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Years & years ago, while dove hunting I had to ... go. I laid my shotgun across the top of my stool, safety ON with the barrel pointing away from me. When I came back to sit down, my leg brushed the stock of the gun as I stepped around the stool. The gun pivoted and swiveled off the stool. The gun stock hit the ground first with the barrel pointed up at my chest. Obviously it didn't fire and I knew the safety was on but it scared the ... well I'd already taken care of business but it scared me plenty. Never again? Since then, I never step around a firearm that is not in my immediate control. I also never set a long gun across something where it could pivot ever again.

Nobody saw this happen and I've been too embarrassed to tell this story before now. Still shake my head when I think of it.