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I was about 15 or 16 when I had mine. My Dad, younger brother, and I were all out dove hunting one weekend, I had been a hundred times, my brother hadn't gone with us much before. Anyway we had borrowed an 20 gauge shotgun for him to use.

Well to make a short story shorter, we had some birds come up on us, and took aim, but for whatever reason we didnt fire, well I just put my hammer back down, and got back to waiting. My brother didn't know what to do to get his back to the uncocked position. So, I traded him guns, and put down the hammer, only I let it get away from me, and put a nice crater in the ground about 3 feet in front of me.

The problem was I had never use that shotgun before, so I was unfamiliar with it, but as I was taught, I had the weapon pointed in a safe direction. Since, I have always made sure to familiarize myself as much as possible with a gun before I do anything with it.