Interesting Accident

[BillinOregon]

Tac, I had the very same thing happen to me once while shooting winter indoor league bullseye. The hot case left a second-degree burn just below my eye. Also got one down my shirt once. It's kind of like having a bee in your drawers ...
:shocked2:

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

Also got one down my shirt once. It's kind of like having a bee in your drawers ...

Bee in your bonnet to be sure! Once witnessed a young lady get a hot piece of brass, from a blowback 9mm pistol, down the front of her shirt :shocked2: - OUCH! She sure was a spirited lil' thing ...

 

[Baxter]

Your post is interesting; I've always made the assumption that shooting-type glasses with polycarbonate lenses were something of a basic standard, tinted or not and relied upon them. Typically inexpensive and easy to find in many places, they seem a bargain. I've never seen any with "side-protection" but I will start looking. I've given several pair away at the ranges to other shooters, especially kids whose parents "had no idea that.." baxter

 

[Asher]

Reminds me of the story my dad told me about the time he was shooting his Garand, standing, while a guy was bench firing a few feet away from him, leaning over the bench. My dad was popping off a round every second or so, and out of the corner of his eye he sees the guy next to him stand up and start dancing around. Turns out, one of his hot .30-06 shells had landed inside the guy's belt, where your beltline pooches out away from your back if you're leaning over something. When he stood up, it dropped all the way into his britches. :applause:

Another friend got a hot .30-06 shell dropped behind the tongue on top of his tennis shoes, lodging there, and burning him badly on top of his foot. :shake:

 

[M. De Land]

I used to be in a weekly indoor pistol match and you could rent custom guns at this range to try out.
I was firing a magazine full and heard an unusual sounding discharge report in the stall next to me. I glanced over to see the fellow bent over holding his hand to his nose which was quickly filling with blood. When he looked up at me his shooting glasses and bridge of his nose were completely fragged with bits of brass from a .45 acp case that slam fired.
He had to go and get the brass extracted from is nose but his safety glasses absolutely saved both of his eyes!
Keep in mind the pistol was fired at arms length not up under your chops like a rifle would be.
I have been hit numerous times with flash hole discharge from a shooter to my side that has forgotten to put up a barrier between his firing position. This is where the side shield on some safety glasses pays the freight. Mike D.

 

[Rokon]

Just received the Smith Optics AEGIS ARC glasses.

Simply unbelievable the way they cover your eyes and wrap around the sides of your exposed eyes.

PLEASE get them or something equivalent in terms of MIL-SPEC optics.

 

[ChrisLJ]

Glad to here you like yours as much as I like mine. They also make inner frames for prescription lenses that attach to the nose piece. I recently got them but haven't had the lenses made because they seem to be rather small and look quite dorky. Not sure if I will or not.
http://www.smithoptics.com/product...ety+RX+Program/Interchangeable+Rx+System/view/

 

[Dean2]

Remind me to never shoot anywhere near where you are. In 50 years of shooting I have never been hit with a ricochet let alone a half a dozen of them. If I were you I would give up shooting and start buying lottery tickets before you run out of luck completely.

 

[Dean2]

You raise a great point. I have worn glasses all my life. From shooting to welding, grinding, riding in open vehicles or motor bikes and even cutting grass, it is amazing how much stuff they have kept out of my eyes. Shooting without glasses, or hearing protection is just a bad idea. Eye transplants are rare, and very expensive, and fixing hearing is even tougher.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Funny, It sounds worse than it really is. Its simply a matter of sheer numbers. none of them were from a muzzleloader I incorrectly stated cap-n-ball earlier it was a 45long colt(must be getting old ) when you shoot between 30,000 and 100,000 rounds per year over a 20 year period and a lot of them at steel targets your going to get hit. its math not bad luck! heck the highway is still more dangerous than shootin.

 

[kaintuck]

I used to shoot steel silhouette with 44mag. the FMJ were the best for a knock down.....and it did happen one day....the 50yd chicken went down with my shot, but a wizz-buzz-thump sound, and at my feet was a bullet buried into the dirt 1".....by the looks of the bullet, it had hit the base, and glanced off it, to the chicken as it was falling....HOW it had enuff energy to go into the dirt at my feet?????
my math isn't that good to calculate the energy transfer or odds~~~

anything can and will happen!

 

[mike garner]

when i was a kid i heard of a story that a man in our county shot a bulldozer blade with a 30-06, the bullet was thrown back by the curve of the blade and killed him. i don't know if it was true but i would never shoot one to find out.

 

[Billnpatti]

I used to shoot in bowlingpin matches. One day I was sitting at the scoring bench writing down shooting times. I was sitting in the standard position with one knee pointing one way and the other knee pointing in another direction. "Boy Land" was far too exposed and when one of the shooters bullets hit the edge of the steel bench on which the pins were sitting, it came back at me striking where we least like to be struck by anything. It knocked me off the stool and I thought I was going to be singing in the boy's choir for the rest of my life. It scared the heck out of everyone. The spent bullet didn't break any skin but was stuck in my jeans. I saved the bullet so I could prove to anyone who didn't believe that I had been shot in "Boy Land" by a .44 magnum and was able to walk away.

 

[Grizzled Roberts]

I do a LOT of historical stuff do for years I used the polycarbonate lenses. They always got scratched up and picked up hot stuff from shooting flintlocks. On the advice of a good friend I switched to glass lenses. These are heavier than the plastic ones but my primitive glasses are small so the weight does not matter. Nothing sticks to the glass lenses.

 

[Wes/Tex]

"...and was able to walk away" or was it limp away, Bill? :rotf: I took a Nolan Ryan fast ball foul off the nose of home plate back in highschool and let me tell you, it's limp or crawl!! :shocked2:

 

[Billnpatti]

At first, it was crawl then it was limp. When I got home, the "boys" were swollen and that scared me but the swelling went down and I was good to go again.

 

[ChrisLJ]

The summer before last my wife bought me one of those Caldwell rifle gongs that has a 10 armor plate hanging from a square tubular steel frame suspended by heavy chains. It's supposed to be used at 100 yards, but the directions didn't explicitly state that it couldn't be used closer.

Soooo, I decided to set it at 25 yards and use my .380 pistol. All was well until I heard a whiz and something hit the trees behind me. It appeared that one of those FMJs ricocheted off one of the S hooks, went up through the seam and did a 90 degree turn headed my way. That was the end of that. :shake: :redface:

 

[tom deinek]

Did you seek medical attention? If not too personal, what care was given?

Did you have the rebounded missile made into a key chain talisman?

Glad you're all right.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I used to shoot in bowlingpin matches. One day I was sitting at the scoring bench writing down shooting times. I was sitting in the standard position with one knee pointing one way and the other knee pointing in another direction. "Boy Land" was far too exposed and when one of the shooters bullets hit the edge of the steel bench on which the pins were sitting, it came back at me striking where we least like to be struck by anything. It knocked me off the stool and I thought I was going to be singing in the boy's choir for the rest of my life. It scared the heck out of everyone. The spent bullet didn't break any skin but was stuck in my jeans. I saved the bullet so I could prove to anyone who didn't believe that I had been shot in "Boy Land" by a .44 magnum and was able to walk away.

Now thats a story worth telling.

 

[Billnpatti]

Just ice packs but no trip to the doctor. The swelling went down in a couple days. So, no medical attention. No apparent permanent damage done. Just painful.

I still have the bullet in my gunsafe. It is just in a small box but not made into anything. It doesn't look like anything special, just a smashed jacketed .44 cal bullet. But it sure is special to me.

Thanks for the concern.