Gun nightmares

[EMC45]

Mine have been bullets bouncing off pursuers and reloading a revolver (I carry them in dreams and real life) and it’s a large caliber and I have small caliber ammo that falls through the cylinder holes.

 

[.308 Norma]

My recurring school nightmare was getting to the end of the semester and finding out right before the end of the semester there was a class I didn’t know was on my schedule but I needed to complete to graduate. Probably due to the fact that I actually wound up taking a class that had a prerequisite, while taking the prerequisite, because I screwed up. I could put some blame my advisor, but I won’t. Can you say “linear algebra and differential equations” and “applied differential equations” in the same semester? It was not pretty.

It's weird, but I had a few of those recurring "unprepared" nightmares about college for a while after I graduated too, and I didn't even go to college until after I retired in 2001. The fact is, our youngest daughter was a graduating senior at Idaho State University the same year I was a 1st year freshman there.
At any rate, just to keep this gun related - when I was in college (2001-2004) on-campus carry in Idaho was illegal even with a Concealed Carry License, and I found myself hot-footing it back across the quad a few times because I'd forgotten to lock my gun in my truck before heading for class. A few years after I graduated though, on-campus carry in Idaho was legalized (with an Idaho "Enhanced" Concealed Carry License). So, if I was to go back for my Masters, I wouldn't have to worry about forgetting to remove my gun before heading for class. I don't see any reason to invite any of those "unprepared" college nightmares back though. Like I said, I'm retired, and nowadays my nightmares are about forgetting to take my evening meds before going to bed.

 

[starling]

2 pages and nobody has said it yet from what I read.

The Real Gun Nightmare is when you get shot with one! Hopefully not your own. Self injuring negligent discharges might even bring on more PTSD than surviving attempted murder.

The only "gun nightmare" I remember having when I was a kid was some action adventure when I was running around like John McClaine and the sear would not release the hammer every time or if it did release not ignite/detonate the primer (light strike). Might be why I have such a preference for pistols with double strike capability.

Most of my "gun dreams" are positive. Ive had a few where I figured out troubleshooting solutions (basketcase guns) when dreaming after working on a pistol and getting frustrated before putting it down and stepping away before sleeping.

In the physical world my first Accu-tek was a bit of a nightmare to make 100% reliable, get all the glitches out of the trigger, and have the safety actually work as designed..... but I learned a lot. Its possibly the hardest simple blowback Ive ever worked on.

Only nightmares I can remember lately revolve around sharks so Im taking a break from that kind of content.

 

[230RN]

Fifty pound trigger pull....

Me too. It was a Walther PPK. And it wasn’t a dream!!!

Magazine disconnects are design defects and an abomination unto the Lord.

 

[herrwalther]

For someone with Ophidophobia, that would be, without a doubt, a nightmare. Beyond a safe full of rusty guns. Unless you have a phobia of rust.

I have no love of snakes. But not afraid of them. I am more afraid of finding significant rust on a firearm than snakes.