Finger off the trigger...
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:42 am
She should know better than to get in a hurry to tell me these things 
So, I got a call about an hour ago from my wife. It seems she woke up this morning to find a coyote in the yard,
and decided to do something about it. 
She grabbed the Super Comanche .45LC/.410 loaded with .410 birdshot, (I don't know why she picked that, with three shotguns and two rifles in easy reach - it almost certainly wouldn't have been a quick kill, and anything but clean) cocked it, and promptly shot a hole in the exterior wall. 
After making sure that her hand was just bruised, I had her describe the hole. It sounded a bit too small, but I never leave .45LC in that gun. I have, on rare occasion, been wrong in the past, so just in case, I told her to check the gun and see what the empty hull was...live #4 birdshot load. Hmmm...what about the other single action sitting right there; my .357 Blackhawk loaded with my nice hot 158gr XTP over a Rugers-and-carbines-only load of 2400. Empty hull under the hammer. Yep, that was her intro to magnum handguns...indoors...a couple minutes after waking up.
Guess I'll be patching the wall when I get home. Maybe now she'll listen when I tell her that one "dry run" doesn't constitute learning to use a different type of gun. Times like this, I'm really glad the neighbors on that side are over 300yds away.
I'd have patched the wall and kept my mouth shut
So, I got a call about an hour ago from my wife. It seems she woke up this morning to find a coyote in the yard,
and decided to do something about it. She grabbed the Super Comanche .45LC/.410 loaded with .410 birdshot, (I don't know why she picked that, with three shotguns and two rifles in easy reach - it almost certainly wouldn't have been a quick kill, and anything but clean) cocked it, and promptly shot a hole in the exterior wall. After making sure that her hand was just bruised, I had her describe the hole. It sounded a bit too small, but I never leave .45LC in that gun. I have, on rare occasion, been wrong in the past, so just in case, I told her to check the gun and see what the empty hull was...live #4 birdshot load. Hmmm...what about the other single action sitting right there; my .357 Blackhawk loaded with my nice hot 158gr XTP over a Rugers-and-carbines-only load of 2400. Empty hull under the hammer. Yep, that was her intro to magnum handguns...indoors...a couple minutes after waking up.
Guess I'll be patching the wall when I get home. Maybe now she'll listen when I tell her that one "dry run" doesn't constitute learning to use a different type of gun. Times like this, I'm really glad the neighbors on that side are over 300yds away.
I'd have patched the wall and kept my mouth shut
