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My hunting rifle went off in the middle of the night while I was asleep, fuck me!

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So its about 1:30 and I just went to sleep a few minutes earlier and I wasnt quite alseep, kind of that inbetween stage and I hear this huge SLAM! in the apartment building, was so loud couldnt tell if it was me or the next door units. It really jolted me out of bed so I thought it was either A) neighbor slamming something against the wall B) someone kicked my door open and it slammed against the wall C) car ran into my apartment building.

I grabbed my pistol to investigate the rest of my apartment and didnt find anything awry, no car hit the apartment either. So I figured a neighbor hit the wall with something, but fuck it would have to be a baseball bat with barry bonds swinging for the amount of noise it made. So I get back in bed and after a minute I smell some sort of burnt smell, but not like gunpowder because I know what thats all about. So now Im thinking something in the building blew up and that was the noise. I check out my AC and water heater and oven and its all good but just for the hell of it I decided to open my closet door because it shares the wall with the neighbors. I open the door and there are pieces of foam and black plastic all over the place and I look at my gun case and the top end is blown apart and I think, fuck this didnt just happen. Then I look up and there is a hole in the ceiling where the bullet went and I think, I know there are people that live above me. So now I start to shit myself thinking about the 3 year old laying in bed who just took a bullet from a .270 hunting rifle or something. I throw my clothes on and grab my phone ready to dial 911 and rush up to the unit above me and start pounding on the door like a bat out of hell. It took a minute for someone to get to the door, which scared the fuck out of me of course, but finally a little college student chick answers the door fully clothed and asked what the hell was going on and the first thing out of my mouth was "Oh great, youre alive!" LOL. I told her what happened and she said she didnt even fucking hear the gun go off LOL. Then I said, youve got a hole in your floor I guarantee it. So turns out she has the same floor plan as me and I went to her closet and sre enough there was a nice hole where the trim of the wall met the floor. Turns out the bullet went into the wall vertically and didnt hit her water heater nearby or anything else. Talk about a lucky motherfucker.
Before anyone asks the gun was on safety and was secured in its hunting case. Turns out the mechanism that holds the firing pin back gave out. I think I will be having a chat with Mossberg about this tomorrow.

cliffnotes: dave has a hunting rifle that went off in his closet in the middle of the night and blew through the unit above him. no one got hurt but it was scary as fuck.
 
that's fuckin nuts

lol at the "chick answered the door fully clothed"


also, why do you keep rounds in your hunting rifle when it's stored?
 
chewyxrage said:
that's fuckin nuts

lol at the "chick answered the door fully clothed"


also, why do you keep rounds in your hunting rifle when it's stored?


Never know when you'll need to drop a rogue elk, nigga.
 
Gambino_Von_Moltke said:
damn bro, that doesn't sound right
Its what happened bor, firing pin failure or something. gotta call mossberg to rip them a new asshole.
 
that doesnt sound right..........I'm no gunsmith, but even with the rifle loaded, I still don't see how a firing pin failure could launch the spring unless the fucking thing was cocked....??? Maybe they're making guns differently now..........in which case I'll just quietly slink away like an idiot ( I did say I'm no gunsmith) but either way, holy fuck me that had to have you shitting yourself. Why was there a round chambered anyway?
 
redsamurai said:
that doesnt sound right..........I'm no gunsmith, but even with the rifle loaded, I still don't see how a firing pin failure could launch the spring unless the fucking thing was cocked....??? Maybe they're making guns differently now..........in which case I'll just quietly slink away like an idiot ( I did say I'm no gunsmith) but either way, holy fuck me that had to have you shitting yourself. Why was there a round chambered anyway?
There would have to be a round chambered for the firing pin to go off and strike the round, therefore causing it to fire off. So to answer your question yes it was loaded but with the safety on locked in a case.
 
superdave said:
There would have to be a round chambered for the firing pin to go off and strike the round, therefore causing it to fire off. So to answer your question yes it was loaded but with the safety on locked in a case.


