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mullet:
 Don't forget DUMBASS AWARENESS. :o

youngbowyer33:

--- Quote from: mullet on July 21, 2010, 09:45:10 pm --- Don't forget DUMBASS AWARENESS. :o

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LMFAO

El Destructo:
I blew the Tip off my own Sorrel Boot when I was 8 years old with a Single Shot Mossberg 20 gauge Bolt Action Shotgun....My Dad took me Partridge Hunting back in Upper Michigan...and in Michigan...and back then if you are traveling with a Gun...the Magazine had to be out...slide locked open...the Lever Action Had to be Open...or the Bolt had to be removed...Double Barrels had to be broke open...or in two....well We were going down a dirt backroad...and there were two Pats sitting on the side of the road picking Gravel....so my Dad pulled over to the side of the road.....We snuck out the Doors....He told me....Son...put a bullet in the chamber...and get ready to shoot... So I did...then He told Me to close the Bolt....well you may see where this is going now.... ::)....He had never told Me to put the Bolt in the Gun first....So here I am ...a Bullet in the Chamber...He tells me to close the Bolt...OK...well I tell Him...Dad the Bolts not in yet....He says...well put it in....So I did...well in order to get the Bolt in a Mossberg Bolt Action Shotgun...You stick it in the Grooves...and then pull the Trigger to get the Bolt to go all the way in the Receiver...well when I dropped the Bolt in the Gun....pulled the Trigger to get it to fall down...well it fell down....and went Bang....and all I could see was Grey Felt hanging out of my Boot...and my Toes were hot....well needless to a say that was the end of my Partridge Hunt...and my Dad sold the Mossberg to a Gun Dealer...and got me a Stevens Single 410.... ;)

Tsalagi:
Firearms must be handled with the same respect as you would handling a live rattlesnake. No, better make that a live cobra. One careless incident can lead to a lifetime of regret. Recurve Shooter, I strongly suggest you guys enroll in a hunter safety course and a firearms handling class. If you've done this already, do it again for a refresher. I'm not trying to be condescending or insulting, but a guy was shot and could have been killed. It isn't funny. You guys need to sharpen your pencils and learn how to handle firearms properly.

Buying the weapon is the easy part. Knowing how to use it properly, safely, and wisely is the hard part. If Blake was in the navy, shame on whoever trained him on weapons. Or shame on Blake if he was asleep with his eyes open in the class. When I went through U.S. Army basic training, they had guards stationed with loaded weapons behind trainees on the firing line during BRM. One wrong move with your muzzle (like sweeping those guards, other trainees and cadre with a loaded weapon) and you might find yourself shot. This impressed upon young minds the importance of firearms safety most effectively. Nothing like self-preservation and the threat of 9 grams of permanent correction to instill firearms discipline upon trainees.

More people are shot accidently by "unloaded" weapons or by people who "know what they're doing". One other observation and I'm done here. If Blake was easing the hammer down on a live round and it went off, guess what that means? Unless it had a half-cock (which many milsurp autos don't), Blake weas easing that hammer down on to a live round. Meaning the firing pin is resting on the primer. Meaning it can go off if dropped.

JW_Halverson:
Tsalagi makes a very valid point.  It had been years since I had taken a firearms safety course.  Heck, I'd never shot anyone, I was always safe, right?

I took the safety course again last year along with the 13 yr old kid I mentored on his first deer hunt.  Guess what?  I learned a lot.  Then I learned some more when the KID braced me on some unsafe behavior.  How safe is safe enough when it comes to deadly weapons?  Bad enough that some of you have had to shoot at bad guys (and I honor and respect you for doing it, thank you), I can't imagine the horror of shooting a friend. 

Same goes for our bowshooting, right?

Recurve shooter, thanks for posting the incident.  I really appreciate the reminder.  Hope your friend makes a full recovery.

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