Accidental discharge.

[redneck1861]

thank you for the kind words everyone, yall are being nicer than most people when they find out what happened, and yes I did learn, that no matter how safe you think you are with firearms, you should never get to comfortable, I learned that the hard way

 

[348]

Never become complacent. That was an expensive lesson learned. Not in the form of money, but potential permanent damage to the hand. I wish you the best of luck in your recovery.

 

[waltham41]

Glad you are doing better....

When I was 13 or so, my stepbrother handed me a .22 semi auto rifle in the house. I asked him if it was unloaded, he said yes.

I pointed it up at the ceiling, pulled the trigger and it wasnt.

Talk about a fast patch job on that tiny hole before the old man got home.

I have been very fortunate since then, and got off with an easy lesson.

 

[alank2]

Hi redneck1861,

Good on you for posting about your ND. I hope you continue to recover and get full use of your hand.

I too had a ND about 7 years ago. I was "testing" a trigger and went to reset it but thought I hadn't pulled the slide back far enough to chamber a round. Yes, I knew there were bullets in the mag. It was a stupid moment of not thinking and that is all it takes. I was lucky, I had followed the rule about pointing in a safe direction and the bullet did no damage to anything important. It could have been much worse, but I learned an important lesson and got a helping of hurt pride that day:

I used to think I was so careful and safe that a ND could never happen to me, but that was a big mistake and I became complacent. My new thinking is that "A ND could happen to me at anytime if I let my guard down".

Other things I've also changed:

I keep a gun loaded only if it needs to be loaded.
I keep loaded guns IN a holster that covers the trigger.
I don't remove them from that holster unless I have a good reason, and if I do, they get unloaded immediately.
I stay away from the trigger unless I have a good reason not to, and if I need to do something with the trigger, I unload and verify unloaded again and again.

Take care,

Alan

 

[tm8634]

thank you for the kind words everyone, yall are being nicer than most people when they find out what happened,

so far...but get ready there are a few *sses on here so dont get to worked up when they state the obvious...

 

[Seedy]

Ouch...

I hope you heal up "good as new"

Any chance of a picture of the wound?

 

[Pulp]

My daughter is a nurse at the Mercy Heart ER, used to work at Mercy ER. She moved up there from the Idabel, OK ER after a divorce. At Idabel they saw everything, and on a regular basis. She worked at Mercy ER three years before a gunshot victim came in, and she was the only nurse there that had ever treated gunshots. It wasn't a bad one, just a .22 in the knee from a negligent discharge.

Anyway, in your case I hope there was some more nursing experience with gunshots since my daughter moved to the Heart ER.

Best wishes on the recovery of your hand.

 

[SiGArmed]

No such thing as a accidental discharge.

Hope you make a full recovery.

 

[zoomaster1]

yes I did learn, that no matter how safe you think you are with firearms, you should never get to comfortable, I learned that the hard way

No one could have said it better. Hope all heals well.

 

[RickN]

I hope you heal soon.

I keep several loaded revolvers around the house and office so I am always extremely careful, but know you can never be careful enough.