ok, I get it now.........the round was chambered, not just loaded.......so the spring was cocked. Still, how the fuck did the safety fail? And yeah, Mossberg would be getting a piece of my ass the very next day. Didn't know they were known for rifles, but don't they make the best shotties?
 
i know it was on safety and all

not being a dick at all bro

but just wondering why it has 2 be chambered in the house

i can undersand a pisto for protection but the hunting rifle?

im seen some one accedently drop one on the stock and same thing happened
 
jon79 said:
i know it was on safety and all

not being a dick at all bro

but just wondering why it has 2 be chambered in the house

i can undersand a pisto for protection but the hunting rifle?

im seen some one accedently drop one on the stock and same thing happened
Doesnt have to, it was left that way because i went on a hunting trip and never fired the rifle, so it was loaded the whole time. Remember this thing is locked in its case with the safety on the whole time also.
 
superdave said:
Doesnt have to, it was left that way because i went on a hunting trip and never fired the rifle, so it was loaded the whole time. Remember this thing is locked in its case with the safety on the whole time also.
oh
 
superdave said:
Doesnt have to, it was left that way because i went on a hunting trip and never fired the rifle, so it was loaded the whole time. Remember this thing is locked in its case with the safety on the whole time also.
my m16 did that in basic on a night fire.....was down range thought think it was the tracer
 
I was tempted to make a parody thread titled, "My hunting bow went off in the middle of the night while I was asleep, fuck me!", but I couldn't think of any worthwhile content for such a thread.



:cow:
 
A safety is a mechanical device which can or will fail. You just learned an invaluable lesson about safe gun handling. There's no reason to leave one in the chamber, not iven in your nightstand pistol.
 
redsamurai said:
ok, I get it now.........the round was chambered, not just loaded.......so the spring was cocked. Still, how the fuck did the safety fail? And yeah, Mossberg would be getting a piece of my ass the very next day. Didn't know they were known for rifles, but don't they make the best shotties?

No they don't make the best shotguns.

Dave, you do realize you could have gotten your rifle confiscated had you been pulled over and the cop saw it loaded?

I am curious to hear mossberg's explaination and what they are going to do to remedy the situation. Never heard of that before. Seems like too much has to fail if you had the safety on as well. Do you have the Mossberg 4x4?
 
where do you live? I wanna make sure I will never be your neighbor.....thats some fucked up shit to put it mildly....
 
and think of it this way, had SD's gun shot someone above him, he may have qualified for Olbermanns' "worst person" award for the month...................i know, not funny.......but hey.... :whatever:
 
redsamurai said:

Depends on the type of shotgun. But Benelli is certainly right up there.

I prefer over/under shotguns. I have a collectors Charles Daly Field Model and am looking at some other models for sporting clays.
 
did no one phone the cops? here its illegal to keep ammunition and a fire arm in the same room. a rifle going off like that would for sure have all your other firearms seized, and posible charges.

thank god no one was hurt anyways.
 
domoljub said:
did no one phone the cops? here its illegal to keep ammunition and a fire arm in the same room. a rifle going off like that would for sure have all your other firearms seized, and posible charges.

thank god no one was hurt anyways.
Where the fuck do you live? Ive never heard of that. we are in texas bor, we got, like, freedom and shit. The only charges to be filed would be against mossberg for making a shitty defective product.
 
superdave said:
Where the fuck do you live? Ive never heard of that. we are in texas bor, we got, like, freedom and shit. The only charges to be filed would be against mossberg for making a shitty defective product.


damn, I thought u lived in NYC?
 
dead_reggin_storage_fashi said:
damn, I thought u lived in NYC?
Ive posted about how I would like to live in nyc after graduation but live in texas since 1980
 
mountain muscle said:
Depends on the type of shotgun. But Benelli is certainly right up there.

I prefer over/under shotguns. I have a collectors Charles Daly Field Model and am looking at some other models for sporting clays.


