AD in my garage

[GammaRei]

AD in my garage

I only have a Revolver, kinda really difficult for me to not notice that a round is in the chamber. I always use a light source to make sure its clear just to be safe. But other than me bein a moron and sayin Im so safe (knocks on wood) its glad to hear that you and yer dad are ok.

- G

PS: Teach yer dad to double check.

[robitrocks]

if you really want to be sure that it is empty, lock the slide back and stick a pinky inside the chamber. that said, if you do ever find a round in there you have not been servicing / observing your gun properly and you will need to replace that extractor at least at that point.

Good point.

[CSACANNONEER]

With regards to the bullet, it's highly unlikely that it disintegrated. If anything, the jacket sheared from the lead core and they are in separate pieces.

You're more than welcome to come to the indoor range I work at. Shoot at the steel plate backing 50' down range and see how much of a FMJ is left after hitting something hard. 10:1 the bullet is now just lead dust and a few small fragments of copper.

[N6ATF]

my worst accident story is kinda funny. we were out squirrel hunting and it was slow, so, i was positive the rifle was empty with no round in the chamber and took a practice pull sighted on a bird way the heck off in the distance sitting on a wood fence post. "BOOM" and we see a cloud of what looks like feathers. luckily for the bird he was out of my zeroed range and i didnt compensate by aiming high. knocked a hole in the fence post a few inches below the birds feet. we were seeing fence dust and splinters, not feathers. the bird didnt even fly away, he shakes off and i swear, birds can have mad faces.

Ha!

Let me just say...

This has nothing to do with the gun in question being a Glock. There was also a 1911 mentioned in this thread.

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Thanks for your useful insight and contribution to this thread.

Turby

My sarcasm is just not able to be appreciated on this side of the pond...

[Turbinator]

My sarcasm is just not able to be appreciated on this side of the pond...

Sorry. I didn't see a sarcasm smiley in your post, though.

Turby

[StraightShooter]

When I put away my home defense pistol (beretta m9) i put the loaded mag in a little more than half way. In the event that i need the gun all i have to do is push it in the rest of the way and rack the slide. If i go to pick it up and give it to someone to look at then the magazine will either fall out on its own or if for some reason it doesnt fall out, it isnt high enough to enable a round to be chambered. Of course though I still always make it a point to detatch the mag, check and recheck my gun before handing it to anyone.

[sloguy]

ive taken to the habit that any gun i keep loaded at home i stick a blue piece of masking tape with the word "loaded" written on it. it seems to be a good system.

[E Pluribus Unum]

ive taken to the habit that any gun i keep loaded at home i stick a blue piece of masking tape with the word "loaded" written on it. it seems to be a good system.

Your system invites death and is VERY dangerous.

There is a much better system; every gun is always loaded all of the time; check and re-check; THAT is the only system.

[Ironchef]

To the OP,
Shouldn't YOU have cleared it before giving it to him? Or did he grab it from your safe and do his "negligent" check?

When doing my HSC and studying basic gun handling, I believe it's mentioned that ANY person handling a firearm should clear it...even if it's going back and forth between two people. "Assuming" it's always loaded is the reason.

[N6ATF]

Sorry. I didn't see a sarcasm smiley in your post, though.

Turby

If you have to say you're being sarcastic, you might as well not say have said anything sarcastic at all.

[eckerph]

(My Dad is a former M.P. and a retired deputy Sheriff so he knows firearms)

99% this statement is very false.