Safety

This isn't really "off topic", in fact, it ought to to be absolutely central to all that we do when handeling firearms.
I am absolutely mortified to admit that I recently violated the most fundamental safety rule in handeling a firearm . . . namely that every gun is loaded until you check it personally and determine beyond any question that it is in fact unloaded.
Last Monday night I inadvertantly discharged my Ruger GP-100 .367 Magnum in my bedroom closet! I had forgotten that it was my 'home defense' gun and had 5 cartridges in the cylinder. I had been to the range a couple of days before and didn't take the pistol with me. I was returning the gun to a four pistol case and for reasons that I will never understand, 'dry fired' the gun. With ringing ears, singed hair and a single singed eyebrow, I realized how very very close I had come to becoming just another horibble statistic.
I have been involved with firearms and safely handled them all of my adult life and a good portion of my youth. I had never experienced an inadvertant discharge before. I thought I was too experienced to make such a stupid mistake . . . I thought that I was "bullet proof"! Well . . . not o much!
I wanted to relay this so that others would tighten thier procedures and not share my embarrasment . . . or worse. Be safe out there,folks, and enjoy a great hobbie!

Mother Nature is a stern teacher who eventually kills all of her students.

you know I never even noticed the errors until you pointed them out. other than that glad to hear your still alive and kickin.

Thanks, guys. I feel incredibly stupid and incredibly lucky and didn't want anyone else to go through the experience. Not a whole lot of fun.

Mother Nature is a stern teacher who eventually kills all of her students.

cogito69,
I have only been on this site for a couple of weeks and when I just read your incident with your 357 I was taken aback quickly because I use a Ruger GP100 as my home defense pistol also, and I have almost done the same thing. This pistol to those who are into semi automatics and not revolvers does not have a safety on it, so, in order to find out if it is loaded you have to flip the cylinder open and check it. Like cogito69 I occaionally dry fire this weapon to make sure all is in good working order. I also thank cogito69 for his honesty, as it may save one of us a fatal incident. Way to may folks would never admit to an error like this espesially if you are an old time shooter. But, an incident like this is so important for people to read and head, because, any weapon with the velocity of a 357 blast, only takes one to become dead, no second chances. Cogito69 hit it right on the head, that the first order for checking your guns, whether semi auto's or revolvers is to see if anything is in the chamber on semi auto's and in the cylinder on a revolver. Thanks again cogito69, and like flyboy, I didn't notice the spelling errors until it was broght to my attention, but, I was more interested in the subject matter than grammer and spelling. As an old Air Force vet, spelling was never my strong suit anyway as some one may see from my response.

life gives u experiences .PROUD 2 B HINDU

You're not the 1st & wont be the last. I've been guilty of negligent discharge as well. A 22lr through the ceiling, to add insult to injury it was raining at the time (hard) and I had to go up and patch the roof.
I learned my lesson....I hope.

As long as you learned from it, ever one makes mistakes, i put a .45 slug through my bed with my Kimber. Haha, that was a bad night lol. But i will never do it again.