Dumb Ass

[Mr. Stevenson]

Have "A Christmas Story" in the background as I peruse the net now and reminded of a real situation by way of ricochet.

In the early '80's the Powerline 880 was offered in a few configurations. There was an ad showing ? gauge steel perforated by BB's with the smooth bbl version. I got that one for Christmas. Shit for pellets; good to go with BB's.

One fine spring day I decided to test the ad at point blank on a STOP sign. Not good. The BB bounced back and hit me just below the sternum. I dropped to my knees like from a good stomach punch that afternoon. It didn't break the skin but left a fantastic bruise.

Anyone else have a dumbass story to share?...

Merry Christmas! I like the Tin Man.

 

[Bed Wetter]

It was Christmas Eve. I couldn’t sleep so I picked up my phone and checked out NDA. Lo and behold, a thread titled “Dumbass.” Within a moment or two of clicking on it, I realized it was 90 seconds of my life I was never going to have back. The dumbass was me.

 

[LBrandt]

I belived that my online purchases would arrive by Christmas. NOT. Thats my dumbass move.

 

[johnr]

Trusting a 3 day bender fart

 

[Twitch]

Trusting a 3 day bender fart

Now you’re just mixing stupidity with brazen intrepidity

 

[fireone]

A day with a very mild breeze. Not another person around. Brought my boat in to the dock at the ramp and set some stuff out. Went to get the truck and coming back the boat had drifted out about a 100 yds. The quick wrap of the rope had slipped off the dock post. Swam out to the boat, just made it, and got the bow rope tied on my wrist. There must be guardian angles because the wind died completely and I was able to side stroke back to shore. A guy died at Devils Lake that same week doing the same stupid thing. As I sat on shore sucking air I thought my old boat and motor would only sell for maybe a thousand dollars.

Just thinking of another one. Pheasant hunting alone in Dec. and I cut across a big slough. Went through the ice and couldn't touch bottom. It is amazing what absolute fear combined with adrenaline will do for you.

 

[PrairieGhost]

Mr Stevenson I think I can one up you. About 40 years ago I bought a broken black powder deringer from a guy. The hammer spring was broken, and the company no longer existed so I ordered spring making steel from Dixie Gun Works to bend and temper my own. I didnt have te patience to wait so I wrapped a ruber band around the hammer and anchored on the tang. A friend andI did a lot of squirrel hunting with black powder at the time and I took the little deringer along. We were sitting quiet in the woods and seeing nothing so out come the deringer. I only wanted to hear it go bang and see it hit something. I only put in ten grains of powder wich would get a 45 cal 127gr round ball doing between 300 to 400 fps out of its two inch barrel. Powder and ball used up one inch so it was more like a one inchbarrel. At maybe ten yards at most was a dead green ash with a dark nickel size knot hole in the smooth barkless trunk. Strange how tough old dry ash wood is. I hit about six inches low. The pure soft lead expanded to about 70 cal. Some expanshion occured on the wood and some occured on my shin bone. That sucker swelled like a golf ball. The ball fell at my feet and once I stopped howling and holding my leg I picked it up. The lead was softenough and my bone hard enough that a perfect imprint ofvthe weave of the cloth in my blue jeans was imprinted on the flattened ball. Somewhere I still have that ball as a reminder of patience required, dumb moves. and strangle things that can happen.

 

[Kentucky Windage]

Have "A Christmas Story" in the background as I peruse the net now and reminded of a real situation by way of ricochet.

In the early '80's the Powerline 880 was offered in a few configurations. There was an ad showing ? gauge steel perforated by BB's with the smooth bbl version. I got that one for Christmas. Shit for pellets; good to go with BB's.

One fine spring day I decided to test the ad at point blank on a STOP sign. Not good. The BB bounced back and hit me just below the sternum. I dropped to my knees like from a good stomach punch that afternoon. It didn't break the skin but left a fantastic bruise.

Anyone else have a dumbass story to share?...

Merry Christmas! I like the Tin Man.

75% of your posts I read, I think, how high is this guy right now........