I had a buddy in college with a sweet perazzi(sp) that was like $7,000. He shot trap on the big circuit.

Cheers,
Scotsman
 
Mavafanculo said:
damm - when you speak to mossberg, ask them if theres a problem with the safety on their 12ga pistol grip

Safety failure alone wouldn't cause the gun to fire.

The sear would have to fail to allow the gun to discharge, as well as the safety failing, if he in fact had it engaged.

It is a very serious failure either way.
 
mountain muscle said:
Safety failure alone wouldn't cause the gun to fire.

The sear would have to fail to allow the gun to discharge, as well as the safety failing, if he in fact had it engaged.

It is a very serious failure either way.
Gun is definetely permanently fucked up after inspecting it. The bolt has trouble cycling and when you do, it wont dry fire at all. Guess the firing pin is stuck in the fired position and wont pull back.
 
Turns out the mechanism that holds the firing pin back gave out"

This is why I like revolvers, I've never trusted that locked and loaded with the firing pin ready to strike bullshit.
 
superdave said:
Gun is definetely permanently fucked up after inspecting it. The bolt has trouble cycling and when you do, it wont dry fire at all. Guess the firing pin is stuck in the fired position and wont pull back.

I bet your sear broke and the piece is jammed. I am no expert though. Can you remove the bolt?
 
mountain muscle said:
I bet your sear broke and the piece is jammed. I am no expert though. Can you remove the bolt?
yea but i dont know what to look for
 
superdave said:
Where the fuck do you live? Ive never heard of that. we are in texas bor, we got, like, freedom and shit. The only charges to be filed would be against mossberg for making a shitty defective product.

lol, live in canada. how easy is it to buy a firearm there?
 
domoljub said:
lol, live in canada. how easy is it to buy a firearm there?
5 minutes anything you want except for full auto assault rifles. ammo too
 
mountain muscle said:
I bet your sear broke and the piece is jammed. I am no expert though. Can you remove the bolt?
Ok here a a couple pics, but suck because its my phone:
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k5/superdave1010101993/img007.jpg
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k5/superdave1010101993/img008.jpg

First pic: the thin piece on the right inserts into the middle of the bolt on the left, however the small black tip of the small silver piece is actually a threaded piece that looke like a screw of some sort that snapped. Also the dark part on the right of the handle of the bolt looks to be bent or damaged and I think thats what causes the bolt to have trouble cycling into place.
Second pic: is a close up of the tip of the smaller piece with the black threaded part that broke (shitty pic sorry).

This stuff is fucked up and Im going to need a whole new bolt I bet.
 
superdave said:
Ok here a a couple pics, but suck because its my phone:
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k5/superdave1010101993/img007.jpg
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k5/superdave1010101993/img008.jpg

First pic: the thin piece on the right inserts into the middle of the bolt on the left, however the small black tip of the small silver piece is actually a threaded piece that looke like a screw of some sort that snapped. Also the dark part on the right of the handle of the bolt looks to be bent or damaged and I think thats what causes the bolt to have trouble cycling into place.
Second pic: is a close up of the tip of the smaller piece with the black threaded part that broke (shitty pic sorry).

This stuff is fucked up and Im going to need a whole new bolt I bet.

Hard to see that second pic, but it looks like your firing pin broke off the striker assembly?

That still doesn't account for the discharge to me though.

I would say absolutely replace the bolt, If I were you I would talk to Mossberg and get a brand new rifle. I would bet they will offer you one after they hear of what happened.
 
mountain muscle said:
Hard to see that second pic, but it looks like your firing pin broke off the striker assembly?

That still doesn't account for the discharge to me though.

I would say absolutely replace the bolt, If I were you I would talk to Mossberg and get a brand new rifle. I would bet they will offer you one after they hear of what happened.
Im going to raise some hell and see what I can get.
 
