Embarrassing moments- come on, tell us!

The things we do that as soon as we do them we realise how stupid they are. Tell all!!


To start a couple of mine.
Getting the Blackwolf ready today I noticed pressure was low. Had a quick curse for a leaky gun and filled it on the compressor. Took about 15 seconds…. Had a look and gauge hadn’t moved. Double curse to to daystate for leaks and faulty components!!
Then turned it over and realised I was looking at the reg gauge…

A number of years ago I put my wolverine in its bag. No one else at the range and I suddenly wondered if I had left it loaded. Pulled the trigger to check and yes, there was one in the spout. On leaving the aforesaid spout, it proceeded to shoot through the bag taking the zip with it. That was 40 quids worth of bag I’ll never get back!

Shot a perfect .22 hole in the kitchen wall panelling when cleaning a rifle, too big for woodworm so had to fess up, live and learn

As a kid, had a red rider Winchester. Above out fireplace was a horse picture, thought gun was empty, aimed at main subject and pulled the trigger. Shot it in the head. Still a bb in. It was the type of picture with no glass luckily, so I filled the hole with grey fag ash ( grey horse). It was ok for a while till my mum wiped the picture with a damp cloth.

Week before last at the range I took out my .177 HW99, well I took out the bag I USED to keep it in, only to unzip it and realised that it now contained a .25 Hatsan. Did I have any .25 pellets? Of course not. ( I did have 2 other guns with me though so did get to shoot)

When I was a kid (well early teens) I had a BSA Scorpion pistol, I was in the garage having a play and tried to be Dirty Harry with a big recoiling gun, unfortunatley I timed it wrong and pulled the trigger as the gun was moving up and smashed the window, now sh*tting myself I had a cunning plane and got a soil covered stone from ourside and placed it in the garage, Father put two and two together and guessed that some kid had thrown a stone through the window, result!!! 35 years later I confessed over a pint with him

Not me but a mate. He used his wardrobe door as a backstop when "tuning " and he got some Titan Black pellets to try .

They were ok accuracy wise at less than 10ft in his house . He had shot around 25 or so at the target on the door .

When he closed the wardrobe door he noticed they had been going through the door . They had then went through the wall which was a compressed wood resin type material that was hollow, it resembled looking at the edge of cardboard, it had long tube like sections along it's length . They were passing through the wall also in to his sisters bed room. .

He filled the holes with toothpaste and painted his sister wall and put a poster over the holes in his wall as he had no paint the colour of his wall .

The wardrobe door's were removed and he told his mum he like the open look rather than doors.

My other mate shot in his house also.

He could get around 20 feet or so from the bathroom to the wall in his room. He had a target on board against the wall.

One day we were in his garden and there was stones from the wall on the slabs outside and he looked at the wall to see where they could have came from and he was a bits of something sticking out the wall . He got the ladder and had a look and he could see right through into the room . He had shot through the plasterboard and the outer wall.

The outer wall was a glass fibre and resin board with stones on the outside and glass wool in the middle and it was the glass wool sticking out the hole with some of the glass fibre strands of the wall boards . You can see the sheets of the outer wall covering here



He managed to patch to up with silicone sealer and stones from ground around the houses as they were always being rubbed off . As he lived in a two story it was high up and you would not notice unless looking for it . He then used Polyfilla inside and patched the wall and painted it .

My only real blunder was twirling my HW45 on my finger and it slipped and smashed the coffee table in the living room . Told my mum I slipped and dropped a cup of tea on it and it shattered the glass .

It’s been over a year since this happened and I’m STILL getting ribbed over it!

Definitely my most embarrassing moment!

Was re-assembling my springer after changing the trigger, got the front stocks bolts fitted then got called in by the Mrs for tea. Came back out and I was too eager to try the new trigger that I’d forgotten the rear stock bolt. Tried to cock the rifle and heard the most awful sound of the stock splitting in half

Shot my LMBR with a pistol, luckily it was right on the end of one of the push button switches, got a new one off eBay for £3 and fixed it with no visual damage left to be seen

Watching a squirrel once (25 odd years ago), I carefully cocked the underlever of my airsporter, popped a pellet into the loading tap.
Took aim.
And broke two bones in my left hand!
Totally forgotten to return the lever.
Not something you’ll ever do twice

Chronographs are not at all partial to .300 Win Mag, - particularly when it doesn't belong to you

Yep... Doing a little fine-tuning and chrono testing at home one morning. Shooting into my target holder / pellet catcher and after a while noted a distinct change in tone, more of a thud than the usual metallic twang. Upon further investigation...



What you see below is my feeble attempt at patching up the hole that was made by several pellets passing straight through the Tallboy chest of drawers . Thankfully, it's a cheap Ikea item in the spare room. I patched the hole, crudely, I might add, with a piece of the laminate foil that came away from the drawer, and coloured the surrounding area with a permanent marker, which actually masked it quite well. We were cleaning a couple of months later, and I began polishing the tallboy when my partner said, 'Be careful not to pull out the rubbish repair job that you did after shooting the drawers. ' I look up at her sheepishly, and she says 'I found pellets in my socks!' To be fair, despite despairing of my antics, she does laugh at my idiocy

Drove all the way to Anston (Sheffield) to support my mate Bri Sanson’s NEFTA Hunter Series-opened the case to have a five minute plink prior to shooting, only to realise I had brought the wrong rifle

After being asked to coach several relatively new shooters at Shepreth, particularly free-standing shots, I was carefully explaining posture, breathing and bone support rather than just muscle use/control, a group of about 20 competitors gathered around.
A big cheer went up as the lady nailed her first ever stander.
Another cheer as her partner nailed it (a relatively easy 40mm at 20-25 yds).

You guessed it.
Much hilarity as I fluffed my shot*
I think I summed it up when I admonished myself:

“You absolute tw*t!!!”

*Fortunately It was my solitary miss that day. Honour was regained.
Almost

In a recent club competition, I managed to load a pellet backwards. I didn't win the comp

I shot the laser dot spud out of a .223 rifle I was sighting in.

The one lying on the bench, and thought was the one I'd used and removed, was a different calibre.......

Woodcrafts said:

In a recent club competition, I managed to load a pellet backwards. I didn't win the comp

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At least the pellet went in the rifle-I have witnessed experienced shooters get a zero for blasting nought but compressed air downrange

Cutting down a main spring and heated it up red hot to collapse it, which I did successfully!

Job done. Now I'll just pick that up.......................................

Twas, what is commonly known as 'quite hot'.

ChrisHobbs said:

Watching a squirrel once (25 odd years ago), I carefully cocked the underlever of my airsporter, popped a pellet into the loading tap.
Took aim.
And broke two bones in my left hand!
Totally forgotten to return the lever.
Not something you’ll ever do twice

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Oh dear!

Squirrel won that battle, one might say!

At the range last Saturday, loaded a mag for my 457. Two mates behind me, fired the first round pulled the bolt back and the mag fell out
Oh how they laughed, mates for you!

After 40 years of being very careful to avoid accidental discharges I shot a hole in my kitchen ceiling a couple of years ago.

ChrisHobbs said:

Watching a squirrel once (25 odd years ago), I carefully cocked the underlever of my airsporter, popped a pellet into the loading tap.
Took aim.
And broke two bones in my left hand!
Totally forgotten to return the lever.
Not something you’ll ever do twice

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Ouch! I have straightened a few barrels on breakers through that bending them upwards a tad & lectured the owners that they were lucky not to be hurt. Always wondered how bad it would be on an underlever as I nearly did it once on my RB carbine but noticed just in time.