Derek 'Tex' Grebner: Man Shoots Himself In Leg (VIDEO)

Derek "Tex" Grebner, who describes himself on his YouTube channel as "a pretty unprofessional outdoors show host and an unbiased online gear reviewer," accidentally shot himself in the leg with a Kimber Pro Carry II .45 while drawing his weapon.

He's since uploaded the video to YouTube as a warning that "negligent discharges happen."

Earlier in the day, Grebner had been practicing "how to draw and fire from defensive retention" with his Glock and a different holster. On that particular holster, the gun is released by pressing a button with your thumb. This button, Grebner explains, is in the same location as the safety on the Kimber, the gun that he shot himself with.

"When I went to draw my pistol, I pushed down and took off the safety," he says in the video. "Then I pulled up. The gun did not release...so as I pulled up, I hit that, my finger curled into the trigger guard and I ripped a round through my leg."

Grebner was able to stop the bleeding before the paramedics arrived.

"Things just tend to happen," he says. "I just hope that they never happen to me again and I hope that they never happen to you."

At the end of the video, Grebner encourages viewers to join the NRA "to protect our rights."

WATCH: Video contains explicit language.

via Buzzfeed.

Comments

[ndmvc]

12:39 PM on 07/16/2011

Should be banjo music playing in the background. Way to go quick-draw. The picture of the man on the target clearly won that round.

[macmanchgo]

07:57 AM on 07/13/2011

Another example of why we don't need to play with guns, and we don't need to encourage other people to do the same thing. Accidents happen, and they often involve other innocent people.

[gn32olds]

05:41 PM on 07/13/2011

Just like Operation "Fast and Furious" was supose to do too.

[OsborneAnderson]

02:45 AM on 07/13/2011

It is a good thing he did not shoot his balls off. LOL.

[Lost Rights]

01:26 AM on 07/13/2011

Add this to the story yesterday about the Az rep who pointed her little pink gun and its laser site pointed at a reported, with no safety on, and what do you get?

[Pete Wood]

02:41 PM on 07/13/2011

You get the same assumption as you get when talking about all different types of people-gun owners-non gun owners-lawabiding citizens-non law abiding citizens........... SOME POEPLE JUST DO NOT HAVE A CLUE

[DickTater]

10:24 PM on 07/12/2011

Nice Shooting, Tex!

[TheSarge]

08:30 PM on 07/12/2011

It happens! When you move faster than your common sense you get hurt. He sucked it up and should use this video to teach how fast you can screw up.

[RosesForObama]

07:13 PM on 07/12/2011

SMH. Republicans. sigh.......

[barry444]

06:28 PM on 07/12/2011

What a genius

[Mr John Madison]

06:19 PM on 07/12/2011

I'm about as liberal as they come but I'm also a 44 year old man who is sick and tired of little boys who have no clue what a real man is about.
These "new age" kids today under thirty are basically chicks with dicks and I'm sick of them.

This guy made a mistake and showed how one can make a mistake while benefiting from its exposure. And that's okay. He's a real man. I've been shot and had my head split open and I didn't enjoy it and it basically bothered me. That's how real men react. And yes, I'm wearing flannel whilst I write this.

I believe any type of gun should be allowed by law for any citizen to own. I believe that even a convicted felon should be able to earn back his rights for gun ownership in consideration of his previous crime.

If everyone has the ability to carry a gun or in the very least the open law to possess a firearm there would not be so much crime, plain and simple. There would also be less violence in the manner of fighting as well.

I think it'd be great if we all had holsters like the old west but without the typical gun fight to settle scores. That's obviously an antiquated notion.
This guy shot himself and he's lucky it didn't hit an artery. We should be glad he's alive and basically well and able to help others in preventing mistakes.

[AirGunner]

08:08 PM on 07/12/2011

Thank you! Finally some wisdom in these comments! I myself am 14 years of age. Sure, I can take offense in you "chicks with dicks" statement, but I can see where you're coming from.

I'm glad this guy was so cool-headed about the situation. Instead of yelling, flipping out, and throwing the gun onto the ground(creating a risky situation) he calmly put it on the ground and stopped the bleeding. In our sue happy world, I would've expected him to try to press charges against Kimber. Thank the Lord we still have some common sense in this world.

