stupid gun momments

When I was first learning to shoot skeet I was using my SxS and it had an automatic safety. I forgot to turn it off once and missed an easy shot. My friend must have forgot it 15 times. I was trying so hard not to laugh, especially when he got angry and said he knew the safety was on. Of course you did.

Had another incident when my shotgun was loaded and I was waiting for another clay. The shotgun tapped my leg, finger was off trigger, doubled and spun me around. Scared me silly. The gun went to the gunsmith to be rebuilt the same day. I'm just glad the muzzle was always downrange until it unloaded itself.

My most recent was when I went to register my gun with the police. Michigan law states that a gun must be either cased or have a lock on it to be presented for inspection. I opted for the lock seeing how I didn't have a case and the cops freaked out. They told me to put it in a paper bag or wrap it in a towel next time. I was well within the law but I won't do that again. Reciting the law to them didn't make matters much better, it doesn't always pay to be well informed. At least they were nice about it.

I do not have stupid gun moments. These were spontaneous occurances without intent. A few time I could have gotten killed, even with protection. I take te time to shoot alot, and have had many experiences. Take all chances to eliminate error.

I was doing trigger, hammer, springs, and sear work on one of my Paras and it went full-auto a few times. No big deal just a little surprising. I fixed it and went on shooting.

I was shooting a friends beretta tip-up auto once and loaded 1 round via the barrel. I saw the switch that tipped up the barrel went up and back down and I thought weird. I asked him if it should do that and he said shoot it. The barrel tipped out after firing and exploded in my hand to a half feild stripped but still together mess.

I got hit by a ricochet in the leg at an indoor range when someone elses bullets were bouncing off the walls and hitting me. I went p to the store counter and told the employee I got hit, and he asked "awwww do you want a bandaid?"

Working a shooters sight-in for a club im a member at a friend got hit with a ricochet in the face and cut his cheek pretty bad. This was in the pits downrange and it bounced off a target holder.

I will think of more later.

Shooting wobble trap down the street, My Mossberg decided to puke and not hold rounds in the tube anymore. A shell dropped out the bottom and the brass dented on a nail on the stand. In a suddent fit of stupidity I tossed it in the can for spent shells. One of those moments when you realize the instant after doing the stupid thing that you did a stupid thing. Kinda like the moment in between commenting on your wifes "does this make me look fat?" question and getting smacked. I spent the next five minutes digging through a 50 gallon trash can of spent shells for that one live shell.

I was function testing that Mossberg 12 guage that was picky about feeding and ejecting with some snap caps, was looking into the ejection port and trying to move the slide slowly to see that everything was working properly, when the phone rang and I racked it hard by accident and ejected the all aluminum azoom right into my eyebrow. That felt great.

A fellow shooter at the range offered to let me shoot a revolver of his. It was the first time I'd ever shot a big bore anything. I had been shooting my 9mm with a 15 round magizine that day. I flinched bad when I tried to fire that 7th shot. We both got a good laugh when nothing happened.