My dog Charlie accidently shot me

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Charlie accidental shot himself IMHO. Negligent discharge. Gun with round in chamber in truck/car. Most likely no safety engaged. Then toss in a dog. What could possibly go wrong with that? Unless I was a cop or had to go into a gang riddled neighborhood to rescue a family member NO long guns with round in chamber are going in one of my rigs, I don't care if it has a safety on. Loaded handguns in a holster or secured and covered location. Even a S&W revolver doesn't belong laying on a seat or anywhere the trigger could be engaged by falling or sliding and hanging up on something or mistakenly grabbed or shoved around by man or beast.
 
A sort of similar incident happen about 10 or so years ago involving a loaded shotgun left in a safe that was pulled out by the muzzle and blew the guy's head off. The negligent guy happened to be a SWAT officer.

I don't know what it is with people leaving loaded firearms around only to get shot by them in a preventable way.
 
I actually saw something similar happen around 1985 or so. We were in a duck lease below Jeanerette, LA and there were 2 other guys in the lease and to get to their ponds they had to go through our pond in the marsh. This particular morning, the guy in the left back pond was hunting and the one in the right back pond wasn't. The guy in the left back pond hunted his pond until around 9:00 AM; hunting was slow that day. So he decided to go to the other pond and do a little hunting there, plus put some more brush around the other guy's blind and he had his boat loaded with branches and his dog. So he comes up through the canal to our pond to cross over to the other pond and stops to shoot the breeze for a few minutes before going on to the other pond. While we were talking, his dog started moving around in his boat in the branches and stuff he had stacked in the boat and all of a sudden we hear a big BANG! So he is standing there in his boat looking kind of stunned and with a strange look on his face. My brother and I ask him if he is all right and after about 30 seconds he replied "I've been shot!". So we get in our boat and go over to him and sure enough, he was shot in the foot. Luckily for him, before the shot got to him it went through an aluminum rib in his boat, which absorbed most of the shot and took a lot of the impact force away from the rest that made it through into his ankle and foot. We ended up bringing him to the emergency room at the hospital in New Iberia, where the x-ray only showed about 24 pellets in his ankle and foot. He was damned lucky. We hung around until the guy's wife got to the hospital and gave her his dog, then went back to pack our stuff up and go home.

The guy had laid his shotgun down in the boat loaded with it on safe because he was "only going from 1 pond to the other".:rolleyes: Evidently when his dog started moving around in the boat, some of the brush and cover he had in the boat knocked the safety off and triggered the shot.:eek:
 
A few years ago I was shooting with our friend Angela. We were at my favorite spot, at the end of a logging road about 20 miles from here. She left her keys in her vehicle, a Saturn SUV, (which is what we drove out there in), along with her dogs. They didn't manage to shoot anyone, but they did lock us out! They were jumping around on the front seat looking out the window, and they jumped on the door lock. Thankfully, she had left the window about 6" down, so I got down on all fours while she stood on my back and reached through the window and unlocked it. Those dogs just couldn't figure out how to let us back in!
 
^ When we buy a new car, we always have an additional key made; the primer driver carries the spare in a wallet or something that is always on their person. It's just like what we did when I was a cop - always have a "cheater" key. I have had to leave a car locked and running for the safety of the dog(s) when traveling, and it's just part of normal protocol.

As for the doofus who got shot - that's his own fault and he should pay someone to administer slap therapy on a regular basis, although I am sure he will never forget that lesson.
 
Man , I tell you , I couldn't look an officer in the face and say ( My dog shot me officer.) Add to the fact , everybody I knew would be laughing at me for years , not to mention you guys . But wait , tell me he's not one of us , please.......
 
RobertJ. said:
A few years ago I was shooting with our friend Angela. We were at my favorite spot, at the end of a logging road about 20 miles from here. She left her keys in her vehicle, a Saturn SUV, (which is what we drove out there in), along with her dogs. They didn't manage to shoot anyone, but they did lock us out! They were jumping around on the front seat looking out the window, and they jumped on the door lock. Thankfully, she had left the window about 6" down, so I got down on all fours while she stood on my back and reached through the window and unlocked it. Those dogs just couldn't figure out how to let us back in!
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How short are you that you couldn't reach inside and unlock the door or is the lock low down on the door panel?
 
Doug M. said:
^ When we buy a new car, we always have an additional key made; the primer driver carries the spare in a wallet or something that is always on their person. It's just like what we did when I was a cop - always have a "cheater" key. I have had to leave a car locked and running for the safety of the dog(s) when traveling, and it's just part of normal protocol.

As for the doofus who got shot - that's his own fault and he should pay someone to administer slap therapy on a regular basis, although I am sure he will never forget that lesson.
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Most cases like these just having the chamber empty is good enuff. Unless actively preparing to pull the trigger, anyway.

There are several places outside the car that I hide a key.
At most a screwdriver or dime will get access to it. Other spots just need a little reaching. (duct tape is our FRIEND! )
Same thing goes for the motorcycle, there are places that do NOT show up on people's radar.
 
bearman49709 said:
How short are you that you couldn't reach inside and unlock the door or is the lock low down on the door panel?
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Well, like I said, it was an SUV (I forget the model), and the top of the window (there was about a 6 inch opening) was about nose-level to either of us. So no, no reaching in while standing on the ground. If it'd been my Corolla- no problem!
 
I have to confess. I was conducting range training one time, and we took a break, so I laid my 870, with a round in the chamber, on the front seat of my cruiser. Later went to cruiser and when I pulled the shotgun off the seat I had my finger on the trigger. BOOM. Put a nice bubble in the front door. Really felt like a dummy with me being a firearms instructor.:o
 
I stopped to get gas today and a lady was talking to her Schnauzer through a small slit at the top of her window. I asked her if she was locked out and she said she was and couldn't understand why. She never locks the doors when he's in it. I looked at the other doors and they were all unlocked. He must have stood on the button and only locked one door. I told her that her car was gonna get stolen along with her dog. He didn't have a mean bone in his body.
 
Tex had probably transported his gun and dogs this exact same way countless times...never giving it a second thought. We are all creatures of habit. But it only takes one time for Murphy’s Law to catch up with someone.

This incident is ripe for humour, but I’m just glad Tex will recover and Charlie is okay, too. It could have been tragic.
 
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