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Cocked&Locked

Cocked&Locked

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So we're out for the normal tuesday night IDPA practice and one of the usual suspects turns with a long face to inquire if anyone else has sig 226 mags along, he packed his guns and ammo, left the mags at home. This is something i've done myself and it's frustrating after you drive 45 minutes to get to the range to go home again because you can't shoot. Luck is with him though, as i've got two friends along that i'm teaching, and i've brought 5 different rigs with pouches mags and holsters, so i offer him my P7M13 for the night. He is now singing the song of the happy shooter. :D I know this fella has a PSP at home, so i don't bother giving him the rundown once he says he comforatable with it.

So we're all shooting on the range, doing drills with target changes and reloads, when something goes shooting up the range beside me, bout the size of a mars bar and black. I assume that another of our friends has came in late and tossed something down range for a joke. I turn to see who it is, but as i do, i see my friend standing beside me on the line, look of shock and terror on his face, and the frame of the P7 in his hand, the recoil spring sadly swaying in the breeze. Seems he racked the slide in a reload and managed to hit the take down button, lifted a bit and when he released the slide, it fired up the range. I turn back up range in time to see my slide bounce to a halt about 7 yards up. :runaway: Turning back to my friend, he's gibbering,,,,and the looks of embaresment, chagrin and remorse on his face are too much. I start laughing...:D. Oh well, its a gun right? the slide is a solid block of steel, worst case is it's scuffed, and he's a good friend and a good shooter.

On recoving the slide, no marks, H&K makes a good durable finish it seems, so alls well that ends well, but i'd have giving a lot to have had a camera to snap the expression on his face as I turned to him. :D Plus, now i have a story to harras him with for the rest of his natural life!:D:D
 
Cocked&Locked said:
there's only 2 ways it could have been better

1) the slide should have hit the target

and 2) is should have been someone else's P7

:D
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It could be someone elses! ;) Its damaged goods now, but ill take it off your hands......for a discount rate :D

haha great story tho, im sure your friend wont hear the end of it for a while :p
 
[/QUOTE] :D Plus, now i have a story to harass him with for the rest of his natural life!:D:D[/QUOTE]

This is very important - stories like that are precious. I have wonderful memories of a crisp morning when my radio comes alive after a far off shot. A first time shooter up a tree stand babbling a story that does not match with the tracks that go almost under his tree stand. When his gun went off, the deer's ears must have been ringing - 'cause it vacated the country in a straight line - through thickets and over brush piles and it never even shorted it's stride - the tracks were like fifteen feet apart in a straight line for the half mile that I tracked it - and not one drop of blood in the new-fallen snow - a clear miss.

Those little stories are what we keep as equalizers at the shack - priceless.
 
Had one fellow at the range a year or so back was shooting his 586/686, can't remember which one, & the barrel fell off the frame. Seemed his cousin abused it & tore the threads out. Was funny as he!!... tried to keep shooting even after the barrel fell off but couldn't see the front sight.
 
LOL, I saw the same thing once with a remington 870 barrel :D
Just dangled off the edge and "clunked" to the ground. Scarred.
 
I had a good laugh.

But I cannot understand how a gun can dismantle itself while shooting!!! Regardless of who is shooting it.

That will not be funny when you need your gun to protect yourself (yeah I know we are supposed to allow home invaders to kick down our doors, tie up all the males and rape the women before torturing and killing us all).

What then?

The P7 is crossed of my list, no disrespect for P7 owners.
 
easyrider604 said:
I had a good laugh.

But I cannot understand how a gun can dismantle itself while shooting!!! Regardless of who is shooting it.

That will not be funny when you need your gun to protect yourself (yeah I know we are supposed to allow home invaders to kick down our doors, tie up all the males and rape the women before torturing and killing us all).

What then?

The P7 is crossed of my list, no disrespect for P7 owners.
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Its tricky to do unless you have big mits. On the left side of the frame just below the slide is a button. You have to depress it, retract the slide back and lift up. The slide will then run ahead off the frame. I've seen it happen twice in 4 years. Never had it myself, but i haven't shot it as much.
 
easyrider604 said:
I had a good laugh.

But I cannot understand how a gun can dismantle itself while shooting!!! Regardless of who is shooting it.

That will not be funny when you need your gun to protect yourself (yeah I know we are supposed to allow home invaders to kick down our doors, tie up all the males and rape the women before torturing and killing us all).

What then?

The P7 is crossed of my list, no disrespect for P7 owners.
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And the odds of that happening to a P 7 owner who might have access to his P 7 are....?

Take Care

Bob
ps Great story.
 
Cocked&Locked said:
Its tricky to do unless you have big mits. On the left side of the frame just below the slide is a button. You have to depress it, retract the slide back and lift up. The slide will then run ahead off the frame. I've seen it happen twice in 4 years. Never had it myself, but i haven't shot it as much.
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Your explanation above, to me, speaks of poor design. It should never ever happen. Have you thought of returning it to the factory for repair? Sounds like there is something not right.

Let's see if anybody can make a 1911 slide fly. Or a Sig 226, or countless other semis. In many if not all pistols, the slide needs to be in one specific position relative to the frame in order for the lock to be pressed or twisted, or tickled or turned 90 degrees whatever.

Semi-autos may jam or fail to fire for some reason, yes. Or a car that can park itself. I accept things like those. If you've seen it happen twice in 4 years, that is two too many. A pistol that self-dismantles is funny for sure, until you have to rely on it to preserve the most precious things in life.
 
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