Gun Safety... real stories...

About 4 years ago, we were sitting in the duck boat. My buddy had the gun leanign against the blind, barrel pointed up & out with the butt stock between his feet. He was wearing knee boots with straps on the inside. One of the straps some how got into the trigger guard and got tangled up with the trigger. AND he had forgot to put his safety back on. He shifted his feet, the strap pulled the trigger and it went off 1' from his face. He turned white, scared to death. Could easily have taken his face off if the gun fell backwards before it went off. Scariest gun safety moment I have ever had.
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I pooped a little just reading that part. Yyyiiikes!


Nate
 
Good thread Andrew,
I have a friend, Mark (yes, he's still with us). His brother, Rich, was in my classes when I taught school.....years ago. Anyhow, Mark worked for me in construction on an apprentice/college program back in about '83. We also taught Mark how to shoot as well as gun safety. We drummed gun safety into him. Took him trap shooting, skeet shooting and taught him to hunt. He was prepped and was very aware of his muzzle and safety.
Unfortunately, his buddy wasn't (will call him "Sam"). Opening day of gun/deer season in Michigan, Mark & Sam headed out to the woods. Mark had is gun unloaded & cased in the back seat and was getting it out of the case. "Sam", on the other hand, had preloaded his gun (shotgun/slugs) and stored it in the case in the trunk. As he was pulling it out of the case, the gun went off and took our half of Mark's stomach. He went through several surgeries and, one I remember, when his friends/family were called in on New Years Eve and told that Mark needed to go back into surgery and they recommended that everyone ... say their goodbyes. The doctors were not sure he'd come out of surgery alive. Pretty emotional.
Mark has survived and is doing well but I don't know if he hunts anymore.
Be safe out there.
Lou
 
Seventeen years ago, I was hunting ducks with one of my brothers and his friends along the Platte River in Nebraska. There were six of us in a pit blind. The action got slow and one of the guys had to take a nature break. He had a BPS 10 gage and it was sitting in the gun rest with the action open. He climbed out of the blind, then asked my brother to hand his shotgun to him. My brother grabbed the shotgun by the fore end and lifted it up and handed it to his buddy. Just as his buddy was leaning forward to take the gun, the slide closed and the gun went off! His buddy went to the ground and we all thought that he had taken a direct hit! Luckily, the shot missed him, but he got a little powder burnt and tremendous muzzle blast. To his credit, he shook it off and kept hunting. Needless to say, they took the BPS out of service. One of the other guys had a spare gun in his car and lent it to the guy with the BPS. The BPS was sent to a gun smith and it was found out that the 10 gage version had a problem with firing on closing sometimes.
 
Boyd, Do you have any more info on the BPS-10 problem. We have several in our group and they are all early ones. Non of ours have had a problem yet but if you know something I would appreciate it.
 
I was so scared that Dad would beat my tail, that I never messed with his guns unless he was present. The Switch over the door in the kitchen was omnipresent and we also had a stay at home Mom who told Dad everything. Different days and very different strokes (sadly). LOCK YOUR GUNS as we want nothing to happen to you and your loved ones and we certainly don't want to give the anti's any more ammo.

Happy New Year,

Harry
 
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