decided I wanted a peep hole going from my room, thru my sisters and into the outside wall…
Yes ppl, I had a AD. I was racking the slide with my left hand when the 2 fingers that are broken got bumped. Caused me to slip and start dropping my 1911, which when I grabbed it, I grabbed it wrong, with my finger into the trigger guard, which proceeded to put a nice .45 hole thru my walls and my sisters bedroom door… which was open(only reason it hit the door)… Luckily my sister no longer lives here(at college), and I was the only one home other than my mom… who was freaked the hell out, like myself…
less learned… dont use a hand with broken fingers to wrack a slide… just glad I didnt shoot myself…and that my mom was upstairs…
Glad nobody got an owie! We have had more that a few AD’s at my PD, usually glocks at the cleaning table . This past week my wife and I did a one day basic handgun with Louie Awerbuck. Some knucklehead behind us on the line was fiddling with his 1911 just alittle out of the holster…Bang, he plants one right into the concrete floor. I thought Louie was going to kill him. It bears repeating, no matter how long youuve been around guns, have to careful.
that aint no shit. when i went to rack the slide to “clear” my 1911, idk what I did, but my the pain in my fingers was worse than when i actually broke them… heard/felt a pop when I was about 1/4 of the way thru the rack of the slide. thats what made me start to drop the gun, then it was one of those fumble to grab it things before it hit the ground and i grabbed it, with my right hand. my middle finger went into the trigger, and my left hand(broken finger hand) went to secure it, i must have pushed forward enough that i pulled the trigger… was one of those, did that seriously just happen… as im going my fingers really hurt… and staring at the hole…
Lesson learned and thankfully no one was hurt (not in a building full of people) and that’s the best part. Hope the fingers heal up good for future shooting.
Two guys at work had AD’s a while back. 1.) AR while checking it outside a vehicle before putting it away, racked a round and sent it through the parking lot with employees coming and going on foot and by vehicle. 2.) Two individuals handed a Rem 870 loaded with a less-lethal rnd. from one set of hands to another with round chambered, safety off and bean bag went through some sheet rock in the office building. Thankfully no one was hurt in either incident.
thanks. yea, hadn’t cleaned my 1911 since the last time i shot it which was just over a month ago, so i was gonna take it out to the garage and give it a quick clean. guess thats what i get for 1. being in a hurry and 2. trying to rack the slide with the bad hand.
oh well, lesson learned… just gotta fix a few holes and get a new door(good thing hollow core interior doors are relatively cheap)
I agree with cschwanz, fix 'em but leave the hole in the room of the originating incident. Not to sound like a smart*ss, but you could sign and date it. They make us do that if we shoot a barricade at training. Just as a reminder…
I have an uncle that was practicing his trigger squeeze while watching a movie, unfortunately he got a little too into his movie and forgot that he had placed the mag back in and racked it. A 9mm didn’t make it all the way through a 27" tube television. Luckly he was home alone and nobody got hurt. strange thing was that nobody in the apt complex called the cops…
yea, that 45 didnt really have much to stop it. there was no stud behind it, just some drywall and wood paneling and a hollow core interior door. only thing that stopped it was it hit an exterior wall, which is concrete being that the bedrooms are in the basement of my house.
I read about the guy a few weeks(months?) ago that killed himself when he fumbled his gun and went to grab it and shot himself. I have since drilled into myself if I ever fumble a gun just to let it go, no matter what it is or how much it costs.
With that said are 1911’s drop safe like a Glock or M&P? I would think yes, but with the hammer, I am not 100% sure since I am new to the platform.
