Some carryover advice from a former knife sharpener

[roadkill45]

okay don't flame me, since i dropped a 1911 once a LONG time ago and it went off into the concrete floor.
but when i'm playing with my UNLOADED revolvers, i don't see how, it must be a freak catch, that the DAO revolver trigger can be pulled back that far to fire????
I have tried catching an unloaded revolver from anywhere from a 3 foot drop to the couch to a 5 foot and even though a time or two my finger was in the trigger guard, it did not have significant enough pressure to fire it in DA.
now my striker fired, never try to catch. even my P226 decocked would be a lot of pressure on the trigger to make it fire.

maybe i just can't wrap my mind around it, i know it happens. maybe after the catch, just in the right way, the trigger is impulsively squeezed and fired.

and i have dropped plenty of knives....no catch, no way!

 

[jimmyrabbit]

Roadkill45––thanks for the report on your research. But, anyway, just FYI, the gun was loaded with +P CorBon hollow points because I keep it loaded in the drawer. I was pulling it out of the drawer, preparing to put it into my pocket holster when the fumble took place. So, you've got the weight of the revolver plus the weight of the ammo. But, anyway, what you said comforts me to some degree. I suppose I could try the same kind of thing with the unloaded gun. Thanks.

 

[DonD]

Slightly off topic, years ago a destroyer pierside in Norfolk Naval Base had returned from offloading all it's ordnance prior to going to the shipyard. One 5"/54 projectile somehow wasn't sent to the ordnance station.

Would have been easy to do it the right way and transfer it to a neighboring ship with an Ammo Transaction Report. Some mentally challenged junior enlisted guy dropped it over the side in broad daylight. Sadly, a local news reporter saw it and nasty headlines resulted. Don

 

[jimmyrabbit]

Slightly off topic, years ago a destroyer pierside in Norfolk Naval Base had returned from offloading all it's ordnance prior to going to the shipyard. One 5"/54 projectile somehow wasn't sent to the ordnance station.

Would have been easy to do it the right way and transfer it to a neighboring ship with an Ammo Transaction Report. Some mentally challenged junior enlisted guy dropped it over the side in broad daylight. Sadly, a local news reporter saw it and nasty headlines resulted. Don

Don––Reminds me of the time I was driving taxi in San Francisco late in the evening and had two drunk fishermen in the back taking them to a pier. They were going on and on between themselves and one of them made a mention of how his boat had once dragged up a drum in its net out by the Farallons. The drum had radioactive warning markings on it, and the quick consensus then was to just drop the damned thing back and go on. The conversation would've gone further, but they realized that I had my ear cocked there in the front seat and they just shut up about it.

 

[Robinett_11B]

While working an ammo point on a grenade range one day, my partner dropped one while removing it from it's canister.

I was impressed with my old squad leader's reflexes......he didn't catch it, but he was nearly 100m away from the shack before that thing hit the floor.

 

[roadkill45]

that aint nothing, we buried an M1 Abrams in the Iraqi desert in an unknown location! had a huge back hoe hauler dig the hole and we buried it cause it was track damaged beyond repair and we were on the move so the crew and the digger stopped with a squad for security and it went underground.
BTW, we were under orders that no GPS or back then prior to Desert Storm, Loran's were to take location readings!

amazing.

that one on the hazmat marked container reminds me of one of the Night of the Living Dead movies where the 2 bozo's are robbing the graves and run into a barrel of Zombie Juice!!!

 

[Lobster Picnic]

When I was a waiter we had to stack everything on trays and then balance them in one hand through high foot traffic. There were lots of spills and crashes. I was pretty good at making the hand grabs and had also developed a knack of sticking my shoe out to prevent a fallen glass or bottle from breaking.

I came through the swinging door to the kitchen and ran into somebody. Regaining my balance tilted the tray precariously, and 5 or 6 bottles of ketchup went a-tumbling. The chef was a big Irish guy who had a bad temper about breakage. He saw the ketchups fall, I saw his face start to explode, so I danced a sweet little jig - left, right, right, left...and intercepted the fall of each bottle with my feet and ankles so that none of them broke on the tile floor! I never saw him laugh so hard! He tried to replicate my dance and nearly laughed himself silly. He was grateful that I tried so hard to save his precious ketchups, we got along good after that.

Thanks for the fallen knife story to remind me of good old times.

 

[Rahjerz]

A little off subject.

We were at a party across the street, my wife went home for something. She saw I left my 65 Panhead in the driveway and decided she would do me a favor and put it in the garage. When she didn't come back I went looking for her. She had straightened it up and put the kickstand up, the bike leaned over trapping her foot under the primary cover. As I got close to the house I heard her swearing and hollering, she never bothered my bikes again.

 

[roadkill45]

The cook must have thought you were "River Dancing"!!!!! That would have gone viral had it been a video nowadays!

I've leaned my Road King over several times, and you have to do the 3 lift method...up a little to the knee, then balance on thigh, then push up to standing. problem was my wife was supposed to be holding from the other side so it didn't go over on it's others side since we were on a slight right hand incline.........EPIC FAIL!