Thread: it can happen to anyone! Please be safe

In keeping with the thread title - when I first got my FAL a couple decades back, the firearms instructor running the test told us all the the previous instructor had to quit as he'd accidentally shot his mate in a hunting accident (non-fatally), thinking he was a deer. I think he thought it was a useful example to share, however it didn't instil a lot of confidence that being a firearm safety 'expert' made you any safer in the bush...