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| It's not a bad gun it just did bad things. |
My dad is a gun person in fact of possession more than in use, but a
gun guy nonetheless. He owns about twenty different guns and
literally tens of thousand rounds of ammunition. He used to go
shooting with his friends and his boy scout troop and we could come
along. Many times we would get involved in a shooting contest with
the older boys and mostly hold our own. We mostly shot .22s either in
the 10/22 rife or the Rugar 22 pistol which is a semi-auto that
works differently than most semi-auto pistols. In many pistols the
action and the barrel both move to allow room for the spent shell to
be ejected and the new on to be injected into the firing chamber. The
Rugar only moved the back part of the action back and forth and the
barrel remains completely still. That means that is moves farther
back because it is not double acting. This actually does matter in
context of this gun wound to the head story. We were out at the gun
range by which I mean the gravel pit. Everyone was trying to hit eggs
to see who was the best shot and Matt and I were trying to teach the
older boys a lesson. When Matt was up he started out good shooting
fine but to better his aim he started moving the gun just a little
closer to his face with each successive pull of the trigger. After
one shot we heard him scream and blood was running down his face so
we naturally thought that he had been hit with a ricochet and was
dieing. Everyone ran over to him and my dad looked him over and saw
that somehow he had a nicely rounded half-moon wound right between
the eyes and that blood was pouring down each side of his face. It
was quickly deduced that he had been struck by the back of the action
as it ejected a shell and that he was basically okay just a little
bleedy and rattled. I was really glad that he was okay my heart sank
through the ground when I thought that he had been hit with a bullet
and might die.
