You are being rather hard on Alex. Lets face it he is not a gun person that is obvious but look how many “real gun persons” do dumb things and shoot themselves and or other people.
I had a buddy who was twirling a smith .38 revolver on his finger and the gun went off and he shot his clock off the wall. I asked him if he was trying to make time fly.
I had another buddy that brought me a blown up Remington 700. I asked him how this happened. He said “Dang if I know I went according to the loads in the Lyman loading manual”. I said “I have a lyman manual right here, show me what load you used”. He took the manual and pointed to a load and said “There is the load, its right here in the book, I started with this maximum load and worked up from there”. I then immediately downed a bottle of prosaic.
I had another buddy drop his loaded shotgun onto the kitchen floor. It was an old double barrel of unknown make that had seen better days during the turn of the last century. The shotgun went off and put a charge up through the bottom of the cabinet that held his wife’s dishes. The door blew open sending broken dishes in every direction. The cat jumped two body lengths off the floor, made a 90 degree turn and lit off for parts unknown. I was hot on the heels of the cat.
