Ok. . . Here goes. here is My dumbass story. One evening I broke out my recently purchased Ruger 9mm. Cleared the weapon, pulled the magazine out, and removed the round in the pipe. After cycling the slide a couple times, dummy me decides to put the magazine back in then pull the slide back to place a round in the pipe. Instead of pulling the slide back with my thumb and fore finger, I pulled it back with my palm and four fingers (the portion of my palm opposite of my thumb was hanging over the business end of the slide) oh . . did i mention that my trigger finger was, yes, on the trigger? As the slide went forward I heard a loud bang. And felt a huge pain. Thought to myself . . Dumbass. The description of a red hot Sledge hammer was pretty close as to what it felt like. Don't want to feel that again.