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Here's mine.

My wife's family has 300 acres with a house about 30 miles east of Nacogdoches(sp?). Just about everyone has keys and can go out anytime provided they let Grandma (it is her land) know before hand. My wife an I go out there several times a year. It is a great place to get away from everything, plus I can shoot off the back porch.

We were up at the land for the week. My favorite place to shoot is a the bottom of the hill near the creek in the old garden. The back of the hill is a great backstop. Most of the time I walk down, but this time I drove down in the S-10 we had then.

At the point I had only been shooting a few months (still no excuse). I was shooting my new Glock 23. As had become my habit, when the shooting was finished, I would drop the magazine, rack the slide to make sure it was empty, then pull the trigger.

Well, for some reason I changed the order. Racked slide, dropped magazine, and BOOM! Gun did just what it was supposed to do when the trigger is pulled. I had removed my hearing protection. It scared me silly! After my ears stopped ringing, I replayed what I did to figure out where I went wrong. That's when I realized that when I pulled the trigger, the muzzle was not pointed in a safe direction. I has pointed it about 3 inches over the hood of my truck. I almost killed my truck!

Now, I don't know if a .40 S&W at less than two feet would have done any real damage to the engine, but all I could think was that I had almost killed the truck at the bottom of the hill and we would have been stuck out there.

That was a learning experience. I am much more careful about where my muzzle is pointed and about checking to make sure a round is not chambered. Now I would also me more concerned with where the bullet went than what could happen to the truck.