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Charles L. Cotton wrote:If any of you folks want to learn to fly a tail-dragger

My first CFI, years ago, "made" me learn in an old C142 taildragger. His words were, something to the effect of, "son, If you can learn to take off and land in this thing you can do it it anything".

I consider him a very wise man.

OK. Let me be the first to actually tell a GUN story. :)

I was carrying IWB with my Tucker Texas Heritage Special and I had my shirt tucked in. I was at work and I went into the restroom stall for part of my morning ablutions. Just after I start to drop my pants I hear a loud splash and very much louder thunk of metal on porcelain. I turn and look only to see my $600.00 Inox Cougar in the bottom of the toilet. Now, if it was a Glock I could understand that it was simply trying to get home but with a Beretta, that's just wrong.

My shirt tail hooked onto the handle of my Beretta dumped it right in.

Luckily it was "before" and not "after" so I just reached in and grabbed that sucker. Also it was lucky that no one else was in the restroom cause that may have required some explaining.

Anyway, I pulled the mag and water hadn't even got inside the thing so I just wiped off the exterior and all was well.

Just one more thing to watch out for in this wonderful 2nd ammendment world of concealed carry.

Anyone else want to admit something this ridiculous?

TDDude wrote:Now, if it was a Glock I could understand that it was simply trying to get home but with a Beretta, that's just wrong.

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are. (And I'm a Glock man!!)

I bet the 1st thing you did when you got home was to clean your Beretta like it's never been cleaned before!

Yeah, flush the Glock. Is your Beretta ok?

No scratches?

Glad everthing came out alright!

shaggydog wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:If any of you folks want to learn to fly a tail-dragger

My first CFI, years ago, "made" me learn in an old C142 taildragger. His words were, something to the effect of, "son, If you can learn to take off and land in this thing you can do it it anything".

I consider him a very wise man.

Just wondering, Where did this thread come from? Where did the quote from Charles come from?

Also, I have never heard of a C142...There is an aftermarket conversion for a Cessna 152 called the Texas Taildragger, or a classic Cessna taildragger, the Cessna 140..But never heard of a 142! :) Just wondering, maybe I can learn something...

After a thorough cleaning, I hope your next step was to order a proper holster, so that your shirt tail can't draw your gun accidentally.

I always remove my firearm and set it on the tank or on top of the big paper dispenser to avoid accidental drownings or worse.I'm glad you learned a valuable lesson and not at too much cost or embarrassment

iflyabeech wrote:

shaggydog wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:If any of you folks want to learn to fly a tail-dragger

My first CFI, years ago, "made" me learn in an old C142 taildragger. His words were, something to the effect of, "son, If you can learn to take off and land in this thing you can do it it anything".

I consider him a very wise man.

Just wondering, Where did this thread come from? Where did the quote from Charles come from?

Also, I have never heard of a C142...There is an aftermarket conversion for a Cessna 152 called the Texas Taildragger, or a classic Cessna taildragger, the Cessna 140..But never heard of a 142! :) Just wondering, maybe I can learn something...

Iflyabeech - I have no idea how this quote got into this thread. My post was in reference to Charles' post in another forum.

Also, I should not have written "C142". The plane was a C140A. Sorry bout that.

Shanggydog

Thats cool. I was just wondering..Here is an old photo of me in the old days clipped from a video in a Cessna 140.

TDDude wrote:My shirt tail hooked onto the handle of my Beretta dumped it right in.

KBCraig wrote:After a thorough cleaning, I hope your next step was to order a proper holster, so that your shirt tail can't draw your gun accidentally.

I disagree. I have both Texas Heritage and Answer holsters. I won't say they are the 'best' holsters, but they are certainly very near the top of the list. The Texas Heritage is more comfortable than the Answer, but lacks the tension screws on the Answer.

It seems that TDDude has not yet mastered the technique of using the strong side hand to lower trousers by grasping gun and holster. Without this, any IWB can easily flip unside down and easily lose the gun.

Actually, I've been carrying for about 6 years now and have mastered all the little tricks to staying hidden, hugging friends, drawing from a tucked shirt in only two seconds, hanging my pistol on the coat hook in the stall....

In this case I just got lazy & wasn't paying attention. :)

The interesting thing was that after I pulled it out of the water, nothing inside was wet at all. It was only "under" for a couple seconds but it was litterally bone dry when I pulled the mag.

I don't know what he's eating but if it's turned him into a pistol factory i'll take a 1911 preferrably deburred i don't want you to hut yourself in the manufacturing process

dukalmighty wrote:I always remove my firearm and set it on the tank or on top of the big paper dispenser to avoid accidental drownings or worse.

+1

Sadly, many public restrooms are not equipped with hooks or toilet tanks or any place to put the handgun.

Also, the more a gun is handled, the greater the chance of something embarrassing or dangerous. There have been several stories about restroom ND's. At the very least, you may drop it.

Something that works for me is to twist the pants around until the holstered gun will fold inward, resting between my legs.