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BryanP

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I'm awake!
« on: December 23, 2009, 08:44:01 AM »
These days my nightstand gun is also my CCW. So the S&W 649 sits on my nightstand in the same Desantis Nemesis pocket holster I use to tote it around. (I tote a PM9 sometimes too, but the the 649 is what I usually grab)

I can't carry to work, so this morning as most mornings I picked it up to put it in the safe. I wasn't quite awake and it slipped out of the holster and bounced off of the wood floor. In doing so I swear it looked like that scene out of True Lies where Jamie Lee Curtis drops a SMG that bounces around shooting bad guys. It described a nice curling arc when it bounced, and somehow it kept pointing at me more than not.

Yes, I know a modern gun won't go off from being dropped unless there is something mechanically wrong with it. All I can say is I went from half-asleep to fully awake VERY quickly.   :O
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« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2009, 09:07:18 AM »
OMG, you didn't ding the gun did you?  :O

I did that very first day with the Hi Power. Just plain old dropped it on the ceramic tile floor and dinged it. Yay!! Good thing it didn't crack the tile though cause Mrs 280 woulda had my ***!!   ;)
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« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2009, 09:18:38 AM »
The first blemish I put on my Springfield TRP 1911 ended up being liberating. Scratches and marks that occurred after that weren't nearly as painful.

Now years later looking at it...it looks well used. Tens of thousands of rounds and thousands of draws from the holster will do that to a gun:)
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Re: I'm awake!
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2009, 09:36:10 AM »
Quote from: 280plus on December 23, 2009, 09:07:18 AM
OMG, you didn't ding the gun did you?  :O

No, but I suppose it was a good thing I hadn't put on underwear yet.   :laugh:

It's a stainless steel revolver.  I was more worried about damaging the wood floor.  Strike that, I was more worried about some hidden flaw in the 649 causing it to go off.
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Re: I'm awake!
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2009, 10:01:11 AM »
Bryan:

Did you at least have sense (awareness) enough not to try catching it? That's how people and things get shot.

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« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2009, 10:27:20 AM »
I don't remember consciously thinking about it at the time, but no, I made no attempt to catch it.  I was too busy backing away.
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Re: I'm awake!
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2009, 10:38:25 AM »
If you're going to drop a gun, make sure you do it on cement. If you need to ask me how I know that...
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« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2009, 10:45:17 AM »
Quote from: Standing Wolf on December 23, 2009, 10:38:25 AM
If you're going to drop a gun, make sure you do it on cement. If you need to ask me how I know that...

Okay.  How do you know that?
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Re: I'm awake!
« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2009, 11:46:23 AM »
...because I still have the slide dings where my Para P-13 bounced after falling out of the %&*^%$%*^$ Uncle Mike's shoulder holster.  :O

(In case SW didn't feel like fessin' up.)
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« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2009, 03:15:53 PM »
Never forget the guy who shot the toilet because his gun fell out when he pulled his pants down.  ;)
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Re: I'm awake!
« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2009, 03:36:48 PM »
Quote from: 280plus on December 23, 2009, 03:15:53 PM
Never forget the guy who shot the toilet because his gun fell out when he pulled his pants down.  ;)

That brings a whole new dimension to "accidental discharge" ...  :laugh:
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« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2009, 05:53:25 PM »
Oh yea, it was a close call for the "boys" from what I remember. I think he picked up some porcelain shrapnel.  :O
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