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Rothrandir said:
i've heard of keeping your guns away from your kids, but to keep them away from your dogs? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif
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Many years ago, I was hunting with my grandfather. He was born in 1897, and I was blessed to be able to spend a lot of time with him, but he was definitely from a different time frame, and his ideas about gun safety left a lot to be desired.
We had just arrived at our hunting spot, a small canal on the property that he owned that had many geese and ducks. He took his shotgun (a beautiful 12 gauge Belgian Browning over and Under) out of my Wagoneer, and rested it, standing up along the right front fender. Carl, a friend of ours, just walked past his gun, a couple of feet away, and at the same time, the gun, that had been rather carelessly set against the car fell over and discharged, and just missed Carl!!! My grandfather had his loaded 12 gauge in the car for the 45 minute drive to our hunting spot, and probably it had been loaded in his house when we picked him up. I was shocked, and so thankfull that Carl wasn't hurt!
My father, who taught my firearms safety at a very early age, also was very upset when I told him later.
Another incident that happened with my grandfather, was after he and my grandmother had been out at the same property, and he had his shotgun in his pickup. Now this property was in a rural area, but my grandparents lived near the center of Denver, so his carrying his loaded shotgun into Denver was not a good idea. Anyway, upon their return home after visiting the property, when my grandmother was getting out of the truck, the button of her coat caught on the trigger of the 12 gauge and caused the gun to fire. Lucky for her the barrel was pointing towards the floor of the truck when it discharged. Imagine the sound of a 12 gauge shotgun firing in the cab of a truck, inside a garage!!! The discharge made a hole through the floorboard, bounced up from the concrete garage floor, hit a refrigerator and shop vac in the garage, and flattened the right front tire!!!!
I am so thankful to my father that even though I was raised with many firearms around, he taught me the proper, responsible way to handle firearms at an early age. After he heard about our hunting incident, my dad also told me to ALWAYS check my grandfathers guns whenever he had them out.