All it needs is a couple of hooks to hang it up…or in the spirit of former owner(s) just screw it directly to the wall.

Mike

What just an extra screw hole. A minor flesh wound!

Maverick

True Story! Almost forgot this one.

My dad once lost a mint Colt Buntline 22 by accidentally shooting it with his Model 97 while working in his gun room. I think the only thing that was he salvaged was the barrel and maybe the cylinder (I’ll have to ask him, as I don’t remember exactly). The frame, ejector, grips, hammer, even most of the screws where toast. Of course, things could have went way worse. You would have to understand the layout of his gun room for it to make sense to most people. Next to his work bench on the wall is a pistol case that holds around 25 pistols, mostly colts, rugers and what not. Anyway we just came back from a SASS shoot and he was trying to clear out his 97 that was jammed up. He thought it was a relatively simple jam and easy fix, otherwise he would have never brought the gun into the house with a live round in the chamber. Well some how or another something slipped and he managed to accidentally set off the 97. While he was standing about 2 to 3 foot away from the case. Some people might not think a number 7&1/2 cowboy light load 12 gauge round would completely destroy a pistol, it will. He nailed that Buntline dead center. Luckily for my dad he was very smart when he build his gun room. When he built his house they made the living room wall & fireplace out of natural stone Arkansas granite boulders . The gun room is off the Living Room and he went ahead and wrapped the whole wall around the gun room in Arkansas granite boulders. The light cowboy round went through the pistol case, through the buntline, through the gypsum board, through the wall stud, then was stopped by the back side of the granite wall. Which was a good thing as my mother was only a few feet away ironing clothes. Needless to say my mother was not happy at all! You’d also have to know my father, he is very firearm safety oriented person, and was very quick to tear my hide if I ever did anything remotely considered dangerous while handling a gun. Now it is a laughing matter for us, and we still get a kick out of it. It is also one of those reminders that make you stop and think about what your doing when handling a gun.

Which reminds of those Remington Model 700s that they finally recalled. I don’t know how many different people I knew that had that model rifle that had it go off accidentally on them. And we knew about it for years before they recalled them, and well outside of the recall dates they stated it was for.  

Sincerely,

Maverick

I was one of the unlucky ones that had had one of the M700’s that liked to go off when unprovoked.  Bought the rifle used when I was about 14 (traded in the Mohawk 600 in 243 id used in the years before).  Had and used the rifle for nearly 20 years without issue.  Unbeknownst to me there was a problem, the first time it went off I was hunting and jumped a buck, had the rifle on the sling and rotated it under the shoulder and brought up to shoot and it went off.  I blamed it on myself for being careless.  Wasnt a good feeling.  The following season I was sitting in a stand and clicked it to fire and it went off between my feet.  Again, situation being what it was I thought it was my error.  Granted the gun had been used and shot enough sighting it in, but those were the only two times it happened so I always blamed myself for being sloppy.  Scared the heck out of me.  The next year, before I was going to shoot the rifle in for deer season I was driving by one of the stock tanks and decided to shoot at some turtles.  The first round went off as soon as I flipped off the safety.  Every round after that would do the same or would go off when you chambered a round and closed the bolt.  Looking back all those years ago its divine intervention no one ever got hurt.  Needless to say I was relieved to find it wasnt my error.  Got it fixed and havent looked back.

Now, the 870 shotgun barrel I banana peeled when I was a kid was kind of my fault, was putting a sneak on some ducks, slipped at the edge of the creek, saw the barrel go under the water, the ducks heard commotion and lit out of there, I pulled up and shot.  A little mud can sure do some bad things.  My dad wasnt too happy, had to buy my mom a new barrel for her shotgun.