Anyone ever shoot a hole in their house?

[TTravis]

Just asking. I have a friend of a friend who did that with a 20ga #4 shot yesterday while cleaning guns. Need some good stories to cheer him up. Also advice on aluminum siding repair would be helpful.

 

[IndyGunworks]

Dont try and cheer him up... RUB IT IN and drive the lesson home as hard as possible before he kills someone next time.

Also, print and laminate the 4 rules, frame it, and hang it on his wall for him.

 

[Big]

That can and will possibly happen to anyone. Complacency kills. Remember that. That hole could have been in a human.

 

[Landon]

Also, print and laminate the 4 rules, frame it, and hang it on his wall for him.

Over the hole in the wall???

 

[printcraft]

I clean my loaded gun all the time! Unloading it is so passe'.

 

[jworm1420]

Dont try and cheer him up... RUB IT IN and drive the lesson home as hard as possible before he kills someone next time.

Also, print and laminate the 4 rules, frame it, and hang it on his wall for him.

I agree…… my little brother did that a few years ago… it was a .22, went through the wall and lodged into the exterior wall of next door/.… Lucky he dent shoot somebody… i ragged on him about it for a long time, i still do. Not because i wanna b an a** to him but for him to understand how many lives he could have changed by that one second of complacency. I just don't wanna see anybody hurt or killed like that..

 

[gunsisgood]

No, but my Star 45acp shot a hole in my waterbed, boy was that a mess.

 

[IndyGunworks]

Over the hole in the wall???

Absolutely 100 percent without a shadow of a doubt. It could have been a hole in a person. the 4 rules will be a helpful reminder to prevent a next time from happening where the damage may be more than just a wall.

I would never try and cheer someone up after an ND by telling them its ok its just a wall and other people have had ND's also.

In case i didnt say it clear enough before. YES over a hole in the wall.

 

[WebSnyper]

No, but my Star 45acp shot a hole in my waterbed, boy was that a mess.

By itself, or did it have help?

 

[buckstopshere]

Absolutely 100 percent without a shadow of a doubt. It could have been a hole in a person. the 4 rules will be a helpful reminder to prevent a next time from happening where the damage may be more than just a wall.

I would never try and cheer someone up after an ND by telling them its ok its just a wall and other people have had ND's also.

In case i didnt say it clear enough before. YES over a hole in the wall.

i think he meant, hang the framed 4 rules OVER the hole in the wall. Instead of repairing it.

 

[TTravis]

At least it was pointed in a safe direction. This can't ever be justified, but at least
you can't shoot somebody if the firearm is pointed in a safe direction.

Cleaning rag snagged on the trigger.
It was an old, bolt action, magazine fed 20 gague with rifle sites. J.C. Higgins, which was sold
by Sears back in the 40's or 50's.
Hit the wall about 10 feet up at about a 20 degree (from vertical) angle.
Plastic wad went completely through. Will provide pictures later in the day.

 

[bacon#1]

My uncle did it with his pistol, but then again he's "that uncle".

As for the siding repair fill the hole with some auto body filler (bondo) sand smooth and paint. Or just find a plastic plug also found at the auto parts store and shove it in there.

 

[printcraft]

By itself, or did it have help?

That's one of those dangerous self shooting guns.
Just like the big deal about the SUV's years back that would go out of control and run over people unprovoked.

 

[IndyGunworks]

i think he meant, hang the framed 4 rules OVER the hole in the wall. Instead of repairing it.

Oh..... I fail.

 

[Leadeye]

I have a big block of wood for that purpose when checking chambering or after repairs. It has collected one .380 in 35 years, but that made it worth having.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I clean my loaded gun all the time! Unloading it is so passe'.

This reminds me of an electrician friend of mine that doesn't bother turning off the power to whatever he's working on...

 

[PMPORTER]

No, but a guy I work with was showing his daughter the "proper way to chamber a round" in a Bersa 380 he bought for her and shot through 2 quarts of motor oil he had sitting in a case on his living room floor !!! Same guys son was showing a friend a single six and the guy fired a round right through the front window and hit the brick outside thank god ! No worries now as he got in trouble and no longer has any firearms !!!

 

[AtTheMurph]

I didn't but my brother did.

Back in the mid-70s my older brother (5yrs older) discovered reefer. He'd smoke in the basement then appear at the top of the stairs and do some crazy stuff. One time he grabbed the old .22 Remington octagon barrel and went outside to shoot quarters at point blank range. Wouldn't go through but made a cool looking souvenir.

I was watching cartoons with my younger brother and older one walked into the room and started pointing the gun at us. First me, then little bro, then me and back and forth until he pointed it at me and pulled the trigger. All I remember was the puff of gas out the end of the barrel and the look in his eyes and the feeling that something went through my hair. I looked at little bro and he had the same look as my older brother.

He missed my head by we figure 1/4 inch (from maybe 14 feet away). Put a nice little hole int he wood paneling that my mother didn't figure out until Thanksgiving dinner about 12 years ago (30yrs after it happened.) She nearly died of a heart attack in her chair. Poor woman.

I would thank the reefer for the bad shooting but I've hunted with my brothers and know he's just a terrible shot. Always misses high!

 

[gunsisgood]

That's one of those dangerous self shooting guns.
Just like the big deal about the SUV's years back that would go out of control and run over people unprovoked.

^This
Mechanical malfunction but yes I was holding the gun, finger OFF the trigger pointed at unoccupied waterbed clicked off the safety gun went BANG !
Could have been MUCH worse.
Lesson learned, Never even load a new to you gun until you take it to the range and run the crap out of it no matter what the seller (gun shop or not) tells you.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Dont try and cheer him up... RUB IT IN and drive the lesson home as hard as possible before he kills someone next time.

Also, print and laminate the 4 rules, frame it, and hang it on his wall for him.

I would have to disagree absolutely. One of two things is happening now--either he is beating himself up bad enough without anyone else's help, and if he isn't, he is probably too obtuse for any amount of censure to do any good.