[billy]

Quote:       Originally Posted by toolman

That's cause they did it wrong. You stick a .22 shell in a plastic straw and throw it as high as you can on a solid surface. Before it hits, run like he-ll. This in no way safe or recommended by the management.

the correct way to do it is put a bunch on the sidewalk, make sure moms not lookin and beat em with a hammer

[Habakkuk21]

I wasn't there in the flesh to see it, but the video that hit the internet about a year ago showing a LEO of some type lecturing schoolkids about firearm safety. He immediately shoots himself.
It wasn't really dumb, just...authentic. Yeah, that's it, my daughter had an authentic experience when she was firing in the 22 league a couple of years ago. Not only did she shoot the target off the retainer clips, she shot the entire rack off the wires: clips, targets, clamps, the whole thing. How she did it with one single 22 LR, I do not know.
Dumbest thing my dad ever did was provide me with a BB gun, unsupervised, keep it in your room, when I was five years old. I wonder if he gave me any instruction? If so, it didn't work, because I shot my mom with it soon after, right in the sternum. I wasn't mad at her or anything. I was just playing with the toy he'd given me. I can still see it: 1958, in the basement of our new house on Inglewood Drive, mom talking to dad. They are both standing in the area of the basement that we kids weren't permitted to go. I think I stalked her a little, and then fired! Whoopee! It worked!
I don't remember what happened next...or for the next several days.

[bigandrich44]

Wow, hab, I was given a .243 at 9 years old, but thats after I was properly trained and instructed.

We ha d a guy a few years back dove hunt with us. They were walking back the truck, (I was on an ATV) and my dad said dove at 6 o clock. well, one guy sets his coke down not 3 feet from his foot. They shoot, then a second later *BOOM* and a coke can spurts coke and aluminum through the air. He had shot the can with an Improved cylinder 12 ga. 3 pellets had embedded themselves in the guys boot, thankfully it was steel toe. But that guy no longer hunts with us. =)

[CrazyIvan]

I haven't been shooting for long, but at the pistol range 2 blocks from my house, I have whitnessed it and it is noted on websites about shooting ranges regarding this particular individual/location...

The range officer/dude was sleeping before, during and after the people were shooting.

[Johnny_Revolver]

Quote 1. because I shot my mom with it soon after, right in the sternum. I wasn't mad at her or anything.

Quote 2. I think I stalked her a little, and then fired!

I`m glad that the outcome was too serious ( from Mom`s point of view anyway) But that was just so funny to read, seriously..

[Gio]

I bet alot of you guys have witnessed this.

The scope was mounted with elevation to the left and windage on top. For a right handed shooter it gets confusing. Turn the knob the wrong way and you waste some ammo.

I edited it for ya lefty

[lefty o]

thats how you mount them on a left handed rifle!

[jerry]

Basic training 1984. The guy next to me shoots the guy's target to the left of him and puts 0 in his.

.38 Qualification that was sopposed to be 9mm but the govt was short on ammo. S&W rear sight kept falling apart. Raise hand, CATM troop puts sight back on. Repeat every 4th or so shot. Missed expert by one round. Pretty peeved Buck Sgt behind gun.

After a guys night out of drinking and palying vidoe golf. Idiot comes out of bedroom with .357 points gun at cieling and pulls trigger(of course thought it was unloaded). Everyone in room deaf. Lucky it was 3rd floor of apartment. Funny thing, Tucson cops never showed up.

Mother in law fires my P-90 200 grain SWC .45 ACP at steel drum. Projectile bounces back and hits me in the boob.

My friend inherits his grandpa's .308 dies. Loads up a few hundred rounds. Didn't feel it needed to chamber one or three when he first started loading them (as suggested by his friend, me). Dies were actually worn. Rounds didn't chamber. RCBS sells yet another bullet puller.

Dateline dah, dah, dit, dit, dah, da.......,,.,.,,.';'; Me, this past weekend. Pull up on textbook head shot on sitting rabbit. Gun goes click. Shot at it 3 times and was empty. Brother laughs & shoots rabbit with his loaded Benelli a few minutes later

[Big Dog]

I did that once - the right knob blocked the bolt handle. Heck, it works!

Had a shooting buddy once who placed an unused CO2 cartridge at 25 yards, then shot it with a .22LR. It ruptured, and flew back to hit him in the chest!
BWAHAHAHA! A target that shot back - I laughed my derrierre off.

