Importance of gun safety...GRAPHIC

Glad he's OK
There goes the career as a hand model.
Not nearly as destructive as the pic. of the
dude who decided to shoot a .500 S&W revolver
with his free hand in "Front" of the cylinder.... OUCH....
I've had some AD's as well. But the muzzle was
always pointed in a safe direction.

Chuck
 
Wait.. Don't Xds have a sight hole to see if its chambered?

Also I gotta agree with whoever said its the ones who say it won't happen to me. Complacency is a main reason for accidents

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Wait.. Don't Xds have a sight hole to see if its chambered?

Also I gotta agree with whoever said its the ones who say it won't happen to me. Complacency is a main reason for accidents

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It has a loaded chamber indicator. A small bar that raises up. I CCW an XDm and press ckeck or touch it before I strap it on.

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I like a pistol that fires without the magazine.

It's too bad he shot his hand, but at least he didn't kill or maim anyone else.

Not long ago, a friend forwarded a you tube video of a man in the middle east at a wedding (where pistols/rifles are shot in celebration) He fired some shots to celebrate at a wedding, placed the pistol on the table in front of him and left it unattended.

His 4 year old son picked it up and did what daddy did, only the pistol was aimed at daddy's left ribcage. He shot, and killed his father.

Be careful out there folks.
 
I've been shooting damn near 50 years now, 27 of those as a working cop. For 40 + years we were trained to place your finger inside the trigger guard and on the trigger as soon as the barrel of your revolver cleared the holster. The finger off the trigger until ready to shoot rule is an excellent one, but I still have to remind myself of that from time to time. Old habits do die hard.
 
Being an accident investigator I see stuff like this all the time, yes sometimes it's a lack of training, sometimes people are just stupid but more often than not its simple complacency. People are well trained have done things for years, have become comfortable performing a task and just take it for granted and start to disregard the potential for injury or death and cut corners. Then bam a series of events occurs and you have an incident.


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Well... That's a bummer for him!

Everyone talks about the trigger finger, but if you think about it, what's more important is where you have the gun pointed.
 
Steyrshrek said:
Being an accident investigator I see stuff like this all the time, yes sometimes it's a lack of training, sometimes people are just stupid but more often than not its simple complacency. People are well trained have done things for years, have become comfortable performing a task and just take it for granted and start to disregard the potential for injury or death and cut corners. Then bam a series of events occurs and you have an incident.
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Familiarity breeds contempt. This applies to guns, cars, almost everything we do.
 
old bear said:
I've been shooting damn near 50 years now, 27 of those as a working cop. For 40 + years we were trained to place your finger inside the trigger guard and on the trigger as soon as the barrel of your revolver cleared the holster. The finger off the trigger until ready to shoot rule is an excellent one, but I still have to remind myself of that from time to time. Old habits do die hard.
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Ain't that the truth. We were fortunate that the trigger pulls of the revolvers we carried were as heavy as they were. I remember pulling the hammer back on a guy I thought was pulling a gun out from his coat pocket. If I had been carrying one of the new autos the outcome would probably have been different. I believe I'll stick to revolvers and not mess around with the trigger pull.
 
Well at least he knows his carry ammo does its job so hes walking away with one good experience.... but ouch ouch ouch.
 
I met a guy with his left hand all bandaged up and of course asked about it. Seems he was trying to break down his Colt Mustang to clean but had one in the chamber and put it through his hand.
He didn't seem to be that much of a gun guy either but did admit he was an idiot with what happened.
I had one AD that scared the heck out of me but had the gun pointed in a safe direction. I learned a valuable lesson that day and keep my finger off the trigger until I'm ready to shoot now.
 
Good god, that's gruesome. I can't remember what season, or episode I saw this on... but on "Doomsday Preppers" there was an episode about this guy who was a Marine, then got into Special Forces and was prepping for a terrorist attack or something, I can't remember. But anyways... he was at the range showing off his gun skills and ended up blowing his thumb off with a .22LR Marlin because he wasn't holding the gun properly and had his thumb OVER THE BARREL EXIT!
 
A really good example of why the generally accepted rules for firearms use are generally accepted. If you mess up and forget one of the rules the result won't be bad (the way the cover each other explicitly prevents this). If you forget two of the rules, the results will be bad but not tragic (e.g. ND in a safe direction). If you forget anymore the results are likely tragic. They're so easy to remember, so easy to work with and keep in mind that it shocks me that people don't take more care to follow them carefully and keep them in mind handling any firearm, no matter how long we've been doing it. Also correcting anyone who you notice forgetting or ignoring the guidelines is useful and may keep you, them, or someone else alive!
 
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