[BurtR]

10:03 PM on 07/12/2011

when you had your head split open, was that in the region of the frontal lobe?

[DTree]

05:50 PM on 07/12/2011

Yeah, makes me think of all the folks who say "if more people had guns, we'd all be safer...." Yeah, right. How can you know you won't just have more people doing stupid stuff like this? And that would be the least of it.

[nicko68]

02:04 PM on 07/12/2011

I carry a gun, cause Cops are too heavy!

[valentsgrif]

02:03 PM on 07/12/2011

Wow! I guess just gun owners have accidents while practicing. OOOhhh, there must be something intrisically wrong with them. I guess nobody ever dumped a motorcycle, or crashed car or fell off a horse or surfboard, or burnt down a building cooking or whatever. What infantile fear and loathing displayed on here.

[skinsqb17]

05:01 PM on 07/12/2011

the accident was a striking example of how the whole self defense with guns meme is not NECESSARILY correct. sometimes all you end up with is a gunfight, one which the responsible gun owner may or may not win. my brother has been in a hunting club for the past 30 years, he agrees with me. he also agrees that 30 round clips and automatic weapons, "war weapons" he calls them, should not be readily available to anyone who wanders into a gun show.

[barry444]

06:29 PM on 07/12/2011

Luckily for you, they're not.

[AirGunner]

08:11 PM on 07/12/2011

I guess your brother is one of those "if they don't do things my way, no way." I say if you want to use an AR-15 with a 100 round drum, then that's your decision. Your was to live isn't always the best way to live.

[The Lone Stranger]

01:06 PM on 07/12/2011

If you watch the slow mo, it looks like the bullet actually just grazed his leg.

[The Lone Stranger]

01:05 PM on 07/12/2011

People who own guns are 23 times more likely to be shot than people who do not.

Now we know why.

[valentsgrif]

01:57 PM on 07/12/2011

made up dorm room statistic.

[Set to Jet]

03:25 PM on 07/12/2011

I have posted this before, but:

American Journal of Public Health - family members that had a history of buying a handgun from a licensed dealer were twice as likely to die in a suicide or homicide as were persons similarly situated who had no such family history of gun purchase. This increased risk persisted for more than five years after the handgun was purchased.

The New England Journal of Medicine - having a gun in the home made it nearly three times more likely that someone in the family will be killed.

Archives of Internal Medicine - with one or more guns in the home, the risk of suicide among women increased nearly five times and the risk of homicide increased more than three times.

Shooting Sports Retailer (yup, a pro gun publication) - guns in a home used for self protection are not hung over the door but are more likely in a desk drawer or beside the bed in a night stand. When a child is hurt in a firearm accident it is often the self defense gun that was found, played with, and ultimately fired by the youngster.

The FBI's Crime in the United States - for every time in 1998 that a civilian used a handgun to kill in self-defen se, 50 people lost their lives in handgun homicides alone.

[Pete Wood]

03:43 PM on 07/12/2011

your stats come from where??????????????????????????????

[skinsqb17]

05:02 PM on 07/12/2011

that's really grown up of you. dismiss the stats but the reality is that guns in the home most often end up being shot at a friend or a relative, not an intruder.

[gn32olds]

05:44 PM on 07/13/2011

From a S.F. liberal rag.

[Tom Elliott]

01:02 PM on 07/12/2011

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute
lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it
with a bloody lip at worst.
The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of
the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field
is level.

The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian
as it is in the hands of a weight lifter.
It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both
lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but
because I'm looking to be left alone.
The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't
carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It
doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason,
only the actions of those who would do so by force.
It removes force from the equation... and that's why carrying a gun is a
civilized act.

By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.)

So the greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed
and can only be persuaded, never forced.

[Roy Shastid]

03:01 PM on 07/12/2011

That would be Somalia!

[skinsqb17]

05:04 PM on 07/12/2011

even in a bar, major? if so, why did some of the most violent towns in america's "old west" prohibit firearms inside the city limits?

[Pete Wood]

05:29 PM on 07/12/2011

As a gun owner you SHOULD KNOW "guns are not allowed in any bar." A truly informed individual you are..