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A .45 caliber round makes a pretty big hole, I can just imagine how the conversation went:

"Check out my new .45, it has a really great trigger pull"........nice squeeze ............Bang!!!!...........Oh Shit...........OUCH!":Surrender:

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What dumbfcker would be photographing his handiwork, instead of going right to the ER to get fixed up? Sorry I forgot, I guess the same dumbfcker that blew half his big toe off! JC on a bicycle!

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Probably took it after he'd been to the hospital. Not enough blood for before!

That has GOT to hurt. Bet he'll remember gun safety the next time he's playing with his toys.

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Yep, that had to sting a bit.
I would guess the pics are a few days after the incident seeing as its not spraying blood anymore.They probably shot him full of kefflex and told him to keep it clean, not much to stitch up there anymore! DOH!!!!

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Would a hospital send someone home like that?

I don't think so.

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Oh crap, I just noticed you can see the floor tile through the hole in his shoe!
I understand thats not funny........but............mmmphh......BAHAHAHAHA HAHA!!!!!!!!!!
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Gotta love GIM.

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Nasty!

A hole in one!

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I'd bet a dollar to a donut, that this guy eventually ends up losing the toe, with that much damage. I can see bone in the photo. Foot wounds are a real bitch.

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The story on other forums and email chains is that the victim had been resting the end of his shotgun on his foot, not a .45.

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Dude. that sucks...

A guy that hangs around my local gun store managed to shoot himself while pulling his 9mm out of the holster... in/out of his thigh, in/out of his calf and through his foot. On Thanksgiving day.

DOH!

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Thats possible if it was a .410. A 12 or 20 gauge no, the holes not big enough...:no_ma:

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DAMN a little warning next time. I just sat down at the computer after eating dinner!!!!!!!! A few years back the Sheriff in my town did the same thing.

Sheriff shoots himself in the foot

July 25, 1998
CNN - 11:07 p.m. EDT (2307 GMT)

TAZEWELL, Tennessee (AP) -- Most people just do it figuratively. Sheriff Bruce Seal literally shot himself in the foot -- with a pistol he keeps in his pants pocket with his car keys.

"The bullet went down my pants leg and into my foot," said Seal, sheriff of Claiborne County in eastern Tennessee.

Seal shot himself Thursday when he reached for his car keys in his pocket and inadvertently set off his pistol. No surgery was required, but Seal was hospitalized.

Seal said he carries his Glock 9 mm pistol in his pocket and believes one of his keys must have gotten hung up on the trigger.

"I'm doing fine," Seal said from the Claiborne County Hospital. "I'm in charge and running the sheriff's department right here from my bed."

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He's gonna be alright, folks...

And when I say all-right, it's because the left side of that foot is freaking gone.

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I hope old lead-foot didn't have to drive himself to the hospital.

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LOLZZZZ:111:

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People who shoot their toe do not stop to photograph it. They scream bloody murder and/or go into shock.

My guess is that this buckaroo took his bandages off (while under the influence of some wonderful pain meds) to photograph the damage. You can actually see the chipped(?) bone of his big toe which I find a little unsettling.

I'm not certain what the treatment would be for losing 1/2 of one's big toe but as a guess, they might pack the whole area with iodized gauze to reduce the chance of infection and promote slow healing. The photos had to be made after he was treated as there is no copious bleeding present.

Also from the angle of the photos, he was most likely photographed by somebody else.

I can only imagine him looking down at the hole in his shoe and the blood pooling up as he wondered how bad it was...and then came the pain.

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Many years ago, I was taken along on a spring bear hunt up in Canada by a friend that was 10 years older than I at the time. We had a local guide that was illegally baiting the bears and then he was driving us around the woods at night in an old chevy van to check out his bait stations.

When we got to one of them, there was a nice black bear feeding and looking up at us in the headlights. My friend told me to go ahead and take the shot, he would wait for the next one. I really did not want to kill the bear, I was not too thrilled with this guide and his methods. I declined and my friend shot and killed the bear cleanly. The idea then was to leave the bear till dawn, when it would be legal to kill a bear and we were supposed to go back for it.

