ever dry fire at the TV?

[b4uqzme]

try it --- it's not necessarily easy to get on target before the target disappears (screen changes -- moves around -- etc.). Pretty good practice IMHO. Just check that chamber first. Unless you really want a new TV.

Now to find a Jim Carrey movie...:rolleyes:

[Ikeo74]

Not a good idea. Sooner or later you are going to forget to unload and all hell is going to break loose.:eek: Let us know when it happens.

[b4uqzme]

it's an old TV

[skiflydive]

All the time but I can't say who I aim at...

[certified106]

All the time but I can't say who I aim at...

+1.....

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[RevRay]

It wouldn't technically be dry firing if you forgot to unload ... just saying.

[lamppa]

I did it all the time when i first got the CM9

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[b4uqzme]

suddenly I have the urge to watch CNN...

[LorenzoB]

No, but sometimes I have the urge to live fire at it.

[Bawanna]

True story, back in the mid 60's, that's 1960's for you younguns, my uncle long since passed shot a hole dead center in the TV set.
I was there. My cousins (3) and me and my 2 sisters were running around his house, you could make a circuit thru the living room, then the kitchen down a hall and back into the living room.
My dad, my grandpa and my uncle were watching a western. My uncle had cleaned his semi auto 22, don't recall exactly, a Hi Standard or possibly a Woodsman.
He apparently inserted a mag and dropped the slide, then later decided to take a shot at Black Bart on the screen neglecting to clear that scary chamber.

We're running around and BANG. We were just entering the living room so even with him and not in the line of fire. The world came to a stop. Hit smack center of the tv and after a few seconds the picture sucked down into the hole like a vacuum. A few minutes later the picture came back out of the hole and was fine. He had to replace the glass but not the picture tube. They watched that same tv for many years.
I was probably 6 but I remember it like I was 11.

I was there.
He sold all his guns a few years later except a couple hunting rifles. He told me he was gonna sell, I was probably 18 or so by then. I bought them all. Winchester pre 64 70 Featherweight in 243, a Winchester 88 in 308 and a couple garden variety nothing specials.

[aray]

Guess someone's been watching too many Jim Carrey movies on TV, eh? :)

[CJB]

No names mentioned.... however..... I happen to know that one of the shooters on the team that took 2nd place amateur class in the 2nd Annual Chevy Truck Team Challenge , when it was held at Markham Park in Broward county Fl, did in fact put the bullet from a nicely tuned Colt .45 automatic right through his team and room mate's very large TV. And for those to care to look it up, it wasn't the older guy, and it wasn't the shorter guy with curly hair!!:D

[yqtszhj]

I may not dry fire (pull the trigger) every time but I draw and see how fast it takes to get sights on target to a light switch or wall outlet across the room. The gun is unloaded though. I can really find out if a particular gun is fitting my hand this way.

If draw and point doesn't get front and back sights lined up and on target I have to do something with the grips on the gun. Most single stack 9mm and .45 fit just right. My 92fs is another story.

[dkmatthews]

Oh, you meant GUNS... Oh. Right. Got it.

:behindsofa:

[kwh]

Yes But after reading the above accounts I may rethink my actions.

[QuackXP]

I have done this. I usually shoot at whoever I don't like on TV.

I have a guaranteed protocol that I follow at home. Any firearm that is to be cleaned or dry fired is unloaded in the one room where I store them. They are then inspected that they are empty and all magazines are empty. I then take the firearm action open to another room where I do dry fire or maintenance and inspect the firearm and the mags again.

If I'm going to show someone a firearm I don't allow them to be in the storage room with me while I unload and clear the firearm.

[codegeek]

Yea, I thought you were talking about Bowchicawowow :D

[Ugly_Dog]

i'm saving my pennies to buy a laser target for in home dry fire

[jdlott74]

jlottmc does it all the time...

[ltxi]

True story, back in the mid 60's, that's 1960's for you younguns, my uncle long since passed shot a hole dead center in the TV set.
I was there. My cousins (3) and me and my 2 sisters were running around his house, you could make a circuit thru the living room, then the kitchen down a hall and back into the living room.
My dad, my grandpa and my uncle were watching a western. My uncle had cleaned his semi auto 22, don't recall exactly, a Hi Standard or possibly a Woodsman.
He apparently inserted a mag and dropped the slide, then later decided to take a shot at Black Bart on the screen neglecting to clear that scary chamber.

We're running around and BANG. We were just entering the living room so even with him and not in the line of fire. The world came to a stop. Hit smack center of the tv and after a few seconds the picture sucked down into the hole like a vacuum. A few minutes later the picture came back out of the hole and was fine. He had to replace the glass but not the picture tube. They watched that same tv for many years.
I was probably 6 but I remember it like I was 11.

I was there.
He sold all his guns a few years later except a couple hunting rifles. He told me he was gonna sell, I was probably 18 or so by then. I bought them all. Winchester pre 64 70 Featherweight in 243, a Winchester 88 in 308 and a couple garden variety nothing specials.

Freakin' Awesome! (that be old person Awesome not 20 sumptin' awesome)

I never dry fire at the tv no more 'cept for during dog shows and them dating game/bachelorette thingys.

[muggsy]

try it --- it's not necessarily easy to get on target before the target disappears (screen changes -- moves around -- etc.). Pretty good practice IMHO. Just check that chamber first. Unless you really want a new TV.

Now to find a Jim Carrey movie...:rolleyes:

I'm a Brown's fan. I've pointed a gun at the TV lots of times. :)

[Gray_Rider]

it's an old TV


I once was discussing CCW with the wife of my then best friend (a non-gun but not anti gun couple) and let her handle my freshly unloaded and chamber (thrice checked) and magazine dropped (Thank the Saviour) AMT .380 DAO Back Up.

She promptly pointed it at the TV and pulled the trigger! I was drawing in a breath to shout NOOOOO!!! when the gun went CLICK!:32:It happened just that fast.

But yes, in answer to your question, I do occasionally do TV point and shoot drills. I just don't pull the trigger, and yes, always unloaded, double checked, and I'm usually home alone just for good measure.

I don't mean to offend the squeamish here but it also gives you real life safe practice of seeing a "real" (remember its just electronic signals on a TV screen folks) human face or human body in front of your pistol sight. Kind of a poor man's private-in-home-force-on-force training if you will.

I use DVD's of movie gunfights or selected images of "attacking" criminals or ememy soldiers in battle rushing the screen. Makes you appreciate a long gun or shotgun, and it is VERY sobering each and every time I do it.

Read that...Get this now! Its not something I look forward to doing in RL, and am very thankfull I have never had to do it in RL, but is nice to know I can keep my family safer by performing nearly RL situations with a real firearm drawn from my real carry rigs under a variety of situations and positions with as close to RL attackers as I can get.

Yes. I do advise others to so practice too! Drop an empty magazine. Reload an empty magazine. Rack the slide. Present your gun from RL carry and routine daily body configurations including presentation from the floor, "cover" or fire and move drills etc. If a "real gun" scares you, use a realistic toy or paint ball simulation gun.

If the real stranger danger shows his face, God Forbid! You will be slightly better prepared for the horror that's about to engulf you.

Gray_Rider
Deo Vindice!

NUFF SAID!