Always check the chamber . . .

. . . it helps prevent accidents.

Like the one that resulted in a call tonight from my son-in-law that ended up with me going over to his house to look at the holes in the wall from the 30-06 round that his neighbor put through the shared dining room wall . . . that traveled through the kitchen and penetrated the wall above the cupboards . . . then passed through the bedroom closet . . . before bouncing off the ceiling of my granddaughter's bedroom and coming to rest in the opposite wall above her bed.

Some broken glass but no one was hurt as no one was in any of the rooms in question.  Good thing the daughter wasn't home as she probably would have freaked.  Took the granddaughter with the wife and I to go visit other relatives.  (Figured I'd keep her out of dad's way while he cleaned up; plus, thinking about the bullet going through her room--even if it was near the ceiling--was getting me agitated to the point where being in the same place with the careless gun owner was probably a bad idea*.)

Daughter was home when we brought the granddaughter back--I was right, she was freaked.**

Everyone who wants to argue about gun control can do so now but keep in mind if this had been a pistol it probably never would have made it into the kid's place.***

/relieved venting.

*To give the man credit there were no excuses, only apologies; and he was already on the phone with the police when he came knocking at the kid's door.

**She did not appreciate my pointing out that the collector's glass the bullet shattered was a real "shot" glass now.

***Which they rent from me so, to keep things in the family, I will just hire the son-in-law for the patching and bill the neighbors.

Kayback wrote: I'd put in a call to the cops against said neighbour.

That would have been step 1 for me, zero question.

Wow, man. Where have you been? Stick around for a bit. I miss conspiring to build Angel powered Tippmanns with you, bud.

(I'm DeTrevni, BTW.)


Edited by Magoo - 18 October 2010 at 3:21am

Magoo wrote: Wow, man. Where have you been? Stick around for a bit. I miss conspiring to build Angel powered Tippmanns with you, bud. (I'm DeTrevni, BTW.)

I'm BOS on PBN, so I need to crash somewhere.

Now, where the hell is the Flipmann?

Mack wrote: First thing the neighbor did was call them on himself.  They were there when I got there.

But sometimes pressing charges is up to the "victim".

That we will have to wait and see what happens on.  The fact is that due to privacy issues we may never know the final outcome.

As an interested party you should be privy to the outcome. And aren't court proceedings public information?

KBK

Glad everyone is safe Mack. It amazes me how careless people are sometimes. I realize there are accidents, but something like this is ridiculous. Probably not your first question to the guy, but was it a case of him having a loaded gun in the house intentionally or forgetting to clear the chamber before putting  it away? Either shows total stupidity IMO. I don't own a gun, but growing up, my dad taught me the first thing you do when you are handed a firearm is to check to see if it loaded or not before you go anywhere near the trigger. I was familiar with both his service revolver and shotgun and as a matter of habit would check them immediately when he handed them to me. And I was maybe 10 or 11. Can't believe a grown man would be so reckless.  

Mack wrote: ^^^ New gun, didn't check the chamber after unloading.

 How long did it take him to get the gun out of his arse after your conversation with him?  

I can honestly say I had no idea a .30-06 had anywhere near that kind of penetrating power. 

agentwhale007 wrote: I can honestly say I had no idea a .30-06 had anywhere near that kind of penetrating power.

It's a pretty powerful round. .30-06 and 7.62x54r are just about the same in terms of stopping power.

Ceesman762 wrote: 30-06 ( as my example the new American Eagle 30-06 for the M1 Garand) will go through .375"/10mm mild steel plate at 100 yards like it was butter.

I was basing it on the completely unscientific fact that when shooting at a big oak tree that is about 4' in diameter with a Remington 700, it doesn't come out the other end.

Again, completely unscientific.