Guns don't just go off. I should know, I have horrible luck. If you look up Murphy's Law in the encyclopedia, it will cite:
"If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way." - Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
and next to that will be a picture of me having something go ridiculously wrong, ending in horrible injury.
Anyways, I actually have pretty good evidence that they don't just go off based on something that happened today.
I finally started with the holiday decorations today (holiday lights), because there's so much to put up that if I want to finish by Thanksgiving and have time to do my law school applications, I better start now.
Originally, my fear was of rattlesnakes, but I took care of that a few weeks ago. This week however, there have been several incidents in which the police stormed my neighborhood armed because of something. I live in a very upscale neighborhood, so stuff like that is relatively rare. Sure cops come around every so often, but usually not 10 cop cars and all of them are running around, guns drawn. That - is fairly rare. So for more than one incident in the same week of that type to occur.... well, let's just say that I'm getting my money's worth out of my CWP.
I decided today that I could do the work, AND have a snubby in the pocket. An autloader would get in the way, but a snub in the pocket would be both inconspicuous for neighbors, and would not cause any trouble.
What I didn't think about, was - I was going to be using a very tall ladder. What if I fall off?
Well, with the snub in the pocket, I more or less forgot about it, which happens a lot with it. I get up on the ladder and head up to the top of a tree. All of a sudden, I can feel the bottom of the ladder wobble. One of the corners was on ground too soft to support my weight (~300lbs). The recent rain must have muddied up the usually firm soil.
I could see it in slow motion. I'm at least 25 feet up. Usually I would have hooked on a safety harness and attached it to the tree, but it got destroyed last year and I have not yet replaced it. I'm looking down as I could see the ground moving below me. The ladder is tipping... more and more, but far too fast for me to get off. I decide to jump. At least then I won't hit metal. There's nobody around to help me and there's no other good options.... so it's now or never.
I jump, I fall, I land on my side - the side that has the snubby in the pocket. Fortunately the ground is soft enough that I wasn't hurt too badly. A few minutes of laying there and the pain pretty much passed.
I went back inside, washed my hands, and then checked the gun. Not a scratch.
It had just had a 300 pound man land on it.... and nothing.
I love how in movies how whenever somebody drops a gun it goes off. My Smith 642 just dropped 25 feet from the air and had a 300 pound man land on top of it. Not only did it not go off, it looks like nothing even happened.
Now.... as much as it goes to prove a point. I'm going to try to avoid doing that again. My butt hurts.
"If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way." - Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
and next to that will be a picture of me having something go ridiculously wrong, ending in horrible injury.
Anyways, I actually have pretty good evidence that they don't just go off based on something that happened today.
I finally started with the holiday decorations today (holiday lights), because there's so much to put up that if I want to finish by Thanksgiving and have time to do my law school applications, I better start now.
Originally, my fear was of rattlesnakes, but I took care of that a few weeks ago. This week however, there have been several incidents in which the police stormed my neighborhood armed because of something. I live in a very upscale neighborhood, so stuff like that is relatively rare. Sure cops come around every so often, but usually not 10 cop cars and all of them are running around, guns drawn. That - is fairly rare. So for more than one incident in the same week of that type to occur.... well, let's just say that I'm getting my money's worth out of my CWP.
I decided today that I could do the work, AND have a snubby in the pocket. An autloader would get in the way, but a snub in the pocket would be both inconspicuous for neighbors, and would not cause any trouble.
What I didn't think about, was - I was going to be using a very tall ladder. What if I fall off?
Well, with the snub in the pocket, I more or less forgot about it, which happens a lot with it. I get up on the ladder and head up to the top of a tree. All of a sudden, I can feel the bottom of the ladder wobble. One of the corners was on ground too soft to support my weight (~300lbs). The recent rain must have muddied up the usually firm soil.
I could see it in slow motion. I'm at least 25 feet up. Usually I would have hooked on a safety harness and attached it to the tree, but it got destroyed last year and I have not yet replaced it. I'm looking down as I could see the ground moving below me. The ladder is tipping... more and more, but far too fast for me to get off. I decide to jump. At least then I won't hit metal. There's nobody around to help me and there's no other good options.... so it's now or never.
I jump, I fall, I land on my side - the side that has the snubby in the pocket. Fortunately the ground is soft enough that I wasn't hurt too badly. A few minutes of laying there and the pain pretty much passed.
I went back inside, washed my hands, and then checked the gun. Not a scratch.
It had just had a 300 pound man land on it.... and nothing.
I love how in movies how whenever somebody drops a gun it goes off. My Smith 642 just dropped 25 feet from the air and had a 300 pound man land on top of it. Not only did it not go off, it looks like nothing even happened.
Now.... as much as it goes to prove a point. I'm going to try to avoid doing that again. My butt hurts.
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