brchixwing
Sharpshooter
Glad you were not injured! I was next to you on the firing line and thought your handgun accidentally got discharged upon holstering (now it makes way more sense). It was a weird sequence of events because he was explaining to my neighbor not to handle a weapon while he was downrange, which probably made him even more inflexible with a zero tolerance policy for the incident.
I made a mistake in the late afternoon and discharged my handgun into the berm after another drill (explained above) and he did move past it. Someone on the line cracked a joke that I wanted to get out of picking up brass which added some levity to the situation.
I made a mistake in the late afternoon and discharged my handgun into the berm after another drill (explained above) and he did move past it. Someone on the line cracked a joke that I wanted to get out of picking up brass which added some levity to the situation.
Well, that EFFIng sucked. Negligent Discharge perpetrator here. I am so pissed at myself!
I do want to give a quick AAR, mostly to serve as an example for others.
LAV is making a quick point about something while setting up the second firing line for transition drill. Note that he is making a point, we are not online yet, prepping to fire. I decide, in CLEAR Violation of safety, that I need to load my pistol at that time. That initiated an unfortunate chain of events. Even if I simply chamber a round and holster, I am still violating a safety rule. But, I have a double feed. Now I have to **** with my gun. I pull the mag and re-seat it. Another double. The safety officer tells me to holster. I heard and understood him. However, my brain is used to "drop the hammer and holster". That's not what he said, and he certainly did not ask me to lock and show clear. I am just used to hearing those commands, but this is a different environment and I was given a different command. My fault. I know Larry is downrange, not in my line of sight, but downrange none the less so I cannot point at the berm. I tell myself the safest thing to do is point at the ground before dropping the hammer. No click...bang. Even though I saw an obvious double feed, I must have told myself that those rounds fell out. One of them didn't. One of them went into the ground very close to me.
1. Every gun is always loaded.
2. Never muzzle anything you aren't willing to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off of the trigger.
4. Be sure of your target and what's beyond.
I feel like #2 saved me from having a much worse day. I shot the ground by my foot, but that is where I was pointing it. I obviously violated #1 & #3, as my gun did have a round loaded and nothing told me to touch the trigger except my own poor decision.
Anyway, embarrassed a **** & not a great way to get a reputation in INGO.
Just remember to practice safety. Don't be that guy. Which, in this scenario, is me.....