My Stupid Dangerous Discharge Lesson. Even the best make mistakes

[41mag]

With me being a retired part time professional soldier: I have a hard time just agreeing with this statement.

I understand, I don't like the way that sounds either.
Especially since I work part time at a gun club.....
I carry trauma gear/tourniquets and such, but I'm hoping to never need them.

I dont particularly like the way it sounds either......but it is more true than false. Odds are just too great.

Unless you just carry your gun around and dont shoot it, remove/reload the one in the chamber often, fiddle with it in general while cleaning/maintaining, dry fire practice......they all give a potential for a ND.

AS I SAID....my statement might not be easy to agree with but it is true!

 

[Thomas Eeyore]

You got off cheap. Replace a large sliding glass door. Lesson learned. BIL was putzing with a Sig I never kept one in the chamber. Point click boom. You will never see me not open the action of any firearm handed to me.

The only problem I have with one not chamber when carrying is that I watch a video of a store owner and his son die because he had to chamber one when he drew on the bad guy.

 

[MRM]

I'm just going to have to start paying more attention being in a high at-risk category.
There are only a few things a man actually controls in this world.

I dont particularly like the way it sounds either......but it is more true than false. Odds are just too great.

Unless you just carry your gun around and dont shoot it, remove/reload the one in the chamber often, fiddle with it in general while cleaning/maintaining, dry fire practice......they all give a potential for a ND.

AS I SAID....my statement might not be easy to agree with but it is true!

 

[MRM]

I suppose 3 is low, however, I am sure nobody chocked it up to odds or stuff happens.

I work for Glock and in the past 6 years we have had to use that Trauma gear 3 times. The odds are against us with 10,000 guns being shot a day.

I had a captain once that loved to grab the butterfly on the way out of his hatch. Didn't stop his promotion, so...

 

[41mag]

I'm just going to have to start paying more attention being in a high at-risk category.
There are only a few things a man actually controls in this world.

This is true too.
Godspeed

 

[MRM]

Thanks brother. You too. Your words did not fall on deaf ears. I am surely not perfect.

 

[palmettomoon]

The only problem I have with one not chamber when carrying is that I watch a video of a store owner and his son die because he had to chamber one when he drew on the bad guy.

Coffee table gun....in SC.....way before you could carry (other than going hunting or the range).

 

[kimchee45]

I work for Glock and in the past 6 years we have had to use that Trauma gear 3 times. The odds are against us with 10,000 guns being shot a day.

Damn ! That has to be a tough job, using the Trauma Gear !
I don't think I would have the stomach for it, but I WOULD TRY MY BEST, to save, or even help someone in pain !

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[jeffk14]

I work for Glock and in the past 6 years we have had to use that Trauma gear 3 times. The odds are against us with 10,000 guns being shot a day.

Wha... Huh... How? Care to elaborate? I'm really curious.

 

[kimchee45]

"Two kinds of gun handlers:
Those who have had ND
Those waiting to have a ND"

I dont particularly like the way it sounds either......but it is more true than false. Odds are just too great.

Unless you just carry your gun around and dont shoot it, remove/reload the one in the chamber often, fiddle with it in general while cleaning/maintaining, dry fire practice......they all give a potential for a ND.

AS I SAID....my statement might not be easy to agree with but it is true!

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A famous Gun Scribe in one of the Gun Magazines said that often.
Can't remember the Mag. or the scribe, Perhaps "Shooting Times", or Guns and Ammo, Skeeter Skelton, Bill Jordan or Elmer Keith, or, perhaps Colonel Cooper ? as I always read their articles.
Ole Elmer Keith, was a real HOOT !

I loved his 600 Yard Outhouse Target !
I have several "Elmer Keith Memorial Targets".
A Zerox copy of an outhouse almost 5 inches high and 3 inches wide, with this, printed at the top ...

"If placed at 25 yards, this target simulates Elmer's famous 600 Yard Out house shot.
Scoring: A 'Hit' is counted as a 'Hit'. A 'Miss' is counted as a 'Miss'.
Minimum Caliber : 44 Magnum. Anything smaller is for sissies. (Elmer was not a sissy !)"

Actually, I think the 'Black and White' thing is easier than what Elmer did, since the outhouse was semi-camouflaged.
Similar color to the background.

Sorry ! I got off topic there !

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