Negligent discharge

**P89** · January 17th, 2018, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by 27hand

I have not had a ND to date and hopefully never will.

I have.
When I first started out hunting I was handed a Marlin 336, still have it.
I'm sure most of us are aware that these rifles (on the older ones) require you to drop the hammer by gently depressing the trigger to render it safe.

I was probably 13 or 14 when after spooking a deer and watching it run off I tried to drop the hammer (with a glove on) and it went bang.
Haven't had one since and hope I never do.

**Parrisk** · January 17th, 2018, 04:25 PM

While in the Army deployed to a shithole 9 out of 10 ND were caused by ... ... ... Special Ops folks.
Can you say Complacency?
If you stopped one entering a base and asked them to use the clearing barrels "We are highly trained" "We know everything there is to know about firearms" etc.. then POP

We called them Jerry's Kids because they were so special

**P89** · January 17th, 2018, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by Parrisk

We called them Jerry's Kids because they were so special

You must spread some reputation around before giving to Parrisk again

**Berncly** · January 17th, 2018, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by Parrisk

We called them Jerry's Kids because they were so special

LOL

**27hand** · January 17th, 2018, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by P89

I have.
When I first started out hunting I was handed a Marlin 336, still have it.
I'm sure most of us are aware that these rifles (on the older ones) require you to drop the hammer by gently depressing the trigger to render it safe.

I was probably 13 or 14 when after spooking a deer and watching it run off I tried to drop the hammer (with a glove on) and it went bang.
Haven't had one since and hope I never do.

The one I referred to earlier while hunting was the same 336.
I have one now and can see how that could happen with heavy gloves on

**DukeConnor** · January 17th, 2018, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by P89

I have.
When I first started out hunting I was handed a Marlin 336, still have it.
I'm sure most of us are aware that these rifles (on the older ones) require you to drop the hammer by gently depressing the trigger to render it safe.

I was probably 13 or 14 when after spooking a deer and watching it run off I tried to drop the hammer (with a glove on) and it went bang.
Haven't had one since and hope I never do.

I had the identical thing happen with a winchester. About the same age. Almost blew my foot off.

**Parrisk** · January 17th, 2018, 05:47 PM

Wife has an OLD 30/30 lever I used for hunting the very first time with her father. back at the vehicle I was unloading, muzzle in safe direction, and had an ND.. I am 100% positive I did not touch the trigger.
The whole family looked at me like I was the kid from the movie Mask. They kept saying I must have touched the trigger, I used it as a teaching moment for the step kids about watching your muzzle.

next hunting season her brother borrows it to hunt, same thing happens... then it happens to her father after her oldest boy uses it and her father is unloading it.
Now it has a pad lock through the trigger guard with a hang tag "Not safe for use" Need to get it to a good gunsmith to figure out what is up.

**gghbi** · January 17th, 2018, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by P89

I have.
When I first started out hunting I was handed a Marlin 336, still have it.
I'm sure most of us are aware that these rifles (on the older ones) require you to drop the hammer by gently depressing the trigger to render it safe.

I was probably 13 or 14 when after spooking a deer and watching it run off I tried to drop the hammer (with a glove on) and it went bang.
Haven't had one since and hope I never do.

Originally Posted by DukeConnor

I had the identical thing happen with a winchester. About the same age. Almost blew my foot off.

Originally Posted by Parrisk

Wife has an OLD 30/30 lever I used for hunting the very first time with her father. back at the vehicle I was unloading, muzzle in safe direction, and had an ND.. I am 100% positive I did not touch the trigger.
The whole family looked at me like I was the kid from the movie Mask. They kept saying I must have touched the trigger, I used it as a teaching moment for the step kids about watching your muzzle.

next hunting season her brother borrows it to hunt, same thing happens... then it happens to her father after her oldest boy uses it and her father is unloading it.
Now it has a pad lock through the trigger guard with a hang tag "Not safe for use" Need to get it to a good gunsmith to figure out what is up.

This is why after using a half cock notch to prevent ADs for about a hundred years, they decided to put in rebounding hammers, then those cross bolt safeties. Ask my wife about those and the nice buck that got away because of the cross bolt safety!

If you have a problem the half cock notch is the first thing to check.