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Don't do this.

Postby White Horseradish on Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:05 pm

Caution - a very understandable F-bomb

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Re: Don't do this.

Postby gyrfalcon on Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:12 pm

"I'm not making this video for sympathy and I'm not making it to be ridiculed" .... "I just @#$$ing shot myself"...

:mrgreen: :roll:


They need to get rid of those holsters...they're nothing but trouble from an ergonomic / ND standpoint.
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Re: Don't do this.

Postby blizzard on Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:13 pm

wow, thats amazing footage! stay safe out there!
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Re: Don't do this.

Postby usnret on Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:18 pm

Remember now boys and girls, he is a professional!

Doesn't this violate the rule of " Keep your booger hook off the bang switch!"
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Re: Don't do this.

Postby Snowgun on Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:33 pm

gyrfalcon wrote:They need to get rid of those holsters...they're nothing but trouble from an ergonomic / ND standpoint.


:roll:

Oh, No! Ban holsters because they are dangerous!

Did the holster cause the gun to fire? NO. This guy was trying to go a lot faster than his basic safety skills (or lack thereof) enabled him to.

Personally I think that some of these holsters with the thumb release makes it so that you are essentially gripping the gun with your three lower fingers when you are going real fast, since your trigger finger should be indexed, and your thumb hasn't wrapped around your grip yet...Therefore suckering people into using the trigger finger to help hold the gun...ON THE TRIGGER. This is due to them trying to go to fast before they get the mechanism down.

Anyway, if you want to quick draw, learn your equipment, or get a different holster.
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Re: Don't do this.

Postby ScatterGun4015 on Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:09 pm

usnret wrote:
Doesn't this violate the rule of " Keep your booger hook off the bang switch!"


That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the shot...
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Re: Don't do this.

Postby Quasar on Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:11 pm

Its takes a bit of courage to share this story. He didn't have to, it sure doesn't help the old ego. Thanks you sir.
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Re: Don't do this.

Postby jdege on Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:08 pm

He offered no advice on how to not have it happen again.

The usual advice is to "be more careful", which is worthless. So he's a step up from most people in this kind of incident.

Safety isn't a matter of care or attention, it's a matter of process. You need to develop processes for firearm handling that maintain safety, and practice them until they become routine.

His process had a flaw. He needs to examine the process, and eliminate the flaw.

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Re: Don't do this.

Postby mnmike59 on Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:13 pm

The camera did it.
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Re: Don't do this.

Postby gyrfalcon on Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:58 pm

Snowgun wrote:...Oh, No! Ban holsters because they are dangerous!...


I never said ban them, I said "get rid of them" as in have a recall, and stop production. Depressing the release with your trigger finger while drawing is a horrible design idea and directly leads to issues like this... Then again this point is probably lost on you and I'm wasting my time. I might as well get back to my project of designing rat poison that looks like real food. :roll:
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Re: Don't do this.

Postby Snowgun on Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:31 pm

gyrfalcon wrote:
Snowgun wrote:...Oh, No! Ban holsters because they are dangerous!...


I never said ban them, I said "get rid of them" as in have a recall, and stop production. Depressing the release with your trigger finger while drawing is a horrible design idea and directly leads to issues like this... Then again this point is probably lost on you and I'm wasting my time. I might as well get back to my project of designing rat poison that looks like real food. :roll:


Have you ever used such a holster?

I use a serpa, and it has a index finger lock. I actually think it assists your finger indexing on the frame if you use it correctly. You can certainly miss use it just like any other holster when you try and draw quicker than you are able.

Maybe we should "recall" the 1911 because it has those damn safety's that can get people killed. Or maybe we should recall those damn glocks since they don't have the safety's that get people killed. I mean, it CAN'T be the user's fault for not correctly using their equipment, right?
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Re: Don't do this.

Postby tman on Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:49 am

Snowgun wrote:
gyrfalcon wrote:
Snowgun wrote:...Oh, No! Ban holsters because they are dangerous!...


I never said ban them, I said "get rid of them" as in have a recall, and stop production. Depressing the release with your trigger finger while drawing is a horrible design idea and directly leads to issues like this... Then again this point is probably lost on you and I'm wasting my time. I might as well get back to my project of designing rat poison that looks like real food. :roll:


Have you ever used such a holster?

I use a serpa, and it has a index finger lock. I actually think it assists your finger indexing on the frame if you use it correctly. You can certainly miss use it just like any other holster when you try and draw quicker than you are able.

Maybe we should "recall" the 1911 because it has those damn safety's that can get people killed. Or maybe we should recall those damn glocks since they don't have the safety's that get people killed. I mean, it CAN'T be the user's fault for not correctly using their equipment, right?



I refer you back to the Frontsite Neg Discharge discussion...

I think there's a little smoke here. And where there's smoke...
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Re: Don't do this.

Postby nyffman on Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:18 am

usnret wrote:Remember now boys and girls, he is a professional!

Doesn't this violate the rule of " Keep your booger hook off the bang switch!"

After the shot went off, my training took over.........


Too bad it didn't take over just a split second earlier.
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Re: Don't do this.

Postby Rev. Dead Corpse on Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:07 am

I need to send my Serpa CQC back, it is obviously defective. Not once have I shot myself because of it... :roll:
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Re: Don't do this.

Postby Snowgun on Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:39 am

tman wrote:I refer you back to the Frontsite Neg Discharge discussion...

I think there's a little smoke here. And where there's smoke...


Where there's smoke stands someone who wasn't careful with their matches. :)

You could make the argument that nobody should carry with one in the chamber since EVERY SINGLE ND has happened when there has been a round left in the chamber. Isn't that enough smoke to locate a fire? Small guns have been linked to problems, is that a reason to get rid of them, or to acknowledge that such equipment requires more training?

While I acknowledge that the index lock mechanism might make bad draw skills worse (especially if your disengaging the safety before drawing? see 1:30 on in the video), it is still inherently not the holster's fault. The holster is not making the gun go off. I just don't believe we should automatically blame the equipment without the equipment mechanically failing during correct usage...
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