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Craziest gun stories you have heard.
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mattri
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This happened about 5 years ago.
Was at a public range in a western state, a nice range that we shot at quite a bit, enough to know most of the "regulars".
Was shooting at 200, don't remember what, but my wife was with me so maybe her 243? Anyway a cease fire is called, everyone starts walking out to check their targets. The wife and I are at the 200 line looking at a target when we hear a shot go off, she (always the smarter one) jumps behind me as I couch and look toward the line. I see a lady bear hugging a small child and a man booking it back to the benches. Near us is an off duty po, he is a really good guy that we've talked with at the range before and the DARE officer that my wife knew through school, he's looking at us, and looking around, and starts back toward the line. By the time he gets there the man woman and child are almost packed up and headed out. The wife and I are moving to the side into a little gully and then slowly make our way back to the line, by the time we get there the family has left and the po is waiting.
Turns out dad was shooting a pistol at about 25, mom was chilling with jr, and when everyone walked out a loaded handgun was left on the bench and jr wanted to be like dad and fired off a round.
No-one was hurt- but that was the only time anything like that has ever happened at any range I've ever been at.
Was at a public range in a western state, a nice range that we shot at quite a bit, enough to know most of the "regulars".
Was shooting at 200, don't remember what, but my wife was with me so maybe her 243? Anyway a cease fire is called, everyone starts walking out to check their targets. The wife and I are at the 200 line looking at a target when we hear a shot go off, she (always the smarter one) jumps behind me as I couch and look toward the line. I see a lady bear hugging a small child and a man booking it back to the benches. Near us is an off duty po, he is a really good guy that we've talked with at the range before and the DARE officer that my wife knew through school, he's looking at us, and looking around, and starts back toward the line. By the time he gets there the man woman and child are almost packed up and headed out. The wife and I are moving to the side into a little gully and then slowly make our way back to the line, by the time we get there the family has left and the po is waiting.
Turns out dad was shooting a pistol at about 25, mom was chilling with jr, and when everyone walked out a loaded handgun was left on the bench and jr wanted to be like dad and fired off a round.
No-one was hurt- but that was the only time anything like that has ever happened at any range I've ever been at.
Raise your hand if you know someone that has shot a hole in the floor pan of a car or truck. Both my hands are up... and no, neither was me.
Chappy
Silver $$ Contributor
Yep, had a buddy with a 7mm WBY mag blow a hole right through the roof of my chevy I had in high school. All hell broke loose when that happened.my human host said:Raise your hand if you know someone that has shot a hole in the floor pan of a car or truck. Both my hands are up... and no, neither was me.
Come to think of it, I know a fella that shot the glove box in his truck, which in turn set off a couple of the 12ga rounds he had stashed in there.
Buddy and I went to a gunshow, a big gunshow, at the Minneapolis Convention center. This is a huge convention center. As there were several other "shows" going on at the same time, there were thousands of people milling around, going to and fro, talking, etc.
As we were buying tickets, before we even walked into the gun show from the commons area, we hear a **BOOM**.
Everybody in the place suddenly froze, and the entire convention center instantly goes so quiet you could hear a pin drop. It seemed like an eternity, but after about 3 seconds everybody started moving again.
I turn around and look, and there is an uniformed policeman (show security) sitting behind a card table about 20 feet from me. A guy walks out of the gun show door with a new shotgun he apparently had just bought and the cop stands up and points his finger at him. The guy says "It wasn't me!".
Only then does the cop realize he was standing in a rising cloud of blue smoke from his feet. It was his own gun that had gone off into the floor.
My buddy and I went into the show, came out about 45 minutes later and the crime squad was there. Yellow tape everywhere, strings strung here and there. The whole CSI treatment.
The story was the cop's pistol "got caught" on the chair and it accidentally went off. I guess he also got hit by some bullet fragments (treated and released). AFAIK, this was quickly hushed up and no discipline was ever taken.
What gets my goat is that if it had been me or you who's gun "accidentally" went off at the friggin convention center, they would have buried us UNDER the jail. I also think the story is BS, as I don't know how a holstered pistol can catch on a chair, especially since I believe they all carry Glocks.
True story. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194219/posts
-nosualc
As we were buying tickets, before we even walked into the gun show from the commons area, we hear a **BOOM**.
Everybody in the place suddenly froze, and the entire convention center instantly goes so quiet you could hear a pin drop. It seemed like an eternity, but after about 3 seconds everybody started moving again.
I turn around and look, and there is an uniformed policeman (show security) sitting behind a card table about 20 feet from me. A guy walks out of the gun show door with a new shotgun he apparently had just bought and the cop stands up and points his finger at him. The guy says "It wasn't me!".
Only then does the cop realize he was standing in a rising cloud of blue smoke from his feet. It was his own gun that had gone off into the floor.
My buddy and I went into the show, came out about 45 minutes later and the crime squad was there. Yellow tape everywhere, strings strung here and there. The whole CSI treatment.
