OT - One lucky Frenchman

[perry owens]

Has his hi-viz vest on so he's obviously very safety conscious.
http://www.buzzmoica.fr/video/l-abruti- ... usil-29714

[piller]

Maybe not safety conscious enough. He almost kicked the bucket there. Never look into the muzzle when there might be a round in the chamber.

[C. Cash]

Ouch! Do you think that was real? I would think that that dude would have been more concerned with his eyeballs than the blast to his forehead. Seems like not enough blast and his hat almost gets pulled off. Hmmmmm.......have to watch again.

[gamekeeper]

[Booger Bill]

Total fake video! He fired twice. Then he trys to shoot twice more. You can hear him pump the gun twice and click on empty and then set the rifle down and peek down the bore. The action hasnt been worked again, NOR has the trigger been tripped by hand. If that isnt a fake video, them honduni has come back to life!

[olyinaz]

It's a pump shotgun and he got two misfires right? The last one he looked down the barrel only to learn something about hang fires!

Why do some of you think this is fake? What am I missing??

Oly

[C. Cash]

I looks contrived. With the supposed hangfire, there's no smoke as with the first two shots, and the blast of high power rifle point blank in the eyes......I don't think he would even be standing, and would have been more worried about his eyes than the bridge of his nose, if that was a real blast. The hat could have easily been zinged off with a piece of fishing line. It's possible that it's real, but some things just don't add up.
PS: And the most telling fact: he's French and doesn't flinch on his last two shots.

[Booger Bill]

Olinaz. Watch the video several times more. It took me a bunch of times before I caught on.. Again, twice he works the action and fires at bottels. Then he twice more works the action and only gets a "click". As he works the action those last two times, NO shell fired or unfired comes out! Notice the fireing pin also has been released because we heard it click. The action HAS NOT been pumped again before he looks down the barrel. That means the fireing pin HAS NOT been recocked! Any shell had two times failed to be pumped out if stuck. Probley next to impossible. On top of all that what normal person would target practice at bottels with a shotgun at 10 to 15 feet? What possible action fired the shotgun when he set it down to look at it? His finger never was on the trigger, any shell fired or unfired should have been pumped out with two trys, the fireing pin wasnt recocked, the video is total bogus BS for whatever reason. Probley for bad PR for gun lovers and hunters. You could stage the same thing by stopping and starting a camera, useing a shell with the lead shot removed, putting in the fixed shell, haveing shot the brim of the hat before hand and haveing a buddy with a bamboo pole and fishing line pop your hat off at the same time as the staged accidental shot. Besides I noticed a interupted blur just before the shotgun went off when the film was pieced together just a micro secound before the accidental round went off. Took another bunch of views to see that too.

[Booger Bill]

By the way, I first seen this video I think, on the S&W site a couple days ago. It showed his cap with a hole through the visor after what was showed on this video. Now just who is going to make a video to show someone fireing with a shotgun at bottels at 10 feet? Uhhh, Him hero! As my dad would say.

[Sixgun]

I really think that frenchman is trying to get people to feel sorry for him so he can go out and buy some snails to roast and spread on his toast. Thats what they get for not letting us fly over their snail infested land.

[geobru]

I really think that frenchman is trying to get people to feel sorry for him so he can go out and buy some snails to roast and spread on his toast. Thats what they get for not letting us fly over their snail infested land.

Jack,
I have french heritage and when they would not let our planes fly over french airspace when they but the bomb on Kadhafi's door step a decade or more ago, I disowned them. The only French peope that I would give a nickel for are those who live in Normandy and are still grateful for what the American GIs did there in WW2.

[gundownunder]

He re-cocks the gun twice before looking down the barrel, and you want to believe that he had both a hangfire and a stuck live round in the chamber at the same time and he didn't blow his head off when it discharged. The hat zips off into space and there is no smoke like there was with the first two shots. It's BS, big time.

[C. Cash]

Darn I thought I would get at least one chuckle on my french flinch comment........tough crowd! Try the veal, I'll be here till Thursday......

[Ysabel Kid]

I've seen a pump racked several times, appeared to be empty, and then fired. Bottom line, you NEVER look down the business end of any firearm unless you personally have inspected the chamber, know it to be empty, and have made sure the gun is empty.

Perry, I love you tag line there!

[1894c]

ouch--I mean ouch--wow--:(

[claybob86]

First thing that tipped me off is that the camera operator just continued to roll the "film" instead of dropping the camera and providing assistance.

[olyinaz]

First thing that tipped me off is that the camera operator just continued to roll the "film" instead of dropping the camera and providing assistance.

Which is what tipped me off to the thought that the camera is on a tripod...

Oly

[claybob86]

Tripod? Oh. I guess the slow zoom-out had me thinkin there was an accomplice behind the camera, but that could be done in the computer after the fact.

[Booger Bill]

Man, this thread has taught me a lot about observation and testimonys from witness`s! At first it looked plausable. Then I must have watched it another 20 times since and read others observations. Lets see:
1. No smoke on the third shot like on the first two.
2. The action is cycled twice and misfired twice.
3. The gun go`s off without being recocked and no finger on the trigger.
4. If a buddy was filming it, he had nerves of steel to not lay the camera down and try to assist?
5. If the above wasnt true, why would the shooter have a tripod to witness his marksmanship at 15 feet?
6. I would think at the angle of the shot it should have at least blew his nose off!
7. Come on! A shell stays in the chamber after the action is worked twice?
8. A hangfire that is about 15 secounds long?
These people must have a agenda against guns! I probley missed some other facts, anyone have more?

[FWiedner]

I think it's staged. Like some kind of hunter-safety training video or something.

Personally, I think the guys head would resemble a canoe more than a bruised melon after this particular negligent-discharge.