When my friend got back in the van, he was standing hunched over in the back and I was seated in the passenger seat, and the guide was driving. He started to drive off right as my friend was sliding his 30-06 into his rifle sleeve. He had worked the bolt after his first shot and the gun was still loaded and off safe. He just totally screwed up, I guess partially out of fear and partially out of excitement. Anyway, as the van lurched away from a stop the gun went off, the bullet took my friends left index finger off except a flap of skin, the round exited the case, went into the guides right shoulder and exited and then went into his thigh and exited out the other side and then just about took his big toe off on his left foot. It pretty much looked like the one up in the pictures only there was even less meat holding it on and part of the bone was shot away.

I was maybe 22 years old at the time, and it was a real trip dealing with two guys screaming and bleeding in this van. I helped the driver out of the seat and laid him on the floor in the back and then took the wheel and started driving back to his cabin. On the way back, the guide is crying and begging us not to tell anyone about shooting the bear. I came up with the story that my buddy was cleaning the gun on the front porch of the guides cabin and he did not realize he had a round chambered and when he went to put it away, it went off.

When we did get to his cabin, I took them both out of the van and set them on the porch where they cooperated by bleeding all over the porch, lending credibility to the story. I went inside and called the RMCP and waited the 20 minutes or so for them to get there.

I hid the van in the guides garage and it all went down as planned. My buddy was hospitalized for like a week and before we left to come home, we gave the guide our guns and ammo, knives and binoculars and some fishing gear for his trouble and we never went back there again. The guide got a lawyer and tried to get money out of my friend. What he did not know was I went back where the bear was at the next day and took pictures and covered the carcass with brush, and we told him if he persued the matter, we would have to revise our story to the RMCP. He eventually settled with my friend for another $2000, without ever making a case out of it.

I will never forget the screaming and the blood. That happened back in 1974, and my friend passed away 10 years ago from bone cancer. I always called him Nine Fingers after that happened. He was a good friend and I miss him. We always had crazy adventures.

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Does that look like a gun shot to you?
Seems too clean and not enough flesh fragging.
Maybe it's some flesh eating bacteria.
Better splash some colloidal silver on it.
Just imagine if that was how the girl in argintina started out. Bummer fer sure. :s15:

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Heh, I enjoyed your portrayal. Friends help you hunt bear, real friends help you drive the "Guides" van back in the garage.

Good on yah. Too bad on your friends passing.

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Maybe the guy that shot himself in the foot with a .45 worked for the DEA.

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This dude has an ego the size of an elephant.

No wonder we are screwed with dumbass fvks like this on the force. :Surrender:

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Easy to call the guy stupid.
Ever cut yourself with a knife?
Ever swallow wrong?
Crash a car?
Trip over your own feet?

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I had a finger cut off in an industrial accident, but didn't bother to photograph the result of my carelessness.

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Could have been worse... could have shot himself in the wiener.

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I know that he is going to lose that big toe nail.....

WOW

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This is exactly why I'm afraid of handling guns. I've done every one of these things and other stupid things. Numerous times, to boot.

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Just falow simple 4 gun rulles and that will never happened.

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I had a former boss that shot himself in the foot practicing his quick draw (it was a 45 Long Colt). His daughter used that same weapon later on to kill her boyfriends wife...just like in the Joey Butafooco's case. Some people just have bad mojo I reckon...

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I bought a Ruger super single six back in 1979 and I picked up a real nice western holster rig for it, and then I started thinking I was Jesse James or something and started practicing quick draws with it. I used to take guns to work back in those days at times, because there was a range right by where I worked, and I would go right after work with some of the other guys at times. One day, I had the ruger in the trunk, and when we were leaving work, I told a buddy, "hey Rich, check this out" I put the rig on and proceeded to show him how fast I had gotten. I drew the gun and it went flying about 20 feet through the air and slammed onto the pavement and then slid about another 20 feet. He looked at me and said, "that was pretty cool" "Is that what you do when you are out of ammo?, throw it at the other guy". Yeah, I have pulled some real boners with guns, never anything that included unintentional injury though. Thank God.

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LOL...that's funny I don't care who you are. A little more practice and you'll be as good as ole Trinity himself.

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The DEA guy got a little too casual with his gun handling. A good lesson for all of us, especially those new to guns. RESPECT the GUN. Accidents can happen to even the safest of us, so you have to be 100 times more careful.