The story was the cop's pistol "got caught" on the chair and it accidentally went off. I guess he also got hit by some bullet fragments (treated and released). AFAIK, this was quickly hushed up and no discipline was ever taken.
What gets my goat is that if it had been me or you who's gun "accidentally" went off at the friggin convention center, they would have buried us UNDER the jail. I also think the story is BS, as I don't know how a holstered pistol can catch on a chair, especially since I believe they all carry Glocks.
True story. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194219/posts
-nosualc
At one of the local clubs we had a rifle match. Some guy shows up with a $5000 .300WM and tacticool everything. He's out wandering around with a wind meter "getting his wind dope."
It was a 100/200 varmint for score match.
He could barely get on paper and keep it on paper... "more used to shooting at 1000-1500," you see.
It was a 100/200 varmint for score match.
He could barely get on paper and keep it on paper... "more used to shooting at 1000-1500," you see.
I was shooting at a match 5 or 6 years ago and had the gun shooting pretty good. The match was to shoot till you missed and then the shooter next to you shot and so on. I was a long time till it was going to be my turn again, and I thought "it will be a cold bore shot". So there are lots of people shooting that aren't shooting the match making all kinds of noise so I can shoot a fouler and keep some heat in the gun and keep it alive till its my turn. I see a can or some thing down close to the targets and sight in on it and fire. Instantly I know its not a can, so much white smoke comes out they have to stop the match cause they cant see the targets. Then I remember that one of the members rebuilds fire extinguishers and throws out the bad ones at the range, the can was one of the fire extinguishers. The guy running the match is yelling "who did that?" I didn't say a word, until today. Larry don't rat me out to Mitch.
snert
Silver $$ Contributor
37 years ago I was at a public PA Gamelands range learning about the results of basic reloading. I was shooting for group with my Rem 700 VS 222. I was only 14 and had "taught myself" by reading and memorizing the Sierra manual.
Next to me was an experienced shooter, firing a lever action rifle. He was a "reloader" and told me his rifle was a special "wildcat". I was impressed. I fired my groups. I still have them and both are under 1/4 inch (yes I was lucky). Older gent was popping a pie plate at 50 yards and he took a few minutes to educate me on the finer points of varmint cartridges. His groups covered the pie plate. But it was the cases he was saving that scared the heck out of me. Apparently he was firing some form of a Zipper or Wasp in a wrong chamber, because the shoulder area was ballooned like a Weatherby, and every case had multiple splits in the shoulder area, soot and powder all over. When I "mentioned it", (I was only 14 after all) he told me that the cases "got put in a die to reform them to the wildcat shape" and they would reform fine and he was going to load them again. He said this was the fourth or fifth time he had loaded them.
Ignorance is bliss, and God does protect children and fools.
Next to me was an experienced shooter, firing a lever action rifle. He was a "reloader" and told me his rifle was a special "wildcat". I was impressed. I fired my groups. I still have them and both are under 1/4 inch (yes I was lucky). Older gent was popping a pie plate at 50 yards and he took a few minutes to educate me on the finer points of varmint cartridges. His groups covered the pie plate. But it was the cases he was saving that scared the heck out of me. Apparently he was firing some form of a Zipper or Wasp in a wrong chamber, because the shoulder area was ballooned like a Weatherby, and every case had multiple splits in the shoulder area, soot and powder all over. When I "mentioned it", (I was only 14 after all) he told me that the cases "got put in a die to reform them to the wildcat shape" and they would reform fine and he was going to load them again. He said this was the fourth or fifth time he had loaded them.
Ignorance is bliss, and God does protect children and fools.
jhord said:At one of the local clubs we had a rifle match. Some guy shows up with a $5000 .300WM and tacticool everything. He's out wandering around with a wind meter "getting his wind dope."
It was a 100/200 varmint for score match.
He could barely get on paper and keep it on paper... "more used to shooting at 1000-1500," you see.
Great Stories ALL! Out here in the SW, I get the one above a lot to the point I don't attend the city range, and my college range was a public range where I often took more ammo with me to check my target than I shot all day, so I feel ya on those stories too.
Now I shoot at a private range, and I love it, 65% of the members really know their stuff, and the remaining plus guests usually follow all safety rules. Worst I've seen are the open season hunters starting sight-in and they usually just need a little help.
My favorites are when I'm load testing. I shoot my AR at 600y, and load test at 200 when needed. We'll get lots of tacticool rifles out there with lots of ego behind them (at least its safe ego for what I've seen), but usually modesty resolves the issues, along with a target check.
I also have to give a huge shot out to those Fall season shooters who buy all the new fancy ammo and leave the brass out for me to pick up. Its a reloaders Easter that runs for months!
