Accidents and near misses

[ovenpaa]

I attended a pheasant shoot years ago with the Brother in Law and his Brother in Law, they took one look at a couple of the shooters and told me to get back in the car and we went home. Some peoples reputations are such that they are best avoided.

I know of a couple of shooters who always worry me when I see them and I keep a watchful eye on them when I am shooting/RCO'ing. neither have ever done anything wrong but they worry me, a gut feeling but enough for me to be wary of them.

One is an RCO as well.

[Andy632]

On an army firing range one day when a young Tom had a stoppage with his SLR, stuck his hand up & our SSgt jumped into the fire trench to help him; BANG, screaming, lots of expletives. The SSgt had managed to loose one off into the concrete block of the fire trench, blowing a big chunk of concrete innto his arm.

Number two was a guy clearing his SLR outside the billet, remember, point it into the bin, unload, rack it 3 times look and then ease springs (something like that, memory goes with age); well, I notice three rounds come flying by me and i'm shouting STOP! STOP! STOP! when there's an almighty BANG!...Oops, full mag still firmly attached to SLR! One very busy sqaddy for some time.

[Robin128]

I'll not forget this one...mentioned it here before...

Our local club used to do clays in a nearby farm.

We were putting our guns away after a shoot...a new club member in his 80s pointed his gun at me and before I could sh1t myself went click click...what's all the fuss about, they are only my snaps he said...he didn't shoot with us again.