VaughnT
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I took a buddy to the gun club today to sight-in his deer rifle. We took our service pistols and I brought my Ruger M77 .270 to play with and let him shoot.
Well, we were looking over his recent find, a Winchester 94 in .32 Win Spl., and finding that the scope was off by a hair. I pulled out my Ruger to see if the scope was still on.
My buddy was firing away, enjoying the new gun, when he asked me a question. I swear to god that I remember drawing my bolt back and taking the round out of the chamber. Guess I didn't, though, as we were halfway through our conversation when I touched the trigger and sent a round through the roof over the shooting bench. The range was hot so everyone had hearing protection on (there was only one other shooter).
I'm never going to live this down, but I'm glad that at least one of the safety rules wasn't violated and the weapon was pointed in a safe direction.
No matter how good you are with a gun, you might be the fastest shooter to ever come down the pike, you simply cannot take weapons safety for granted. Every single time you take the weapon off the target, you need to clear that chamber! Every time.
Well, we were looking over his recent find, a Winchester 94 in .32 Win Spl., and finding that the scope was off by a hair. I pulled out my Ruger to see if the scope was still on.
My buddy was firing away, enjoying the new gun, when he asked me a question. I swear to god that I remember drawing my bolt back and taking the round out of the chamber. Guess I didn't, though, as we were halfway through our conversation when I touched the trigger and sent a round through the roof over the shooting bench. The range was hot so everyone had hearing protection on (there was only one other shooter).
I'm never going to live this down, but I'm glad that at least one of the safety rules wasn't violated and the weapon was pointed in a safe direction.
No matter how good you are with a gun, you might be the fastest shooter to ever come down the pike, you simply cannot take weapons safety for granted. Every single time you take the weapon off the target, you need to clear that chamber! Every time.