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BTW........it’s trashy to post threads with swear words in the title. I swear more than I’d like to admit, but I don’t do it here.

 

[Captain Ahab]

I used a slingshot a lot as a kid. After a while you try to figure out all the things you can fling with it. At one point a buddy and I thought it would be cool to fling .22 rounds at old/abandoned equipment. We would peak over something, fling the round and duck back behind our barrier. The .22 would fire 9 times out of 10 when it hit heavy steel. Then we'd laugh and do it again. Not real bright.

After thinking about all the physics, I imagine the light brass probably just blew out rather than pushing the bullet anywhere. Why is youth wasted on the young?

 

[KDM]

Oh, let's see.......was filling fluids in the truck one day, got in a hurry, and put the windshield washer fluid in the oil and the oil in the washer fluid. In my defense, both were in gallon jugs. Forgot to put the lug nuts on one tire after rotating them. Hooked up the boat without locking the ball hitch and pulled it for a couple miles on just the safety chains. Cut the anchor rope with the prop when I forgot to pull it in and hit the throttle to go to another spot. Went on an opening day duck hunt to Jamestown area from fargon, slept in the truck so I could get an early start, and had everything I needed...except the gun, which was back at the house. Opened the garage door 3/4ths of the way, ducked to go in, forgot to carry in what I wanted, promptly turned around to go get it and smacked my head on the 3/4ths opened garage door. Got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, pitch black in the house so I was walking with my arms out like a zombie to feel for the open door....which I found when the door went right between my outstretched zombie arms and popped me square in the nose. Now I walk with crossed arms when I get up in the dark. Unfortunately, the list goes on, and on, and on. I'm fraught with dumbassery.

 

[WormWiggler]

as a young boys, we used to hit .22 shells on a concrete block with a hammer... no idea where the lead went. Took an axe to the face... caught my braces and tore them off my teeth a bit but cut nothing... boy this list could get long cause that is before I discovered alcohol.

 

[bucksnbears]

I'd run this forum outta bandwith:;:rockit

 

[guywhofishes]

It was Christmas Eve. I couldn’t sleep so I picked up my phone and checked out NDA. Lo and behold, a thread titled “Dumbass.” Within a moment or two of clicking on it, I realized it was 90 seconds of my life I was never going to have back. The dumbass was me.

75% of your posts I read, I think, how high is this guy right now........

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BTW........it’s trashy to post threads with swear words in the title. I swear more than I’d like to admit, but I don’t do it here.

sometimes threads that set people off have me scratching my head

this is one of them

you two related or something?

 

[Fishmission]

Squirted tape cassette cleaner in my eyes one day thinking it was Visine. I was driving down a back road in Alaska. Temporary blindness and much pain.

 

[Skeeter]

Got married. Worst day ever

 

[lunkerslayer]

Giving my name to someone who I only knew on a website thought they were good people and to find out they thought that looking me up and going to run me through the mud would make me feel bad. Lol if they only knew how my past has no effect on me today.

We can only laugh, shake our head, and be grateful it could have been worse. Many generations won't get to pull stupid shit like us and only get a scar to remember what it was like. I have a little scar under my left eye because I was trying to shoot at the head of a splitting maul with my red rider lever action by gun with the compass in the stock but bb hit the handle and bounced back, hit about an inch below my eye, I should have lost my eye I will never forget how close I came to losing my eye

 

[Maddog]

Playing with fireworks as a kid, I picked up a silver salute that failed to explode.

Guess what went off in my hand?

Luckily my hand was undamaged. My hearing is a different story.
My left ear rang for over a week. To this day I have severe tinninitis in my left ear.

 

[sdtransplant]

Heard one time ,that ignorance is a sign of stupidity , think that is where we all went wrong, never thought of consequences

 

[Fritz the Cat]

My wife asked me to take her to one of those places where the chef prepares the food right in front of a person. So I took her to Subway. That is how the fight started.

 

[Rowdie]

As a kid I loved throwing rocks, and if a bird showed its ass anywhere in our yard a rock was soon on its way. Finally, one day a line drive rock struck home and knocked that sumbitch right out of a tall elm. That mfer didn't go 20.