I made a super huge mistake to night. A few actually. Lucky no one was injured.
After shooting at my deer. Which i posted about previously. I hung my AR up on the hook behind me. I was pretty sure I flipped the safety back on. But either I didn't complete the action all the way, or I didn't do it in the adrenaline rush. I lower my pack, and take my gun back off the hook, and go to un load it. Drop the magazine out and then rack out the next bullet that was loaded in. Well.. apparently i did not click the safety on. My finger slipped when pushing the magazine release and I pulled the trigger. The barrel was pointed out and not down at the ground. Lucky it was pointed towards the row of trees on the other side of the field, which had more trees behind it. If I would have pointed it more one way or the other, it could have been headed for one of the houses down there. I made multiple mistakes. I got very lucky. Please make sure your safety is on and pointed in a safe direction when you un load. Lucky my kids were not with me. I was thinking about that deer and after watching it run off my mind was racing. I lost some focus on what I was doing. After 28 years of hunting with a fire arm, I never did anything like this. This was my first season with an AR frame. Im gonna definitely re evaluate the whole thing. I may be only putting one round in at a time going forward. It scared the crap out of me. I went thru hunter safety with my daughter this summer. So it was all fresh in my mind. But I still had an oops..
Please please be careful. Don't be like me.
After shooting at my deer. Which i posted about previously. I hung my AR up on the hook behind me. I was pretty sure I flipped the safety back on. But either I didn't complete the action all the way, or I didn't do it in the adrenaline rush. I lower my pack, and take my gun back off the hook, and go to un load it. Drop the magazine out and then rack out the next bullet that was loaded in. Well.. apparently i did not click the safety on. My finger slipped when pushing the magazine release and I pulled the trigger. The barrel was pointed out and not down at the ground. Lucky it was pointed towards the row of trees on the other side of the field, which had more trees behind it. If I would have pointed it more one way or the other, it could have been headed for one of the houses down there. I made multiple mistakes. I got very lucky. Please make sure your safety is on and pointed in a safe direction when you un load. Lucky my kids were not with me. I was thinking about that deer and after watching it run off my mind was racing. I lost some focus on what I was doing. After 28 years of hunting with a fire arm, I never did anything like this. This was my first season with an AR frame. Im gonna definitely re evaluate the whole thing. I may be only putting one round in at a time going forward. It scared the crap out of me. I went thru hunter safety with my daughter this summer. So it was all fresh in my mind. But I still had an oops..
Please please be careful. Don't be like me.