Frank46
US Veteran
Those German training rounds work even better in a bolt action. 9 out ot 10 times they will stick in the plywood backer boards with the back end sticking out. Frank
How to kill a bathroom sink with one shot
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So glad to read that no one was injured! Know one officer who was "cleaning" his revolver. When finished, he did some dry fire practice on the back porch. Then he loaded the revolver. Later he absent mindedly picked up the revolver to do some more dry fire practice. At one point he took aim at the family cat. Used a 125 gr. JHP .357 S&W Magnum load. Big mess. He followed the Three S rule ... Shoot, Shovel, Shut-up. That Three S rule is a good one! His wife did not know what happened to the cat until several years after his death. That officer was a wise man! Sincerely. bruce.
That was EXACTLY my experience when it happened to me. I'll spare everyone the long boring story, but I had a stupid discharge with a Colt Government Model 45 about 30? 35 years ago?
My first thought was "What the BLEEP just happened? HOLY BLEEP!! It went off!
I never heard a thing. The magazine was out, so the gun went right back to battery so fast it didn't register what had happened. I felt no recoil. My wife's uncle, in the next room, through an open double door, maybe 20 feet away, thought I'd "popped a primer" (I used a Lee "wack a mole" reloading kit.) reloading. Neither my mother and law, nor my wife, just down the hall heard a thing.
The bullet, a 230 grain RNL, went into the side of a bookcase, clipped the tops of several books, out the other side, through a heavy drape and hit the metal frame of the sliding glass door, leaving a dent as big as my thumb. I never did find the bullet. It didn't leave the house, neither glass door was damaged, but I never found it, in spite of looking for it darn near every time I opened that door.
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john14_18
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No wife 
.It's a hallway half bath and luckily no one was sitting on comode 2 feet in front of it because when it hit, it just exploded. The picture is after I swept everything up.
.It's a hallway half bath and luckily no one was sitting on comode 2 feet in front of it because when it hit, it just exploded. The picture is after I swept everything up.
DWalt
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Back in my very young days I put a .30-'06 round through my bedroom ceiling from a M1903 I thought was empty. What I remember most about that incident was the lack of noise. I guess it was such a surprise my brain blocked the noise. Back in my high school days I had a friend who got a .270 bullet through his thigh from a neighbor in the apartment below his. He was very lucky that it didn't hit anything vital. But he was incapacitated for quite a while.
nachogrande
Member
FULL DISCLOSURE.
Your honesty is without question. You got a refresher course in safe gun handling, don't expect a third.
NO ANGEL HERE, my ND came after the wife told me I was in no condition to go turkey hunting. Tennis elbow so bad in my left arm I couldn't hold a coffee cup or turn my wrist to read my watch. When a shot opportunity came My left arm dropped the forearm of the shotgun, it landed right on my trigger finger 
& LUCKILY all I hit was dirt. The hard part was telling the wife she was right. 
Your honesty is without question. You got a refresher course in safe gun handling, don't expect a third.
NO ANGEL HERE, my ND came after the wife told me I was in no condition to go turkey hunting. Tennis elbow so bad in my left arm I couldn't hold a coffee cup or turn my wrist to read my watch. When a shot opportunity came My left arm dropped the forearm of the shotgun, it landed right on my trigger finger & LUCKILY all I hit was dirt. The hard part was telling the wife she was right. 
I actually posted this last night around 4:00 AM, but got embarrassed, and deleted it.
My dad got me shooting around the age of 6, and I'm 61 now. Never had a negligent discharge until a couple years ago. Totally my fault/stupidity.
Was watching TV in my living room, and thought I'd strip down, and clean and oil a newish AR bolt I had in a 7.5" 5.56 SBR AR.
I put 5 rounds in a mag and ejected them to make sure everything was cool, which I knew it would be. I was sitting in the floor working on it, with a mat laying on the laminate flooring.
Laid the AR on the floor, and went to put the mat up. Came back to pick the AR up off the floor, and in the process I tapped the trigger. SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE! "in my best Gomer Pyle impression." There was a magic 6th round in it.
