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lean over while staining some wood, and drop a 1911 magazine out of your jacket lapel pocket, right into the gallon stain can in front of you? Well, I just did today. Anyone else had an "ooops" they want to share? I'm sure someone can beat mine. Only took me 20 minutes to clean MOST of the stain out of the magazine (some is in the corners at the bottom that I just can't get at) and wiping the spring, follower, and rounds off. :eek:
 
Did You Ever Do Something Stupid, like......
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Like standing up with my Benchmade 941 open in my lap?

It fell silently and, literally, stuck into my big toe with a soft "thunk." :what:

Not particularly painful, but the blood...
 
I'd put those rounds in the "practice ammo" category. They are probably okay but you don't want to take any chances.
 
Like Highorder, my "Oops" is blade-related.

In highschool I collected straight razors. One night I was sitting at the kitchen table doing homework, idly fiddling with one of my newer purchases, and without thinking, I scratched an itch on my back.

About ten seconds later, I reached behind me to investigate the wierd kinda wet, burning sensation I felt on my back, and realized that I had laid myself open with the razor. It was so f'in sharp that I didn't even realize that I had cut myself.

Luckily it wasn't very deep, so we got closed up at home without visiting the emergency room. I learned to respect my razors (and all sharp things) pretty quickly from there on.
 
Like letting someone borrow a boner blade out of my back pocket 'for a minute' while I am working on a carcass, and letting them put it back without checking which way they turned the blade? = 3 bad ouches
 
I can feel your pain, dropping something out of a chest pocket, except when I did it, it was my cell phone, dropping into a 5 gal bucket of car wash soap/water.:(
 
Did You Ever Do Something Stupid, like.....

In a rush to leave the house, leave the J-frame on the roof of the wife's truck while your loading the wife and kids and the rest of the gear up. Drive about a mile, hear a clunk, look in the rearview mirror and see your snubbie (unloaded) tumbling down the gravel road.
 
wow bmf, that WOULD suck! Ha.

I guess the worst I've done is drop my cellphone from the pocket of my hooded sweatshirt directly into the urinal of a public toilet.... Yuck.
 
I've done plenty of stupid stuff. Does driving 30 miles to a range without the bolt count? :eek:
 
like holding the staple gun backwards and putting one into the knuckles of your pinky finger?
 
No, but I had a co-worker who performed that particular maneuver with his brand new touch screen cell phone and a pan of engine oil.
 
Had drilled a 4 inch 35 foot water well. Billfold in right shirt pocket. Leaned over to look how much water in hole. Oops billfold hit hole dead center.
Was able to retreave with a straightened out treble hook and telescoping
hot stick.
 
I don't know if this counts, but I CCW my handguns with a shoulder holster, and while trying to holster my Beretta 92fs, I somehow missed the holster but didn't realize it. When I let go of the pistol to snap the thumb break, it fell down through my jacket and landed on a cement floor, dinging up the finish on the beavertail.
 
Well... I once left my lil beretta tomcat on the roof of my truck, drove to my brothers house to dump a bed full of dirt 12+ miles away. Got out to start shoveling dirt and hey!!!! what do u know there's my baby still sitting on the roof. I couldn't believe it, I even took the freeway....
 
some is in the corners at the bottom that I just can't get at
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Get a spray can of your favorite gun cleaner/solvent and blast it out. If still there, get some of those polymer picks and a cloth and work at it a bit more. If it is still a problem, find some solvent and let on the gunk or soak it in a small container just so the liquid covers the bottom of the mag.



At least you didn't drop the whole gun in the stain :D



I've done plenty of stupid stuff. Does driving 30 miles to a range without the bolt count?
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Yup it certainly counts...I managed to do that once with the mags for an semi-auto rifle. I was just pulling into the range when it dawned on me that I left the mags in my other range bag... :banghead:
 
Fortunately for me, I've never done anything stupid!

However, I have done a few things that were just flat out idiotic!
 
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Oh I've done the leave the bolt thing at home!

Ever done something stupid like shoot a piece of granite/sandstone from 20ft away with 7.62x54r heavy ball and watch in horror as a cloud of shrapnel heads towards you and your friend in slowmo?
 
Ever done something stupid like shoot a piece of granite/sandstone from 20ft away with 7.62x54r heavy ball and watch in horror as a cloud of shrapnel heads towards you and your friend in slowmo?
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Eep! Thankfully no. I've seen people shoot all manner of things on YouTube and have some of those things come flying back at them in whole or in part.

Reason # 2365 of why you should always wear eye protection.
 
When I was pretty young, maybe 10 or so, my best friend and I were out "hunting" with our new BB guns. At the time I didn't really understand the concept of sighting-in a rifle, but had always been deadly accurate with all my BB/pellet rifles before. Well, I thought it would be funny to shoot the base of a big tree about 4 feet from him, ignoring all the safety rules my dad had taught me. Well, I nailed him square in the calf, and the BB went about an inch in. So much for the sights being "spot on" like my other airguns. He was such a good friend that he wouldn't dare tell on me and he let me do "surgery" on him with some tweezers. lol.


We're still best friends to this day, and we've both done a LOT more dumb things together.
 
Note: Never remove a revolver from the center console while in a moving vehicle. Someone cuts you off (no running lights at night!), hand jerks to the shifter, and now there's a new hole below the stereo. :uhoh:

2.5" .38 special in an enclosed space: you only hear about half the 'pop'. And then not much else for the rest of the evening.

A little less frightening, had my Saiga in a vice to remove the front sight block. Finally freed the sight, and the rifle came out of the vice and landed the corner of the stock directly on my right big toe. Broken bone, and the nail died at the cuticle. Broke it December of last year at the latest, and it was in three pieces up until a week or two ago.
 
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