I live in a township where firing a gun is legal...yet only 30 feet away is the corporation line of Cincinnati where it is illegal to discharge - plus they are soon going to install a gunfire detection system. Needless to say I am going to have fun testing their system...and I'll be acting legallyImcrazy wrote:Yeah I've got 3-1/2 acres of safe direction two steps out side my front or back door! I wouldn't need to wait for it to be dark either.....glocksmith wrote:Agreed. An even simpler and cheaper solution would be to take it into the backyard after dark, point it at the ground and rack the slide.Imcrazy wrote:I don't understand the need, when has a modern pistol discharged by racking a round in? A bucket of sand seems simplest if you feel the need.
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Re: Backstop ideas
Give em' Hell Pike!!!
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At least 1/2 mile and fifty acres open fall plowed fields in all four directions !Imcrazy wrote:Yeah I've got 3-1/2 acres of safe direction two steps out side my front or back door! I wouldn't need to wait for it to be dark either.....glocksmith wrote:Agreed. An even simpler and cheaper solution would be to take it into the backyard after dark, point it at the ground and rack the slide.Imcrazy wrote:I don't understand the need, when has a modern pistol discharged by racking a round in? A bucket of sand seems simplest if you feel the need.
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I don't disagree with your line of thinking, at all, Imcrazy.JustaShooter wrote:Neither had I until the recall, to be honest. But since I had an XDs and was now aware that simply chambering a round could result in a discharge, it got me to thinking, and I decided that my concept of "safe direction" needed to be reevaluated.Imcrazy wrote:I've never even given it a thought that the gun might go off by racking a round into it, how would that even be possible? Hammer falling past the safety catch on a series 70 1911 maybe?.... I guess I can see the example of a defective gun causing a ND/AD like the XDS did at one point so I will say yeah point it at something that will absorb the shot and you won't be devastated if it's destroyed...
However, there's always that - however remote - chance of *something* going awry.
A firearm under recall is definitely such a possibility, but we all should remember what initiated the recall in the first place: that there were instances of mechanical fault that were then unknown.
Additionally, the possibility - again however remote - of parts failure that causes such a problem just cannot be erased.
I know that this is taking things to the extremes, and I am by no way suggesting that this is reasonable, but to-wit, if we are so certain of the condition of our weapon, then can we not discard Rules 2 and 3 (and 4, too, but that's almost inconsequential as a result of the 2/3 violation), at-will?
I guess what I'm trying to suggest is that there is value-added to having that backstop - or, at the very least, being conscious of where that bullet might go and the damage that it can potentially do, should that happen.
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Re: Backstop ideas
Safest direction possible for all handling. Inside my house that's a wood box lined with some Kevlar vest scrap (that wasn't easy to mooch!) and a heavy duty plastic bag full of sand. "Bullet Motel: Bullets go in, they don't come out."
Quit worrying, hide your gun well, shut up, and CARRY that handgun!
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I want to thank everyone that posted - the bucket of sand is what I will start with and perhaps mod that idea with an angled pipe into the sand with a padded upper rim. Just to elaborate a bit, I have a 1911 discharge when the slide release was pressed (at a range in California). I had just watched the owner fire several full mags with no problems at all. Yet when I loaded a mag and hit the slide release it went into battery and fired a round. This backstop is also for my wife a two daughters that are relatively new to gun ownership, so I want them to learn the safe way and not to depend on any mechanical safety, de-cocker or anything else that can get wear, crack or get out of spec. I don't like patching holes.
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