billfromtx

I was 15 and my buddy had an old 38 revolver that he kept under his mattress (for some reason)...He showed it to me and left the room...I swung open the cylinder making sure it was unloaded. I swear to God I looked at the holes and it was unloaded!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Closed the cylinder and pulled the trigger for some unknown reason, Hey it was unloaded...Well you guessed it. It went boom! the thought of it still sends shivers up my spine...
1 hole thru the wall
1 Dryer killed

To this day I never ever ever ever ever ever pull the trigger unless I want the gun to go bang!!!!!!!!!!

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USMC 1984-1992
To err is human.
To forgive is divine.
Neither of which is Marine Corps policy.

"It's all about shot placement."- David (Slayer of Goliath)

10thmtn

My only ND was in the Army - with an M60 machine gun! Fortunately, it was only loaded with blanks for training.

It was my turn to hump the "pig" even though I had very minimal training on it. We settled into a defensive position, and I put the safety on what I thought was the "Safe" position (the markings had long since been worn away). I lightly pulled the trigger to be sure, expecting to feel resistance. Instead, I got a 5 round burst.

Got my posterior chewed really good for that one!

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The People ARE the Militia, and have a DUTY (not just a right) to be both armed and proficient in the use of said arms.
Ex-Army officer; Hurricane Andrew Relief, FL, 1992; Operation Restore Hope, Somalia, 1993
NRA Life Member; Range Safety Officer
Glock 26, CT Laserguard, Smartcarry

HITCH KING

No mistakes as of yet, YET. It makes a big person to admit their mistakes.

Pistology

Mistakenly, I put a .40 shell in a .45 mag at the range where I took both guns to practice. They are both M&P compacts - similar but different. For the curious, the shot was dead on target, but the shell didn't eject. It sat cracked and expanded in the breech end of the barrel.

It took some digging at the casing and blame shifting before it dawned on me my mistake. It was the mistake that I didn't think that I was wrong.

The barrel has no apparent nicks.

I take only one gun at a time to the range now and check the ammo before I leave the house. The switch of barrels from .40 to .357_Sig in the same frame is a problem that my zero-degrees-of-freedom plan upon leaving the house should resolve.

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We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. - Yitzhak Rabin

nedrgr21

10mtn - I laughed my butt off reading that, good thing they were blanks. Imagined I was there - platoon whispering and using hand signals, slight "clinging" of sling keepers and web gear, a click, everything settles down, dead silence, then "DAT DAT DAT DAT DAT". Worse than farting on a wood pew in church. Hey, go big or go home, right?

Time to fess up - messing with a conversion barrel and shot a 9mm in a 40 barrel. Just a weird sound and very belled case mouth. When I first started hunting (family wasn't into hunting so I wasn't brought up around guns) I was quickly unloading the cartridges w/o the safety on by working the bolt on my Rem 700 and apparently somehow got a finger on the trigger. Scared the piss out of me - still don't see how it happened, but it definitely went off.

JeffMRC

I went to the local law enforcement equipment and uniform shop to get a holster for my new S&W 5903 9mm. I had the pistol unloaded for sure in the plastic carry case. At the counter the assistant asked to see my pistol to match a holster. I took the pistol out and swept it right across her chest. She took in a very quick and panicked breath and swore. I knew immediately what I had done but being young and stupid I just brushed it off, said it wasn't loaded, and kept talking. She was visibly upset. I was embarrassed and shaking when I got out of there. Haven't made the same mistake since then - 15 years ago. It's a huge part of how I teach my boys now.

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S&W 5903 / S&W M&P9c / S&W 357 Model 28 Highway Patrolman

"I wish I would have done the hard things when they were easier to do."

tangoseal

The legendary M16 and its very unstable FCG.

Was sitting in a weapons rack. The very junior e-2 promised me it was unloaded.
I did not take his word for it. I simply took it off the weapons rack to check his claim. Weapon fell right out of my hands. BOOM! a single round discharged. Punched through a 0.5" aluminum sheet and died in a tree somewhere in the woods or in the ground.

Needless to say that little punk got some nice Pecs after that.

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QKShooter

zdinnd....You actually managed to murder your TV?
You really did that?

HITCH KING

Family friend many years as LEO praticing drawing in front of the mirror put a round thru mirror,bedroom wall into bathroom and into oppisite wall.