Along with all the inevitable "I shot a hole in the floor" stories, this one was pretty funny:
Ordered up a Sig P229. Just picked it up hours earlier on my way out to camp. Got to camp, pulled it out of box, inspected it, loaded it, popped off a few rounds to make sure it would go bang, and threw the thing into the new paddle holster on the belt while I went about setting up camp.
Got a fire going as I was setting up camp. Snowing and cold.
Walked around the back side of the fire to grab a couple pieces of wood, and tripped right over the "cornerstone" rock of the fire pit, a big old rock hiding in the shadow of the fire ring, whcih we never could remove. Planted my azz right dead center in the middle of that fire. I wormed out and climbed out of that fire with all number of hot embers sticking to my azz, my coat, my pants. Brushed the hot embers off myself, and plopped my butt down in a camp chair. As I'm sitting there looking at the fire and thinking to myself "well, ya dumb azz, did that really just happen?", I'm looking at the fire, and my eyes are drawn to this object in the coals, with me wondering what it was. It dawned on me the moment I also reached to my side. That brand new, hours old Sig was in the coals.
You bet your azz I reached right into the middle of those hot coals and extracted that Sig and threw it in the snow (along with my now tender hand). I now had a not so new melted plastic and burnt leather coated Sig. Took hours of careful detailing to get that thing clean. Once new grips, followers, and mag plates where ordered, you'd never know the incident happened though. Some 15 years later and many thousands of rounds, and it still runs like new. But that night sucked ballz. Hadn't had the gun outta the box for more than an hour.
Another good one:
Guns and dynamite involving a couple coworkers, 1 with experience, and 1 without. The first was a high school graduate, the second a PhD. A local fence builder had blown some near solid rock post holes and abandoned 4 or 5 weepy sticks on the project. When discovered a couple weeks later, the experienced crew member mentioned they could light it off with his 30-30. PhD said "bull sh-t."
They packed it out to a more remote area, tucked it into the crotch of a hollow juniper tree, backed off about 100 yds, and had at it. Seems they may have been missing, but PhD insisted the idea was bogus. With nothing happening they moved to about 50 yds and tucked in behind a couple bushel basket sized boulders.
The next round made contact and their first inkling of success was the sensation that their faces were being pushed from the front and were wrapping around their skulls toward the backs of their heads. In a millisecond both were flat out backwards. They both sat up in awe grinning at one another and then noted that the juniper was gone. As they were standing up to go investigate, a hail of wood, limbs, foliage and rocks came out of the sky. PhD now agrees that a rifle will ignite dynamite after all.
I've had weapons all my life, hunting, target shooting, and I must be some kind of weirdo because I've got nothing here.
ReplyDeleteI really hate paddle holsters for the reason stated in the first story. They don't remain where you put them.
ReplyDeleteOk, here's my story. Back in the late 70's, I was not long out of the Army and visiting my old varmint hunting grounds out in the sage and juniper of northern California. I had acquired a .36 caliber 1851 navy percussion revolver. I was wearing it in a western style leather rig. Yeah, you can probably see this coming. I decided to take on a juniper tree at 20 paces at high noon.
ReplyDeleteFast draw! Well, sorta. When I was in high school in the same area, two lads had clipped themselves doing the same thing with Ruger single six 22's. So, my draw was slow and very by. The. Numbers. Clear the holster, cock on the way up, fire. First and only shot was a hit dead center. An instant later, the lead ball came whizzing back by my head. Who knew? Juniper trees shoot back! Thus endeth my lesson.
For those who like dynamite stories---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzabmVIU6EQ
There was a public boat ramp at a small river in south Georgia that the locals also used as range. People would set up in the parking area at the top of the boat ramp and shoot pistol down to target at the waterline or they would shoot rifle down to the sandbar across the sleu. Either way people were not firing into the river but the washout on a turn in the river.
ReplyDeleteMe and a buddy had just finished fishing and we could hear the gunfire as we were approaching the ramp. We got there just as they were setting up some tannerite targets. We loaded our boat and were about to leave when one of the good ole boys told us to watch the fireworks. They were shooting pieces that were the size of hockey pucks.
They were about like hand grenades as far as the explosions. That got those boys thinking bigger is better. They had a gallon metal paint can that they trotted over to the other side of the sleu. I told my buddy we needed to back up a ways and we drove down the road to where we were about 180 yards away. The boys shooting were about 40 yards from the target.
When they shot that gallon bucket the concussion knocked all of them on their tails. Shrapnel missed them but took out all of the glass of their truck and peppered it like it had been shot with birdshot. They were not seriously hurt but developed a new respect for tannerite.
I'm a 1911 guy, been handling them for over 40 years.
ReplyDeleteWhen clearing one, my drill is: drop the mag, muzzle in safe direction, hammer down, pull trigger, rack the slide to check the chamber. It has become second nature.
My brother showed me his brand new XD. He's no dummy- he cleared it before handing it to me.
And as usual, I checked it too...
Dang these newfangled striker-fired pistols!
There was a Click! which sounded really loud to me.
No harm, no foul, but boy was my face red.
=TW=
and that is how i put my XD45 to rest. mag out, check chamber, point into the sand bucket and pull the trigger. second nature. unloads the striker spring and makes it absolutely clear the weapon is clear. never trust any striker fired weapon if the striker is showing cocked
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