-Mac
I'll toss into the hat that after a 10y hiatus of shooting, I did pull a range mistake that luckily didn't shoot. See before reloading and new to self owned centerfire, the box store ammo is what we had, and somehow I grabbed the 222 off the shelf, not the 223. As luck would have it, I managed to figure that one out myself safely and ultimately found myself a new rifle to solve my ammo "surplus" situation too.
alintx
Alintx
Have freind whos wife bought him a weatherby mark Five, and a cheapo scope. He hunted with it several years,and always talked about the terrible accuracy he got from it. Six inch groups at hundred. His wife asked me what he needed for xmas, and i immediatly said a 6.5 x 20 leupold! He was thrilled that am, and mounted his new scope, and proceeded to sight it in. Still shot six inches. Brought the gun over for me to look at. Barrel CLEARLY marked 7mag. No weatherby on it. Needless to say, those 7mm shells he had been shooting for years came out looking alot different than when they went in ! Honest mistake,may have done it myself, but they sure need to clarify the barrel stamp ! After getting some 7mmWEATHERBY shells, he was amazed at the 1 1/2 group it shot !!!! He said he had shot four or five boxes of the rem mag thru it, so i guess that is a smoke test tho im not a fan of weatherby!
Not a chance Larryebb said:I was shooting at a match 5 or 6 years ago and had the gun shooting pretty good. The match was to shoot till you missed and then the shooter next to you shot and so on. I was a long time till it was going to be my turn again, and I thought "it will be a cold bore shot". So there are lots of people shooting that aren't shooting the match making all kinds of noise so I can shoot a fouler and keep some heat in the gun and keep it alive till its my turn. I see a can or some thing down close to the targets and sight in on it and fire. Instantly I know its not a can, so much white smoke comes out they have to stop the match cause they cant see the targets. Then I remember that one of the members rebuilds fire extinguishers and throws out the bad ones at the range, the can was one of the fire extinguishers. The guy running the match is yelling "who did that?" I didn't say a word, until today. Larry don't rat me out to Mitch.
My friend told me this story.
His boss was telling him about his hunting trip. They were driving and his boss went to adjust his rifle on the seat beside him. It went off blasting a hole in the fire wall. Without missing a beat he set the rifle down and ran the bolt. His friend noticed the oil light come on and turned off the ignition and was yelling something. With his ears screaming at him he finally understood what his friend was saying and ejected the live round. They got out to inspect the damage some how he only hit the oil filter.
So a trip into town they were running again. Well that and a ear plug to stop that hole from whistling.
His boss was telling him about his hunting trip. They were driving and his boss went to adjust his rifle on the seat beside him. It went off blasting a hole in the fire wall. Without missing a beat he set the rifle down and ran the bolt. His friend noticed the oil light come on and turned off the ignition and was yelling something. With his ears screaming at him he finally understood what his friend was saying and ejected the live round. They got out to inspect the damage some how he only hit the oil filter.
So a trip into town they were running again. Well that and a ear plug to stop that hole from whistling.
Erik Cortina
Team Lapua Brux Borden Captain
A friend of mine had a round go off inside his friends truck and hit one of the sensors in the exhaust. The truck died immediately. They are still friends, but it was rough for a while. ;D
Another one hit the torque convertor in the transmission.
Another one hit the torque convertor in the transmission.
Defty
When I was a Deputy at the Aero Bureau. One night the Early Morning Security Deputy thought he heard a Suspicious Noise. So he took the Remington 12 Ga out of the gun locker. Chambered a round and proceeded to check the hanger, FULL of helicopters (intermingled like aboard ship).
Not finding anything. He then prepaired to clean one of the birds. So he hung the Shot gun on the engine hoist, by the trigger guard.
One little problem. There was a round in the chamber. The safety was OFF.
The shot gun was an Auto Loader.
Results: As the gun was lowered the hoist hook came in contact with the trigger. BOOM not just once. BUT five time, double O buck.
DAMAGE several dents in the deck. Only ONE CHOPPER CANOPY
When I was a Deputy at the Aero Bureau. One night the Early Morning Security Deputy thought he heard a Suspicious Noise. So he took the Remington 12 Ga out of the gun locker. Chambered a round and proceeded to check the hanger, FULL of helicopters (intermingled like aboard ship).
Not finding anything. He then prepaired to clean one of the birds. So he hung the Shot gun on the engine hoist, by the trigger guard.
One little problem. There was a round in the chamber. The safety was OFF.
The shot gun was an Auto Loader.
Results: As the gun was lowered the hoist hook came in contact with the trigger. BOOM not just once. BUT five time, double O buck.
DAMAGE several dents in the deck. Only ONE CHOPPER CANOPY
There was a guy sighting in his 30-30 at 100 yards. He would shoot, adjust the scope, shoot again, adjust....not hole one in his target after firing 31 rounds.
I offered to bore sight it, get it on paper at 25 and 50 then move to 100 but he declined, he needed the last 9 rounds for deer season.
Oh, and while shooting and adjusting he was instructing his two buddies how to sight in a rifle! ;D
Bill
I offered to bore sight it, get it on paper at 25 and 50 then move to 100 but he declined, he needed the last 9 rounds for deer season.
Oh, and while shooting and adjusting he was instructing his two buddies how to sight in a rifle! ;D
Bill
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