[troy2000]

Quote:       Originally Posted by billy

the correct way to do it is put a bunch on the sidewalk, make sure moms not lookin and beat em with a hammer

He's a likeable kid, but he likes to set off shotgun shells with a hammer. He's bloodied his face once already, and just thought it was funny. His parents paid the doctor bill and weren't really amused.

[.22guy]

Sounds like he's not long for this world Troy......

[troy2000]

Quote:       Originally Posted by .22guy

Sounds like he's not long for this world Troy......

The little idiot will probably outlive us both.

Aside from that little quirk, and a tendency to risk life and limb trying impossible jumps on a bicycle, he seems reasonable and intelligent. Go figure...

[Mooseman684]

I learned my lesson about Muzzle blast from my Armalite Ar-50. I had my new spotting scope set up on the bench next to me... when I touched off the .50 the blast blew my scope 20 feet into the parking lot in pieces ! Design of the muzzle brake makes high pressure gasses come out at a 45 degree angle to the rear....YIKES !
Rich

[Jay68442]

The dumbest thing I ever did was lend a friend of mine my AK. Young guy who didn't have much in the way of firearms training. Anyway when he returned the gun to me I figured I would clean it and put it away. As I was just about to pull the trigger to release the hammer, something inside told me to check the chamber. Sure enough there was a live round in the chamber. Needless to say I never lent my guns out again. It made me realize that guns are not toys that you lend to friends.

[zzizzer421xx]

Umm i wasnt actuually there to expeince this but i found a video online and a black man who was a cop! and he was explaining to children about gun s aftey and next thing u know he says well one safe thing is to make sure the gun is not loaded and as soon as he says that the gun went off and shot him self in the hand kinda messed up but was very stupid on his part

[troy2000]

Quote:       Originally Posted by zzizzer421xx

Umm i wasnt actuually there to expeince this but i found a video online and a black man who was a cop! and he was explaining to children about gun s aftey and next thing u know he says well one safe thing is to make sure the gun is not loaded and as soon as he says that the gun went off and shot him self in the hand kinda messed up but was very stupid on his part

The guy tried to shrug it off, tough it out and finish his speech.

Later he sued everyone in sight, claiming his reputation, career and personal life had been destroyed by the videotape.

He seemed to have no concept of personal responsibility: it wasn't his fault for pulling a boneheaded stunt; it was everyone else's fault for letting the world see his boneheadedness.

[Otter]

I went to kick a guy off the farm, It was shotgun season and I found this dumb !!! sucking on a cigarette, wearing Old Spice, sitting on a log, waiting for some deer with no sence of smell to come by. Earlier he had dropped the shotgun and had a pretty good plug of dirt in the muzzle. I told him he was trespassing and he had to leave the way he came. He stood up and swung the muzzle in my direction, not on purpose, just an idiot. I noticed the muzzle was plugged. I thought I'd let him find the plug of dirt the hard way, but thought better of it and told him to clean it out before he blew up his shotgun. He turned the shotgun toward himself and started to ream out the dirt with a pocket knife, while the shotgun was still loaded. The next day I read in the newspaper that some fool got hurt when his shotgun blew up. I couldn't help wondering if it was the same fool.

[Big Dog]

For sheer pig-headed stupidity, nothing beats the idiot we had at the local range with a S&W snubby. He'd just bought a box of .38 Specials (he thought) and was having trouble getting them into the chambers.
I offered to give it a look, and he hands me the gun and ammo. Well! "Here's your problem" I says. "This is .38 Auto, not .38 Special! You can't use it, it's unsafe if you did get it in!" He said he'd take the ammo back and exchange it.
A few minutes later, as I'm loading my stuff into the car, I see him sitting at the bench, trying to POUND those pesky .38 Autos into the chambers!
My buddy and I left, shaking our heads. Some folks are stuck on stupid.

[Gio]

if he went back it wouldn't have been too bad. But he kept trying. What an idiot.

[troy2000]

Quote:       Originally Posted by troy2000

The guy tried to shrug it off, tough it out and finish his speech. Later he sued everyone in sight, claiming his reputation, career and personal life had been destroyed by the videotape. He seemed to have no concept of personal responsibility: it wasn't his fault for pulling a boneheaded stunt; it was everyone else's fault for letting the world see his boneheadedness.

It isn't as simple as I thought. Someone pointed out that since he was an undercover agent, wide distribution of the tape probably did mess with his career. Of course, the carelessness din't help much, either.

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