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junglie2022
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Not with guns but I did something just as daft as as a lad ,while smashing something apart with a housebrick on the corner of a big girder sticking out of the ground at the local tip, got distracted a second & smashed the knuckle of my middle finger, so yes I KNOW it hurts!....lol. Makes you do a little dance I find before the screams.Well wonder no more.
It fecking HURTS!!
Not gun related, But got called out by Mrs to the supermarket an hour ago. She’s burrowed my truck and The handbrakes stuck on and I’ve tried everything! …… everything other than moving your handbag from underneath it love 
I have made so many "oops" in my 40 some years of shooting i should not be near a tin of pellets even... Remember when I was a teen and had been shooting at the grandparents house and it started to rain, went home and started wiping of the water when BAM and I suddenly got a .22 hole in the roof, luckily i was home alone so I put a white piece of tape over it...
More recently but some years ago I bought a crosman 1077 co2 rifle, gf was away for the weekend so I decided i should test it, it was mid winter so i set up my pelletcatcher (big box filled with clothes) and a target against the balconydoor and layed down some 5m away, this was the first time I tried it, the trigger was very hard so I pulled the shot right into the white door... panicked a bit and Googled how to make it look like it hadn't happened, cut some wood to fit the hole and tried everything from tipex, glue and toothpaste but still a dark dent in the door, went and bought some white paint and put layer and layer around the hole and then painted the hole door, luckily we had painters there the same year to paint around the windows and balcony and they didn't do a great job so my amateur skills didn't look any different...
And chronys, well i think i have bought more than 5 cheap Chinese chronys cause I somehow manage to shoot those little sensors away...
More recently but some years ago I bought a crosman 1077 co2 rifle, gf was away for the weekend so I decided i should test it, it was mid winter so i set up my pelletcatcher (big box filled with clothes) and a target against the balconydoor and layed down some 5m away, this was the first time I tried it, the trigger was very hard so I pulled the shot right into the white door... panicked a bit and Googled how to make it look like it hadn't happened, cut some wood to fit the hole and tried everything from tipex, glue and toothpaste but still a dark dent in the door, went and bought some white paint and put layer and layer around the hole and then painted the hole door, luckily we had painters there the same year to paint around the windows and balcony and they didn't do a great job so my amateur skills didn't look any different...
And chronys, well i think i have bought more than 5 cheap Chinese chronys cause I somehow manage to shoot those little sensors away...
Sid60
Super member
Few month ago was cleaning the collection in the man cave had the wolverine on the Caldwell station didnt realise I’d left one up the spout from using ssl, touched the trigger bang looked across the room and the widescreen gaming monitor was no more lol 
ChrisHobbs
Member Extraordinaire
Way back when I was in my late teens, my best mate used to date the daughter of the local kennel master/knackerman.
He had a .22 pistol on license for dispatching sick farm animals.
He was “retiring” a ram and managed to put the bullet straight through the rams skull, top to bottom, and shoot himself in the left foot!
He was soo embarrassed he didn’t tell anyone, and worked the rest of the morning with his wellington boot slowly filling up with blood.
We were in the kitchen when he limped in.
The words his wife used on him before she bundled him off to A&E were priceless!
He had a .22 pistol on license for dispatching sick farm animals.
He was “retiring” a ram and managed to put the bullet straight through the rams skull, top to bottom, and shoot himself in the left foot!
He was soo embarrassed he didn’t tell anyone, and worked the rest of the morning with his wellington boot slowly filling up with blood.
We were in the kitchen when he limped in.
The words his wife used on him before she bundled him off to A&E were priceless!
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ChrisHobbs
Member Extraordinaire
I’m not even going to start listing the stupid things that I’ve done to myself at work!
(Your talking to someone who once sank a claw hammer into their own forehead
)Needless to say, my wife dreads coming home and finding an NHS wound care pamphlet on the coffee table.
It’s becoming a bit of a standing joke as to how many I can collect.
Whinger
Member Extraordinaire
An accidental/negligent discharge in the lounge. The curtains were drawn, the pellet went through and hit the floor to ceiling sliding patio door. A hell of a crash and I thought it had smashed. Luckily, very luckily it hadn't. The worse part was, the memsahib was sat behind me in the room and she pointed out the hole in the curtain. It's still there after 5 years! She won't let me repair it, I think she's after new ones but I'm holding out.
Not gun related but went on a tinder date she was taking care of things head was bobbing up and down and then the tummy pains started not what you want when her head is there. This was happening and happening in a few seconds had to make an excuse for her to stop and go to the bathroom destroyed her bathroom left the window open but i think she still knew what happened
She is definitely a "Keeper"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...
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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
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Greencloud
Busy member
Apart from posting photos of my shockingly bad pellet testing 'groups' on here?
Just shooting one of the bulb things off my last chrono really. Indoor chrono tests had been carefully set up and carried our successfully - a funnel trap stuffed with rags was doing its job nicely, with the chrono strapped to the muzzle of my rifles.
A tempest and a p17 can't really have the chrono strapped on though. I should've waited til I could fire them in a safe general direction and concentrate on a clear path through the chrono, ah well...
Just shooting one of the bulb things off my last chrono really. Indoor chrono tests had been carefully set up and carried our successfully - a funnel trap stuffed with rags was doing its job nicely, with the chrono strapped to the muzzle of my rifles.
