shward 0 #1 March 7, 2011 Years ago, my boarding team was at the range doing some practice with the M9. We have a new guys that was trying to "push" the rounds out and was consistently hitting the deck about ten feet in front of him. Now mind you, we were on the flight deck of a ship and he was shooting a steel, non-skid deck. No telling where those rounds might have deflected to. Needless to say that the rest of the team was hiding behind a bulkhead and the range master that was trying to help him was sweating bullets and shaking. Afterwards, we all agreed that if we ever got into a fire-fight, he would be the very 1st "casualty". At another duty station, I was overseeing the weapons turn over for the quarterdeck watch and had a brand new Ensign as the off-going Officer of the Deck. The boot Ensign had to present a clear and safe weapon for turnover. He knew that he had to remove the round in the chamber, so he pulled the slide back and ejected that round, but then noticed that he had failed to remove the magazine and would chamber another round when he released the slide. To prevent this, he chose to put his finger in the well and push the round down into the magazine then release the slide. I almost pissed myself laughing when he turned around and asked for help in removing his, now stuck, finger from the slide. He got his weapons qual pulled as soon as I could stop laughing and go talk to the armory. What are some of the stories that you guys have witnessed. I'd be interested to hear, plus they might have some training value for some of my junior guys that have never handled a weapon.Life is short, eat more bacon, have more sex and jump anytime you can!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nigel99 466 #2 March 7, 2011 A friends dad had just bought a new 308 and was showing it around to his mates. My friend was told to take it and put it back in the gun safe - on the way back to the safe he pulled the trigger... He discovered that a 308 round makes quite a big hole in a brick wall at a 1 foot range. Luckily no one was injured.Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimjumper 25 #3 March 8, 2011 When I was young, (long time ago), me and a friend camped out next to a large pond on his parents property. It was at the base of 3 hills so everything was backstopped. We walked our way around the pond shooting at snakes and turtles that had taken over the pond. When we got back to our camp, we realized that due to the bullets skipping off the water we had shot a number of rounds thru our tents! We were lucky that we didn't hit the tractor we had used as transportation to our camping spot. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 219 #4 March 8, 2011 Quote We walked our way around the pond shooting at snakes and turtles that had taken over the pond. I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