All I'll say is I always keep a gun loaded for work, but I never store firearms loaded. Not because of the chance of a accidental discharge, but to prevent spring fatigue.
 
mountain muscle said:
Take it to a gunsmith tomorrow and let him evaluate it first. Take pictures of every part and piece you can then call, from the smith's shop.


I agree...will add a whole lotta credibility when you call.

Given what happened, they should be content to 'settle' with you by giving you a whole new super-deluxe best they make kinda rifle in exchange for your agreeing not to sue them or publicize the incident.
 
superdave said:
So its about 1:30 and I just went to sleep a few minutes earlier and I wasnt quite alseep, kind of that inbetween stage and I hear this huge SLAM! in the apartment building, was so loud couldnt tell if it was me or the next door units. It really jolted me out of bed so I thought it was either A) neighbor slamming something against the wall B) someone kicked my door open and it slammed against the wall C) car ran into my apartment building.

I grabbed my pistol to investigate the rest of my apartment and didnt find anything awry, no car hit the apartment either. So I figured a neighbor hit the wall with something, but fuck it would have to be a baseball bat with barry bonds swinging for the amount of noise it made. So I get back in bed and after a minute I smell some sort of burnt smell, but not like gunpowder because I know what thats all about. So now Im thinking something in the building blew up and that was the noise. I check out my AC and water heater and oven and its all good but just for the hell of it I decided to open my closet door because it shares the wall with the neighbors. I open the door and there are pieces of foam and black plastic all over the place and I look at my gun case and the top end is blown apart and I think, fuck this didnt just happen. Then I look up and there is a hole in the ceiling where the bullet went and I think, I know there are people that live above me. So now I start to shit myself thinking about the 3 year old laying in bed who just took a bullet from a .270 hunting rifle or something. I throw my clothes on and grab my phone ready to dial 911 and rush up to the unit above me and start pounding on the door like a bat out of hell. It took a minute for someone to get to the door, which scared the fuck out of me of course, but finally a little college student chick answers the door fully clothed and asked what the hell was going on and the first thing out of my mouth was "Oh great, youre alive!" LOL. I told her what happened and she said she didnt even fucking hear the gun go off LOL. Then I said, youve got a hole in your floor I guarantee it. So turns out she has the same floor plan as me and I went to her closet and sre enough there was a nice hole where the trim of the wall met the floor. Turns out the bullet went into the wall vertically and didnt hit her water heater nearby or anything else. Talk about a lucky motherfucker.
Before anyone asks the gun was on safety and was secured in its hunting case. Turns out the mechanism that holds the firing pin back gave out. I think I will be having a chat with Mossberg about this tomorrow.

cliffnotes: dave has a hunting rifle that went off in his closet in the middle of the night and blew through the unit above him. no one got hurt but it was scary as fuck.

I'm not going to read 6 pages, prolly already been posted, BUT, why would you have one in the tube? Most of the time you try NOT to shoot somebody and the sound of chambering a round is all it takes to get them the hell outa there, if you need a round, click click and it's there...
Tx
 
txbondsman said:
I'm not going to read 6 pages, prolly already been posted, BUT, why would you have one in the tube? Most of the time you try NOT to shoot somebody and the sound of chambering a round is all it takes to get them the hell outa there, if you need a round, click click and it's there...
Tx
Wasnt one in the tube for the purpose of self defense, ive got my glock for that. I went on a hunting trip and never fired the gun so when it was put back in the case it was still chambered.
 
superdave said:
Wasnt one in the tube for the purpose of self defense, ive got my glock for that. I went on a hunting trip and never fired the gun so when it was put back in the case it was still chambered.

well, what's the chance of you forgetting to check your firearm again.... LOL
 
txbondsman said:
well, what's the chance of you forgetting to check your firearm again.... LOL
Check it for what, who cares if it was chambered. The gun went off in its secured case with the safety on so Im failing to see how any of it is my fault. Called Mossberg and they were quite surprised so they are sending me a postage paid shipping box for everything to go back to them. If leaving a round in a hunting rifle were the cause of this sort of thing I would imagine it happens hundreds of thousands of times each year in the US. But it doesnt, so that = product defect.
 
