Marlin 60 remained loaded

[tmwinds]

You may direct your BOZO remark to me since I shot $1400 of windshield and sliding rear window out of my pickup a few months ago. Ruger 10-22 with a tight chambered Green Mountain barrel that plainly states on the barrel " This barrel may fail to extract a loaded round".

I was in my basement preparing to clean the rifle. I jacked the bolt several times to verify no round was in the chamber and then pulled the trigger. Killed my truck.

 

[mike a]

How about the old "jack the action" method of clearing a semi-auto. How many times have ya watched someone jack the bolt two or three times, and when nothing is ejected, start pointing and snapping.

LOOK AT THE CHAMBER HOLE BOZO!! Ejectors don't always work. I used to have a pretty nice High Standard Dura-matic that had an untrustworthy ejector. I was taught to ALWAYS look at the empty chamber hole to clear a gun. There is no substitute. jd

PS. My Bozo remark isn't directed at the OP

You may direct your BOZO remark to me since I shot $1400 of windshield and sliding rear window out of my pickup a few months ago. Ruger 10-22 with a tight chambered Green Mountain barrel that plainly states on the barrel " This barrel may fail to extract a loaded round".

I was in my basement preparing to clean the rifle. I jacked the bolt several times to verify no round was in the chamber and then pulled the trigger. Killed my truck.

The BOZO part was putting your truck in the basement.

 

[JMayo]

Three times check and show to a friend "clear" sometimes that friend has to be an imaginary one. Say it out loud just as a RO would.

I shot my pc screen while practicing dry fire pistol.
I didn't follow the no ammo in the vicinity rule of a safe table and it could have been bad. Habbits are made during safe times.

Orange tip follower in tube sticks out pretty far.
The OP oviously didn't think to look for it. Now we all are schooled a bit.

 

[pirate ammo]

My brother shot out his sliding glass door with a Winchester 30-30,,swore it was empty.

 

[TheOtherZilla]

Yeah, ALWAYS check the chamber. I too have a "accidental" discharge story. But my friends story is better. Short version. He bought a rifle from a guy he knows. Guy sold it to him at elk camp last year. It was passed around, many people opening the bolt . He gets home and decides to clean it. Finds a live round stuck in the chamber.

Moral of the story: Always check any fire arm you are handed including actually looking in the chamber.

 

[stacy]

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The same thing happened to the husband of a coworker of my wife he Started to take his pistol apart to clean it and shot himself through the thumb

DANG THAT HAD TO HAVE HURT

 

[mousegunner]

Had one guy almost shoot another sitting across from him while cleaning his pistol. I told the guy that almost got shot "Why aren't you stomping this guy into a grease spot?!"

About a week later the almost shot guy accidentally fired one round through his apartment wall across a busy road and impacted in a beauty salon feet away from a pregnant customer.