Fortunately the CZ 82 has that "safety block" so that the hammer can't contact the firing pin unless the trigger is fully pulled back (I know - never say never, but...). I remember when I first bought my CZ 82 and got it home and saw that the hammer wasn't contacting the firing pin. I thought to myself, "This gun is junk! There's no way it will fire like this!" and almost took it back to the LGS where I bought it. Fortunately I did a little experiment, and slipped a small piece of paper between the hammer and the firing pin and dry-fired. Seeing the impression left in the paper, I did a little googling and found out that that's the way it's supposed to work. Saved me the embarrassment of taking it back to the shop and being told I was an idiot!I was walking across the living room taking my CZ 82 out of its IWB to put it on the end table. It seemed to go in slow motion as I realized it was slipping out of my hand. I must have touched it two or three times on the way down. It was loaded hammer down on a loaded chamber. The pucker factor was quite high during those slow mo seconds. No damage except an accelerated heart rate and momentary self-loathing for stupidity.
Fortunately the CZ 82 has that "safety block" so that the hammer can't contact the firing pin unless the trigger is fully pulled back (I know - never say never, but...). I remember when I first bought my CZ 82 and got it home and saw that the hammer wasn't contacting the firing pin. I thought to myself, "This gun is junk! There's no way it will fire like this!" and almost took it back to the LGS where I bought it. Fortunately I did a little experiment, and slipped a small piece of paper between the hammer and the firing pin and dry-fired. Seeing the impression left in the paper, I did a little googling and found out that that's the way it's supposed to work. Saved me the embarrassment of taking it back to the shop and being told I was an idiot!
Nope. I haven't.
But I have a friend that did. Pro tip: If you drop a gun, fight the natural inclination to try and catch it.
Seriously.
You are very lucky.I must have touched it two or three times on the way down.
Where people get in trouble is when they try to catch them because inevitably a finger goes in the trigger guard. Let dropping guns fall.
The pucker factor was quite high during those slow mo seconds. No damage except an accelerated heart rate and momentary self-loathing for stupidity.
The gunsmith was trying to explain to me what he was looking for during his test while we were on the range. In the midst of him doing so he lost his grip and it dropped to the floor in slow motion (one in the chamber). It bounced by my feet but didn't go off. It was hard to slow my heart rate the rest of the day. No ND, thank you God...and Glock!
You are very lucky.
The reflex upon a catch/grab is to curl your fingers when you grasp at something... if you latched on to it "mid-drop", you'd have quite possibly boogerhooked the bang switch.
So you know, it is impossible to make a Glock (or most modern handguns) discharge without pulling the trigger...perhaps by throwing it in a fire.
Not me, but a funny story.
My buddy always packs.
We had gone to the lumber yard and he was way up on the rack sorting through 2X4s when the yard guy came by on the fork truck asking if we needed him to get a pallet of wood down.
Just then, Stan's 1911 decided to come out of his holster and bounce off the wood, Stan yelled an expletive, thw pistol continued down and bounced off the forks and smacked into the ground.
The yard guy peeled out of there on the fork truck. I guess we were lucky it didnt go off since it was a series 70.
Johnny C