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re: If a 12ga goes off in a crowded gun store....
Posted on 12/31/20 at 2:45 pm to No Colors
Posted on 12/31/20 at 2:45 pm to No Colors
True story. Hunting in Meeker, CO for the past 12 years. We stay on a ranch in trailer and there are 4 of us in 1 long room. 5 years ago we were finished hunting and packing up. Friend of mine I have hunted with for years stuck his .300 Win Mag into a Pelican case and it went off. Thank god it was pointed down at the floor when it went off. Blew the end of the case off and right through the floor. EXTREMELY Loud... deafening in that small room. Entire place was filled with a blueish acrid smoke and 4 stunned hunters.
Scary and loud. Never want to be around anything like that again.
Scary and loud. Never want to be around anything like that again.
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Posted on 12/31/20 at 2:56 pm to No Colors
Vans, Best smoked sausage in the game
Posted on 12/31/20 at 2:56 pm to Tridentds
Was deer hunting at a nice place in South TX, corporate trip. One of the customers was putting up his stuff in the gun room. Points rifle towards ceiling, pulls trigger “to make sure it’s unloaded”. I think you know what happened next. I nearly had heart attack.
Posted on 12/31/20 at 2:56 pm to No Colors
Damn I missed it. Must have happened right after. Place was packed today.
Posted on 12/31/20 at 3:09 pm to rlp
Well... you can laugh later. At that moment, nope.
Posted on 12/31/20 at 3:20 pm to No Colors
Glad it wasn’t an AR. They’d have to condemn the building.
Posted on 12/31/20 at 3:29 pm to turkish
I've drilled into my kids most people killed accidentally with a firearm were killed by one that wasn't laoaded.
I've all had them watch me drop out a magazine and ask if it's unloaded. They now all say it's not if one is still in the chamber. Even my six year old asks me when we are coming in from the lease.
I've all had them watch me drop out a magazine and ask if it's unloaded. They now all say it's not if one is still in the chamber. Even my six year old asks me when we are coming in from the lease.
This post was edited on 12/31/20 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 12/31/20 at 3:30 pm to cdaniel76
What range do you work?
Posted on 12/31/20 at 3:59 pm to No Colors
Holy shite. There’s 30 people at that gun counter at all times. Glad no one was hit
Posted on 12/31/20 at 4:23 pm to jimbeam
This post was edited on 12/31/20 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 12/31/20 at 4:46 pm to cdaniel76
Does an AD on your range get you a ban?
Posted on 12/31/20 at 4:49 pm to No Colors
Was at Simmons in Bastrop about 15 years ago buying new arrows. Came time to draw my bow back to get a measurement on the arrow and I had forgot my release. Guy gives me one that was laying on the counter and at half draw the release pops off the string, hits me in the chin drawing blood, arrow with no tip flies about 50’ thru the store and sticks into a Columbia jacket. Scared the hell out of both of us.
Posted on 12/31/20 at 4:51 pm to No Colors
So was it a gun that someone brought in to see about selling or trading, or did it come off the used rack?
If the latter, then frick. Probably won’t be allowed to go behind the counter and peruse the used guns anymore.
Eta: On second thought though, maybe not. Van and company don’t seem like the kind of guys that would say oh well one idiot ruins it for the rest of y’all.
If the latter, then frick. Probably won’t be allowed to go behind the counter and peruse the used guns anymore.
Eta: On second thought though, maybe not. Van and company don’t seem like the kind of guys that would say oh well one idiot ruins it for the rest of y’all.
This post was edited on 12/31/20 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 12/31/20 at 4:59 pm to No Colors
quote:I check everything I'm handling, but if that's the actual case- how do you leave a loaded gun in the used rack? Did they even look it over beforehand, or did they just hang a price tag on it and put it up for sale?
But the story I heard was that it was a used gun. The clerk took it off the rack and handed it to the customer without checking it. Customer didn't check it. Put it on his shoulder. Dry fired it. Bang.
Posted on 12/31/20 at 5:21 pm to Scoob
Somebody is getting fired ...other than the shotgun that is
This post was edited on 12/31/20 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 12/31/20 at 6:06 pm to No Colors
Nothing louder than a click when it should boom and a boom when it should click.
Posted on 12/31/20 at 6:18 pm to Scoob
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I check everything I'm handling,
As everyone should. A couple of years back at SHOT show, on the third day, a guy shows me a new LaRue rifle off the rack. I pull the charging handle back and look in the chamber first thing. He chuckles and says “you are probably the 500th guy I have showed this to and you are no shite the third one to check the chamber.” I was stunned.
Posted on 12/31/20 at 6:28 pm to No Colors
I always assume every gun is loaded and ready to rumble.
I know when I say mine is empty it’s empty. My OCD causes me to check it every 1-2 minutes just because of shite like this
I know when I say mine is empty it’s empty. My OCD causes me to check it every 1-2 minutes just because of shite like this
Posted on 12/31/20 at 6:34 pm to bulldog95
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I always assume every gun is loaded and ready to rumble.
I know when I say mine is empty it’s empty. My OCD causes me to check it every 1-2 minutes just because of shite like this
Yep. And on top of that, most every duck hunter I've ever known has had checking the safety so drilled into them that they can’t even remember putting it on when picking up a gun or after shooting. It’s just a subconscious reflex.
Posted on 12/31/20 at 7:38 pm to No Colors
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The clerk took it off the rack and handed it to the customer without checking it. Customer didn't check it. Put it on his shoulder. Dry fired it. Bang.
Unfortunately, not everyone gets the same level of training or internalizes it.
That clerk's definitely got some explaining to do if he handed that shotgun to the customer.
This post was edited on 12/31/20 at 7:50 pm
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