Safety First! <IMG SRC="/luger/graphics/indifferent.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=":|"> kinda long!

G.T. · 04-10-2001, 10:29 PM

I really don't feel much like a soapbox kinda guy...but an earlier post made me think about some tough learned lessons.....In thinking back, some of the most unusual firearms accidents that I have witnessed, happened to some of the most experienced shooters I have ever known! I know that most all have learned right from a pup, all the basic stuff....but two areas that aren't usually addressed are, complacency and just plain probability......if you shoot hundereds of rounds, you'll have a few incidents in your life, that give you that electric shock reaction! If you shoot thousands of rounds a year, you'll probably go through them all! The whole idea of correct gun handling habits is just what is says...and that is, devoloping habits, that you pray to God you are doing, out of repetition, when the next thing you here is BANG! That brings me to the point that I want to convey to the forum, especially to the more inexperienced shooters.....When you have a pistol malfunction OF ANY TYPE, the first and most important thing to do is THINK! NOT ABOUT MALFUNCTIONS...but about SAFETY! I've had more guns pointed at me by confused shooters with a stove up weapon, then by all the hunters I've ever hunted with! While keeping the muzzle downrange or up, take out, or drop the mag, before you try to clear the gun....then, after waiting aprox. 30 seconds or so, carefully clear the chamber.....NOW think about malfunctions......think this sounds trite?...next time you have a malfunction, (especially when you don't expect it!) see where your brain goes first, then remember this little note....I would like to here some of the other forum members take on this and their brushes with trouble! till...later....G.T.

04-10-2001, 10:29 PM	#1
G.T. Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Chandler Arizona Posts: 3,528 Thanks: 1,334 Thanked 3,711 Times in 1,014 Posts	Safety First! kinda long! I really don't feel much like a soapbox kinda guy...but an earlier post made me think about some tough learned lessons.....In thinking back, some of the most unusual firearms accidents that I have witnessed, happened to some of the most experienced shooters I have ever known! I know that most all have learned right from a pup, all the basic stuff....but two areas that aren't usually addressed are, complacency and just plain probability......if you shoot hundereds of rounds, you'll have a few incidents in your life, that give you that electric shock reaction! If you shoot thousands of rounds a year, you'll probably go through them all! The whole idea of correct gun handling habits is just what is says...and that is, devoloping habits, that you pray to God you are doing, out of repetition, when the next thing you here is BANG! That brings me to the point that I want to convey to the forum, especially to the more inexperienced shooters.....When you have a pistol malfunction OF ANY TYPE, the first and most important thing to do is THINK! NOT ABOUT MALFUNCTIONS...but about SAFETY! I've had more guns pointed at me by confused shooters with a stove up weapon, then by all the hunters I've ever hunted with! While keeping the muzzle downrange or up, take out, or drop the mag, before you try to clear the gun....then, after waiting aprox. 30 seconds or so, carefully clear the chamber.....NOW think about malfunctions......think this sounds trite?...next time you have a malfunction, (especially when you don't expect it!) see where your brain goes first, then remember this little note....I would like to here some of the other forum members take on this and their brushes with trouble! till...later....G.T.