What REALLY gets me is all the reports of people getting shot while "cleaning their gun". What does THAT MEAN??? How do you clean YOUR gun in a way you can shoot yourself?

Step 1) make sure the gun is not loaded *****BAM*****

Is that how it works? Now if someone told me they were practicing thier draw from a holster with a loaded gun, and shot themself, I can think of a few ways it may have happened. Still stupid, but possible (I have been known to do stupid)

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Are you also afraid of handling a chainsaw? Not trying to be a smartass here, but guns and chainsaws are both tools, which must be used with knowledge of safe use and the result of unsafe practices can have horrendous results, as seen in the OP photo.

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Ok ok, I didn't really mean that I was AFRAID of it. After telling my husband about my reply, I realized what I said and that I really meant that I have a huge RESPECT for guns. I know the rules. I've taken a few lessons. I'm actually better at it than he is..... He keeps teasing, saying, if TSHTF, I should be the one to stand guard and protect him! Hah!

The thought of using a chainsaw does slightly frighten me but I've never had to. I don't even really like using the electric hedge trimmer....

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Those "Trinity" movies were great! :coolbeer:

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There are those (gun owners) who have had an ND and those who will. If you own guns and actually handle them, you fall into one of these two groups, no exceptions. Fortunately, most NDs only harm the ego but the lesson is for life!:ok:

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A friend of mine's son did that to himself with a 308 rifle 3/4 of a mile back into a nasty nasty nasty U.P. swamp. Saw a deer then forgot to put the safety back on as he was stillhunting. They had to backpack him out of there. Damned kid was lucky as it was his left foot and he was pitching college baseball and trying out for the majors a couple years later; he's a lefty and I don't think he could pitch if he would have damaged his kick-off foot that badly.

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i've had friends tell me stories about doing that. i guess everyone does. everyone wants to be clint. but there can be only one clint.

i had a buddy in his 60s that told me he almost shot himself in the foot that way. he didnt wanna be clint after that. now on the other hand, i was on a hunting trip with him and saw something rather amazing.

we were out at the deer lease at the king ranch in south texas. you have to watch out for rattle snakes down there in the tall weeds. well anyway, he was walking a few feet ahead of me...then he freezes for a second.

He jumped up in the air, both feet leaving the ground, drew, fired downward while in midair, shot the snake and landed on both feet. it was the most amazing shot i've ever seen and i'll not likely see something like that again in my life. not bad for someone in thier early 60s.

the snake in question didnt die easy, either. in the movies, you shoot a snake and it just keels over. we followed this one for about 100 yards. best shot i've ever seen.

good ol Captain Bonnet. The man will always have my respect. we had good times. they don't make em like they used to. vietnam vet, bronze star for charging a tank...and one hell of a shot. :rose:

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I sometimes break some of the 4 basic rule's on accident with "cleared" firearms, and it give's me chills every trime it happens.

Like: maybe this isn't the right sport for me.

Worst offender is trying to learn to rack the slide one handed. 2 times now with this one.

I don't care if I just stuck my arm in the breach: I don't like guns pointing at me.

Anyone ever had some drunken idiot play "wave a "unloaded" gun around" in their presence? I'm unfortunate enough to have mutual friends with some of these dickheads.

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Worse than that, about 30 years ago, me and some friends were partying at the trailer of a mutual acquaintance. We were all drinking and smoking dope, when this guy reached into the sofa, brought out a revolver and fired 4 shots into the wall across from him. No warning, no reason, except to "liven up" the party. The rest of us just sat there with our mouths hanging open, ears ringing. I found a good reason to leave, right after that. I knew this guy was a major league psycho, but never expected that! :36_1_28:

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The party is over! :36_1_25: Time to go clean the shorts. :moon::4_1_72:

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lol nice...good times.

about 12 years ago, i was invited down to the huntin' lease for the first time. i was about 17 at the time when i learned what the huntin' lease was all about.

alcohol, camping and getting away from the wives n kids. my buddy Tom (ol' snake shooter) didnt drink and neither one of us had family to get away from, so i was keen to see some hunting.

i remember asking: "so how are we going to catch deer when they're all gettin drunk and whoopin it up at the trailer?"

he said "well first of all , they've probably scared all the deer off within 50 miles with that racket. that's why our trailers over there, not here. secondly, we're not here to catch the deer. we're here to kill them and hopefully take some home to eat."

