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pistolchamp wrote:Glock match, San Antonio, Texas 1999, first stage, first competitor, me, at low ready position, before the timer went off, my Model 24 did... scared the bejeebers out of me...

"Low ready" doesn't include finger on trigger. I'm glad you learned that lesson in a safe environment.

JJ99SS wrote:I had an SKS loaded in the closet of my appt for "home defense". Well one night I took it out for the usual, "I just want to mess with it" time. Well I never chamber a round in any gun thats in the house (makes me nervous), but I always check them anyway.

Welcome, JJ!

One of our regular posters uses a signature that says he's scared of unloaded guns, implying that most accidents are with "unloaded"guns. I agree with him on that. Another signature claims the poster is afraid of two things: a bang that should have been a click, and a click that should have been a bang.

Either is very bad news.

You had a bang that should have been a click. Does it make you rethink gun safety?

I want to gently suggest that you gain some confidence about your firearms. I've known people who worry about loaded firearms, so they constantly check them: and by checking, they are at greater risk of unintended discharges.

I never wonder if my firearms are loaded, because I make sure they are! In my house, there are four loaded handguns, and one loaded shotgun. I don't worry about them being loaded, because I know that they are, and I'd assume they are even if I didn't know.

I'm not critisizing your UD, just pointing out that your nervousness about your rifle's loaded condition was a direction factor in launching an unintended projectile.

Kevin

Well, I committed the unpardonable sin today. It's my wife's birthday, so I was wrestling our 3 year old into his clothes so we could take her to lunch. We get to her store and start walking across the parking lot, when I think I must have lost a little weight, because my pants are sagging.

Well, they were only sagging on the magazine side, because that's where all the weight was. Yup: empty holster at 3:00!



So I felt a mite nekkid today, with my pistol safely at home. I guess I could have thrown bullets at a bad guy.

Kevin

j1132s wrote:Well, I never have had one. But w/ my current luck (just had my first range accident), who knows!

Also, I think I prefer the old term AD. I think it is around 1999-2000??? that people started to switch to ND ?? It's like a car accident, there may be blame, but its an accident.

-Ching

There are accidental discharges, but they're so rare as to be insignificant. The majority of unintentional discharges that I've seen reported were negligent in nature.

So you might want to use UD as a catch-all.