SAJohn said:O.K., I was practicing dry firing my revolver. Then I reloaded it and was about to put it in the nightstand when my wife asked me a question about something. After talking to her for a minute, I went back to my dry fire practice. I took aim at the bad guy in the mirror (a big expensive one) and pulled the trigger.
The next minute was spent frantically tracking the bullet path through the house. In the next room the bullet just missed a TV then passed through that room wall then across the living room and finally stopped by the couch. If it hadn't been for the wall stud and couch the bullet would have made it through the sliding glass door ($$) then across the back yard and maybe through the fence into the neighbors house.
Several lessons to be learned:
After dry firing a firearm and reloading it, immediately put it back in its' normal storage place.
Use light loads in powerful home defense weapons.
You neighbors will hear one gunshot but will not call 911 unless more are fired (probably thinking it was a car backfire).
Shooting a .44 magnum inside your house will make your wife very mad at you. She will occasionally remind you of your mistake for many many years to come.
That sounds very similar to my one AD/ND. I had been shooting a 6" 357 mag all day. I mean all day. Then I cleaned the gun and was dry firing it, even continued into my older brother's room where he was watching a rerun of Star Wars. I decided I was going to bed, so loaded the gun and then a commercial came on and he started talking to me.
We chatted for a bit and when the show came back on, I blasted Luke right between the eyes. It was a downloaded 357, about like a 38 +P as I recall, but a Keith style 168 grain SWC that went right through the tv and into a cardboard box of tools. I'm glad those tools were there. On the other side of that wall was my Dad's chest freezer. Whew! DO NOT get distracted when loading and unloading weapons.
The sound of a gun going off can be ear-splitting. I suffered no apparent hearing damage from that event, but my brother was sitting next to me when the round went off and he says his left ear is still ringing some 28 years later.
That's one of the reasons why I choose the shotgun first for HD. Hits like a brick, and is not as loud with a longer barrel and lower pressure round.