superdave said:
Check it for what, who cares if it was chambered. The gun went off in its secured case with the safety on so Im failing to see how any of it is my fault. Called Mossberg and they were quite surprised so they are sending me a postage paid shipping box for everything to go back to them. If leaving a round in a hunting rifle were the cause of this sort of thing I would imagine it happens hundreds of thousands of times each year in the US. But it doesnt, so that = product defect.

because of accidents, this one included. I don't know anybody else who leaves hunting rifles loaded with one in the chamber while transporting or for that matter anytime else. Your right, it was the guns fault, it malfunctioned, but my point is that common sense tells you to unload any weapon not going to be used, guns for protection are the exclusion. You just said that you had a weapon for that and it wasn't the 270.
It's your deal bro, just glad nothing happened...
Tx

What wigs me out is, what if you were hunting w/ some friends and the damn thing went off and hurt someone or worse. It's really a good thing that it happened like it did...
 
txbondsman said:
because of accidents, this one included. I don't know anybody else who leaves hunting rifles loaded with one in the chamber while transporting or for that matter anytime else. Your right, it was the guns fault, it malfunctioned, but my point is that common sense tells you to unload any weapon not going to be used, guns for protection are the exclusion. You just said that you had a weapon for that and it wasn't the 270.
It's your deal bro, just glad nothing happened...
Tx

What wigs me out is, what if you were hunting w/ some friends and the damn thing went off and hurt someone or worse. It's really a good thing that it happened like it did...
Lets assume that happened. If Im sitting in a deer blind and I load one in the chamber and 5 minutes pass and I decide I want to open a soft drink or something so I lean the rifle upright in the corner then it suddenly goes bang, am I still culpable because I left on in the chamber? So where do you draw the line for the accident to not be attributed to "shouldnt have had one in the chamber"? 5 minutes after chambered while in a deer blind or a few days later sitting in my closet in a gun case?
 
superdave said:
Lets assume that happened. If Im sitting in a deer blind and I load one in the chamber and 5 minutes pass and I decide I want to open a soft drink or something so I lean the rifle upright in the corner then it suddenly goes bang, am I still culpable because I left on in the chamber? So where do you draw the line for the accident to not be attributed to "shouldnt have had one in the chamber"? 5 minutes after chambered while in a deer blind or a few days later sitting in my closet in a gun case?


Not saying the gun isn't a POS for failing, or that they owe you. They should own up and make it right.
But I do agree that had the round been pulled from the chamber your neighbor chick would be sleeping better at night. That gun was going to fail in that manner sooner or later. Thank God nobody's bleeding!
 
superdave said:
Lets assume that happened. If Im sitting in a deer blind and I load one in the chamber and 5 minutes pass and I decide I want to open a soft drink or something so I lean the rifle upright in the corner then it suddenly goes bang, am I still culpable because I left on in the chamber? So where do you draw the line for the accident to not be attributed to "shouldnt have had one in the chamber"? 5 minutes after chambered while in a deer blind or a few days later sitting in my closet in a gun case?

the last sentence in my post is just what this says, I'm glad this happened like it did, it could have been alot worse if it had happened when you do need to have one chambered, like when hunting, read my last sentence, it says just that.

( somebody show me how to "cut" pieces out of a previous post, please! I see many of yall doin it when you just want to repost just a particuliar line. help a brotha out)
 
mountain muscle said:
So, What did you find out Dave?
mossberg is going to ship me a postage paid package to ship the gun and case and anything else related back to them for evaluation. I will keep you robs posted.
 
therockrt72 said:
the thing is why do you have a bullet in the chamber of a gun sitting in your closet?
irrevelant. thats like having my parking brake go out on my car and then you asking "why was your car parked so long". This ia a name brand new firearm and as such should have no problem sitting around chambered with the safety on.
 
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