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To funny. I have no desire to hold that little lcr ever again. It's a fine weapon but I just don't want to touch it. I'm not necessarily fearful of it. More of the feeling that this was the one that bit me.
I think that's why A kept it. I can understand the "it's the one that bit me" mentality but, at base, I'll always be a horse trainer. If you get bucked off you d***ed sure better get up and get back on. No aspersions on your decision to let the gun go at all, just saying my way of looking at it varies from yours. I haven't personally had an ND (yet, as so many have said it's not if it's when) but I have had the benefit of learning from someone else's mistake, at immediate second hand. I'd been raised with the four rules and gun safety all my life, but let me tell you that incident had an impact on me.
Kudos to you for posting about yours and being straight up about where the fault lies. I would be interested to hear if the gun checked out clean, myself, just as a matter of curiosity... My Darlin Man is a gunsmith and I can't count the number of times I've heard him say "That's just not POSSIBLE" about some malfunction or breakage in a gun... or a literal bug in the works. So it is remotely possible that it was a combination of your forgetting/ignoring the rules *and* a little help from a flaw/malfunction in the gun.
Don't think the gun is necessarily broken, mind, just have that curious urge to find out what the final verdict is on it one way or another.
That wound is sick.


