ORIGINAL: okcmco
But I got the scare of my life along with feeling like an ass.....and no one was hurt. This lesson has stuck with me more than any mantra from Jeff Cooper. And no one was hurt. I am glad you were not hurt, either. And you will never forget the lesson.
This is a very true statement.
Anyone who has ever read any Robert Ruark at length probably remembers him writing of how his grandpa taught him how to shoot quail and how to be safe with firearms. And espeically about how is grandpa told him not to take the safety off until after the birds got up, and as he was shouldering the gun. Then his grandad told him to give it a try on a pinecone dry, and not knowing his grandad had reloaded the gun, he pulled up on that pinecone thinking he was dry firing. BOOM! And as he wrote that at the age of 50, he said that he NEVER EVER had forgotten how bad that scared him.