed the bolt on an "empty" chamber. caught up with the goats after some serious stalking and set the bolt through its paces to load it up and bugger me, a round flew out with me cycling the bolt! i had been walking around for 2 hours with a round in the chamber!
you know how you get that feeling when you're leaning back on a chair and then you suddenly go too far but catch yourself? yeah i got that real cold shiver down my spine.
double check, then check again.
happy SAFE hunting and shooting.
lockie

Guns are always loaded. Twice I have been handed a loaded gun while browsing in a gunshop. In one incident the gun was a 32 auto that at least 5 other guys had looked at before it was handed to me. I saw each one of them pull the slide back. When I got it, I looked into the chamber and saw a round. The extractor was broken. Another time it was a M11 9mm. The shop owner handed it to me and I pulled the slide back. A live round popped out. The owner almost pooped his pants.

Tube magazine 22's are notorious for having rounds hang up in the tube when you go to pour them out. A little crud in there is all it takes. I had an old Savage I used to use in gun safety classes to demonstrate this, it would hold back a couple every time, with total dependability.

While working for WW and visiting the plant in New Haven, I always like to go over to the repair departmnt and talk to Carl Hummel. Also go up and watch the old master smiths work on 21's!
What was amazing to me was the number of guns come into for repair that were loaded!
Another thing that happened in South Carolins while working for WW.....A smith was getting ready to pull a buttstock from a Ruger No1. He had the rifle in a well padded vice at abput 45 degrees, dropped a tool into the hole in the butstock, only the see and hear an explosion! The tool went through the roof and the buttstock was split! The owner of the rifle had wrapped some 06's in paper and put them in the hole.
This are just more example of what we are talking about......along with some reloading preactices!.....James