Bullet made it half way under the couch which only sits 3 1/2" off the floor before coming in contact with the floor, then ricocheted up about 4" and went thru the wall. How it didn't touch the couch is still a mystery. I held my breath while I opened the front door to see if it exited the block wall. It didn't.
The damage is about a foot or so from a little tile foyer, and I have a half box of unused laminate, so I can fix it if I ever decide to move the couch.
The gash is around 7" long. AR's are monster loud outside with a 16" barrel. I hope none of you ever hear one inside thru a 7.5" barrel!
My dad got me shooting around the age of 6, and I'm 61 now. Never had a negligent discharge until a couple years ago. Totally my fault/stupidity.
Was watching TV in my living room, and thought I'd strip down, and clean and oil a newish AR bolt I had in a 7.5" 5.56 SBR AR.
I put 5 rounds in a mag and ejected them to make sure everything was cool, which I knew it would be. I was sitting in the floor working on it, with a mat laying on the laminate flooring.
Laid the AR on the floor, and went to put the mat up. Came back to pick the AR up off the floor, and in the process I tapped the trigger. SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE! "in my best Gomer Pyle impression." There was a magic 6th round in it.
Bullet made it half way under the couch which only sits 3 1/2" off the floor before coming in contact with the floor, then ricocheted up about 4" and went thru the wall. How it didn't touch the couch is still a mystery. I held my breath while I opened the front door to see if it exited the block wall. It didn't.
The damage is about a foot or so from a little tile foyer, and I have a half box of unused laminate, so I can fix it if I ever decide to move the couch.
The gash is around 7" long. AR's are monster loud outside with a 16" barrel. I hope none of you ever hear one inside thru a 7.5" barrel!
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It Happens. About 30 years ago I carried a 3" Model 65. I had just gotten home in the wee hours with half a load on. For some reason I was cocking the hammer and letting it down until the "earth shattering kaboom." I had to knock the smoke detector off the wall to get quiet. Nice round entrance hole in the ceiling, that 125gr Federal HP took out part of a roof truss and the exit hole on the roof looked like a porcupine exploded. While fixing the damage next morning I decided to quit drinking, which I did about 8 months later. I'm a slow learner. Joe
Whitwabit
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Worked construction when I first got out of the AF .. My boss took a cash job where some guy did the same as you but his round went thru the wall and struck a commode on the other side cracking it causing a bit of water damage ..
His wife was in Florida and he wanted it fixed so she wouldn't ever know .. and she was coming back in 2 days .. We fixed it up like new and made 3 times what the job would normally cost .. He called it hush money .. gave each of us an envelope and when he handed it to us told each of us " You have never been here !!"
We laughed about it for years after ..I always wondered if she ever found out !!
His wife was in Florida and he wanted it fixed so she wouldn't ever know .. and she was coming back in 2 days .. We fixed it up like new and made 3 times what the job would normally cost .. He called it hush money .. gave each of us an envelope and when he handed it to us told each of us " You have never been here !!"
We laughed about it for years after ..I always wondered if she ever found out !!
LVSteve
Member
Well gosh darn it, now you've gone and told everybody...
Definitely no blood trail or tracking job required......Your sink is DRT........
BigBill
Absent Comrade
Let's see the drain needed cleaning, you want to remodel the bathroom anyway,
When I first ccw a 1911 in a shoulder holster I had a empty chamber. At night after work I would pull the mag and pull the trigger. One night something told me to check the chamber. It chambered a round when I stuck it in the mag. I was lucky I checked it. From then on cocked and locked.
When I first ccw a 1911 in a shoulder holster I had a empty chamber. At night after work I would pull the mag and pull the trigger. One night something told me to check the chamber. It chambered a round when I stuck it in the mag. I was lucky I checked it. From then on cocked and locked.
kwselke
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Please post pictures of the guns.
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john14_18
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howiema
Member
Wow- just when you thought you have read it all.