A tempest and a p17 can't really have the chrono strapped on though. I should've waited til I could fire them in a safe general direction and concentrate on a clear path through the chrono, ah well...
Tell her it's "shabby chic"-all the rage in certain quarters.
Then ask if she would like you to modify any over soft furnishings.....
Wing Commander
Member Extraordinaire
Not shooting related but an incident whilst shopping in a supermarket with my wife in the days before we had kids.
I had left her to fill the trolley while I took a diversion to the alcohol aisles, where I found a great deal on some wine.
So I went to find my wife.... and there she was, happily putting stuff in the trolley. She had her back to me so I thought I would give her a surprise. . . I slapped her on her arse and whispered over her shoulder, " They have a great deal on wine. Let's get some, and when we get home I will do the cooking and we can have a naughty night."
The only problem was she wasn't my wife, but was someone dressed the same way. . . Oops.
The poor woman looked terrified.
I still bought the wine.
I had left her to fill the trolley while I took a diversion to the alcohol aisles, where I found a great deal on some wine.
So I went to find my wife.... and there she was, happily putting stuff in the trolley. She had her back to me so I thought I would give her a surprise. . . I slapped her on her arse and whispered over her shoulder, " They have a great deal on wine. Let's get some, and when we get home I will do the cooking and we can have a naughty night."
The only problem was she wasn't my wife, but was someone dressed the same way. . . Oops.
The poor woman looked terrified.
I still bought the wine.
madd hatter
Super member
I did that with a daisy BB gun at 4 years old. Smashed my you're number 1 finger.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
Was going some chrony strings with my sumatra.25 in the airgun shed. I used a box stuffed with old Levi's. Well the 90 to 100 for from that rifle bore right through in just a few shots and I ended up with 3 holes in the wall.
zogg364
Member Extraordinaire
I drove down to the ranges at Bisley to shoot a comp years ago with my .308... when i got to the firing point I realised I had brought .223 ammo..
So i popped into the shop and bought some ammunition of the correct calibre.. crisis averted I unpacked my rifle only to notice I had left the bolt 250 miles away at home
So i popped into the shop and bought some ammunition of the correct calibre.. crisis averted I unpacked my rifle only to notice I had left the bolt 250 miles away at home
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Greencloud
Busy member
Not me thank christ, but my best mate was at mine for one of my kids' birthday gatherings, went to drain the main vein and walked in on my mother in law, as she was apparently just finishing her equivalent having omitted to lock the door.
Talk about scarred for life!
Talk about scarred for life!
jesim1
Member Extraordinaire
I've not really done anything of note 
I guess that's a good thing, I've fired a gun by mistake several times, it's easy with electronic Daystates, but they have never had pellets in them. I once started to dismantle a PCP and made sure it was empty of pellets and that the cylinder was depressurised - there was of course air in the reg and shit myself when it went off in my hand - oh er missus - but no harm or damage other than a gentle reminder that we all make mistakes.
I'm pretty sure the statistics for gun shot injuries say more people are shot by mistake cleaning or handling guns than in actual attacks (excluding wars etc........)
I guess that's a good thing, I've fired a gun by mistake several times, it's easy with electronic Daystates, but they have never had pellets in them. I once started to dismantle a PCP and made sure it was empty of pellets and that the cylinder was depressurised - there was of course air in the reg and shit myself when it went off in my hand - oh er missus - but no harm or damage other than a gentle reminder that we all make mistakes.
I'm pretty sure the statistics for gun shot injuries say more people are shot by mistake cleaning or handling guns than in actual attacks (excluding wars etc........)
Inca
Member Extraordinaire
The Steyr LP-10 pistol comes with 2 cylinders, changing them over one session one of them rolled off the table onto a concrete floor (covered by a small mat to try to keep my feet warm in the winter). Not a single mark on the cylinder but the needle on the pressure gauge shifted on its spindle. Now when fully charged to 200 bars the gauge reads about 40. Not a show stopper, I fill it using the bottle’s gauge but annoying non-the-less and it was easily avoidable.
Not shooting related but an incident whilst shopping in a supermarket with my wife in the days before we had kids.
I had left her to fill the trolley while I took a diversion to the alcohol aisles, where I found a great deal on some wine.
So I went to find my wife.... and there she was, happily putting stuff in the trolley. She had her back to me so I thought I would give her a surprise. . . I slapped her on her arse and whispered over her shoulder, " They have a great deal on wine. Let's get some, and when we get home I will do the cooking and we can have a naughty night."
The only problem was she wasn't my wife, but was someone dressed the same way. . . Oops.
The poor woman looked terrified.
I still bought the wine.
Many years ago, I found myself on a Friday evening, emptying items from my basket at Sainsbury’s, having gone on a mercy dash for my Wife.
Packet of Sanitary towels.
Large Galaxy bar.
Bottle of single malt.
The girl on the till looked a little bemused at these items.
So I said:
“Looks like my weekend plans are F***ed-I may as well get pi.ssed!”
Much to her credit, she saw the funny side and had tears streaming down her face, along with the middle aged women behind me in the queue.
Nowadays, that would probably put me in the cell next to yours