so ok. catch or kill, as long as theres venison i'm happy! after the first night, it becomes obvious that the mighty hunters over yonder have scared off ALL the game and we can hear them miles away, takin pot shots at tin cans and whatnot.

and ya know...hunting is NOT hard in texas. you load up the feeder with corn, climb up into a deer blind and aim for whatever comes to eat out of the deer feeder. you would think the hunters would have the edge in this situation.

but no.
alcohol levels the playing field.

they freakin shot one of the ranchers cows. how the HELL do you mistake a deer for a cow? they shot a cow... and you could hear the noise for Miles! it was a very expensive mistake for the mighty hunters and thankfully they were wealthy enough to pay for that mistake and many others, but damn...

Tom never let em live that one down. i spent some good times in south texas at the huntin lease, but we never had a chance against the deer with those guys around.

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That would have to be one long barreled 45acp to do the damage to the shoe. You can plainly see the powder residue on the shoe. In fact it looks like the muzzle of the "shotgun" that did that was resting on the shoe.

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BE CAREFUL with revolvers as well.

I got an email the other night from my dad. The email showed 3 bullet holes. One going through my old bed room, one on the other side of the wall, and one going through the ceiling out through the roof.

Apparently he over oiled his new ROSSI 38spl. Well the thing has a hair trigger out of the box. He had it cocked, and went to de-cock it...his oily thumb slipped off and BOOM!

Luckly nobody got hurt and mom was on the other side of the house.

:banghead:

The old man was pretty shook up.

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i stubbed my toe on a solar reflector a few years ago. it cut about 5/8" deep, as expected, bleeding everywhere.

what was surprising about it was how it felt. as if somebody had hit it with a very big hammer. different than the typical searing pain you get when you cut something & then open up the wound to the air.

"when you say it hurt a lot, could you please be more specific ?"

is there an interview with the guy with the holey foot ? :cry1:

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It was so long ago, I don't remember the underwear status, but I do recall the joyous feeling about getting out of there without any bullet holes in me!

Believe it or not, the shooter ended up as an orthopedic surgical assistant 15 years later. Married with kids, the whole deal. But we never were friends.

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Oh Sh!t! That was one hole, what about the other two holes?!? How did he fire 3 shots?

I think that would shake anyone up, why was the gun loaded?

Gun accidents don't happen with unloaded guns.

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Amen Bro...

They do happen. I only hope that when mine happens that the muzzle is pointed in a direction to do as little harm as possible to anyone or anything. But even that is some degree of luck. We all have lapses and have all been saved by dumb luck at one time or another.

Whenever I see someone (usually at the range) who is a little casual or overconfident in there gun handling, I get myself somewhere else.

And how many times have you said something to the guy pointing the gun at you, and had them reply "what's the big deal? It's not even loaded..."

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You said it. I used to think that NDs would only happen to that other (sorry) guy. It only took me 32 years after having pulled my first trigger to become that "other guy". With 16 years of military service, qualifications in dozens of weapons systems, a unit armorer, a ccw holder (and actual carrier) for 13 years, an active hunter for 26 years, it finally happened to me. Fortunately, after all that gun safety and experience, at least the barrel was pointed in a safe direction.....but my ego will never be the same.:wink:

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My Uncles Nehpew(Uncle as in married to my mothers sister, so the nephew is unrelated) was murdered a few months ago at a party because of a douche bag like that.

Kids were all sitting around, drinking having a good time. Douche bag come out with .45 or what not and starts pointing it at people pretending to shoot. Like pointing it and saying "bam"

People were getting pissed at him. The Nephew didnt know but the kid pointed the gun at the back of his head and this time actually pulled the trigger. Not hard to figure out what happened after that.

The shooter said he thought the gun was unloaded, but many in the family doubt if that is true or not since this kid was known to have some 'serious' mental instabilities.

The nephew was only like 19 or 20 or something, not old at all. Bright kid with a future ahead of him.

If I ever...EVER...see anyone treating a gun in that careless of a manner, I am taking my ass and my friends out of that house very, very quickly.

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I know the humbling feeling of an AD. My first and only (I hope) was at an indoor pistol range, I had a FFF problem, which resulted in the AD. Fortunately, the round went into the next lane and I was alone when it happened. Very, very humbling.