Lets gets this straight:
You shot yourself in the hand
Shot your bathroom apart - some 38 years later.
John with all due respect:
Take an NRA safety course again and sell all of your guns.
Good Luck
Pete
Lets gets this straight:
You shot yourself in the hand
Shot your bathroom apart - some 38 years later.
John with all due respect:
Take an NRA safety course again and sell all of your guns.
Good Luck
Pete
I may have told this here before, so forgive me if it's a repeat to anyone. I was newly married in 1978 and the following winter we moved into a larger metropolitan area where I felt I needed a handgun for the house. Being winter (where construction work naturally slows down) and during the worst economic times of my life, I ended up with a Ruger Single Six, and for some reason had it loaded with shot shells.
The wife was cooking supper and I was playing with my unloaded gun (Yeah, right. I only thought it was unloaded), when I pull back the hammer and purposely pointed it at the floor and pulled the trigger.
Boy were we both surprised to hear a gun go off in the house (trailer). Fortunately 22 shot shells didn't penetrate the shag carpet, padding and subfloor. No holes could be found, so I did not have to tell the landlady about it. Even more fortunate, at least one of the rules for handling guns stuck with me. Keep your firearm pointed in a safe direction at all times.
One other time, more recently (another Ruger single action) my cotton gloves slipped off the hammer while I was farting around with my .41 magnum in a deer blind. 10 years later, I still have a hole in my blind, and my ears are still ringing. They ring all the time these days.
The wife was cooking supper and I was playing with my unloaded gun (Yeah, right. I only thought it was unloaded), when I pull back the hammer and purposely pointed it at the floor and pulled the trigger.
Boy were we both surprised to hear a gun go off in the house (trailer). Fortunately 22 shot shells didn't penetrate the shag carpet, padding and subfloor. No holes could be found, so I did not have to tell the landlady about it. Even more fortunate, at least one of the rules for handling guns stuck with me. Keep your firearm pointed in a safe direction at all times.
One other time, more recently (another Ruger single action) my cotton gloves slipped off the hammer while I was farting around with my .41 magnum in a deer blind. 10 years later, I still have a hole in my blind, and my ears are still ringing. They ring all the time these days.
I was going to wait until forever to tell of my latest mishap, but owe it to OP to ring in and let him know he's not alone. This occurred on a Sunday night early last October.
First, I have 2 HK Elites. One is my nitestand and the other is empty for gen purposes, whatever you want to call it. I was watching a youtube vid of Israeli Security Forces about their technique in handgun draw, point and shoot. Lot of differences from my own, which is just get it out and shoot. I practiced dry firing at my TV at people and went back to the youtube vid to have a second look, then I picked up the wrong HK. There is a 1 inch steel brace in the TV, pretty heavy and just by luck the bullet hit it instead of going completely through the TV and through a wall. I went outside to check initially to see if I had a hole on the outside and the dogs were nowhere to be found. I then found out the TV stopped the bullet.
After my AD in the early 80s I swore never again. That was with a 44 mag going off as I was re-holstering. Had a large black and blue bruise on my hip. No one was hurt in either case except for a case of extreme self denial and nerves for a while.
First, I have 2 HK Elites. One is my nitestand and the other is empty for gen purposes, whatever you want to call it. I was watching a youtube vid of Israeli Security Forces about their technique in handgun draw, point and shoot. Lot of differences from my own, which is just get it out and shoot. I practiced dry firing at my TV at people and went back to the youtube vid to have a second look, then I picked up the wrong HK. There is a 1 inch steel brace in the TV, pretty heavy and just by luck the bullet hit it instead of going completely through the TV and through a wall. I went outside to check initially to see if I had a hole on the outside and the dogs were nowhere to be found. I then found out the TV stopped the bullet.
After my AD in the early 80s I swore never again. That was with a 44 mag going off as I was re-holstering. Had a large black and blue bruise on my hip. No one was hurt in either case except for a case of extreme self denial and nerves for a while.
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