Dan wrote:
On Mar 25, 12:57 pm, Gig 601XL Builder
wrote:

Thinking of ADs does remind me of another onethat happened in the hotel
at the USPSA Nationals several years ago.

A competitor was practicing mag changes in his room and letting the
dropped mags fall to the bed. He said he had been doing it for about
five minutes when BANG. A .38 Super sound fired and went through the
wall over his bed, and the next room's bed and the next and the next and
the next. If I remember correctly five rooms were involved and the
bullet finally lodged in a wall and was recovered.

To clarify --- careful (i.e. well trained) shooters practice "dry
fire" exercises all the time.

A cardinal rule is to always practice in one place (room, range,
field, etc), while all ammunition is in another.

An even better technique is to use practice mags, colored pink or
orange.


Dan Mc

I couldn't agree more. The story above happened before the first day of
competition so he probably had driven all the way from where ever he
lived to Quincy with the round in the chamber and didn't know it.

This guy wasn't a hack though. He was an experienced either Master or A
class shooter.