BMassBMore
Active Member
When I was young and stupid, I kept a loaded S&W Model 19 Combat Magnum in my glove compartment. I thought I knew how to close the cylinder with only 5 rounds loaded in such a way that the first trigger pull would drop on an empty chamber. Yeah, this was my idea of "safety". I also thought it would be cool to show off to some coworkers how nothing would happen even if I pulled the trigger. Although I was stupid enough to pull the trigger on a loaded .357 while sitting in the driver's seat of my truck in a crowded parking garage, I was (thankfully) smart enough to keep it pointed in a (relatively) safe direction. I closed the cylinder just like I'd practiced at the range, opened the driver's side door and aimed down at the concrete floor of the parking garage, pulled the trigger and BOOM. Man, a .357 is really REALLY loud with no hearing protection and sitting in a car. My ears rang for several minutes. One friend had some minor bleeding in the lower leg from some bits of concrete shrapnel. We found the round embedded in the underside of another friend's car 20 feet away. Yeah, young and very stupid. It was a very powerful way to learn a lesson though, and lucky for me I didn't have to pay too steep a price to learn it either.