DLrocket89
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Hi everyone,
Had a safety whoopsies today I thought I'd share.
I shoot USPSA Production with a CZ75 SP-01 Tactical that I modded out pretty extensively (pretty much anything that Cajun sells is on it). I did all the install myself, so after a full season and probably 3k rounds downrange, I wanted to see how the internals were holding up, plus give the pistol a complete "deep clean". (Sidenote - everything inside looks the same as it did after 200 rounds when I put all the Cajun parts in).
I had the pistol receiver stripped completely bare and then went to hose it down with Birchwood Casey Gun Scrubber. Good stuff, I've used it to great success elsewhere. So, I tied a string through some part of the frame so I could avoid getting the cleaner on my hands. I started spraying away...about 10 seconds into it, the stream of the cleaner rebounded and shot full bore into my not-safety-glasses-wearing left eye.
I've never felt a burn like that in my eye. Fortunately I was doing this at my mothers house, and she's a nurse of about 30 years experience. The water rinse wasn't doing any good...as I'm sitting there shouting about how much it hurt my mother asked me if what I was using was oil based. Yeah, probably, it's petroleum distillates. Without hesitation, she puts a bottle of Dawn dish soap in my hands. "I know it sounds crazy, but wash your eye with dish soap".
Never before today did I expect it would feel good to intentionally shove soap into my eye, but holy smokes did it feel good and work well!! Apparently Dawn is good for this, they advertise that they donate soap to help animals in oil spills...apparently it's gentle enough that it doesn't hurt wild animals, or your eyes much.
My eye was red for awhile, put some allergy eye drops in 10 minutes later, as all was well.
What I learned today? Pretty much every activity you do with a firearm should be done with safety glasses on. Even cleaning the bare reciever that isn't even in the same room as the barrel and slide. And always trust your mother, even when pure crazy is coming out of her mouth, lol.
Dustin
Port Washington, WI
Had a safety whoopsies today I thought I'd share.
I shoot USPSA Production with a CZ75 SP-01 Tactical that I modded out pretty extensively (pretty much anything that Cajun sells is on it). I did all the install myself, so after a full season and probably 3k rounds downrange, I wanted to see how the internals were holding up, plus give the pistol a complete "deep clean". (Sidenote - everything inside looks the same as it did after 200 rounds when I put all the Cajun parts in).
I had the pistol receiver stripped completely bare and then went to hose it down with Birchwood Casey Gun Scrubber. Good stuff, I've used it to great success elsewhere. So, I tied a string through some part of the frame so I could avoid getting the cleaner on my hands. I started spraying away...about 10 seconds into it, the stream of the cleaner rebounded and shot full bore into my not-safety-glasses-wearing left eye.
I've never felt a burn like that in my eye. Fortunately I was doing this at my mothers house, and she's a nurse of about 30 years experience. The water rinse wasn't doing any good...as I'm sitting there shouting about how much it hurt my mother asked me if what I was using was oil based. Yeah, probably, it's petroleum distillates. Without hesitation, she puts a bottle of Dawn dish soap in my hands. "I know it sounds crazy, but wash your eye with dish soap".
Never before today did I expect it would feel good to intentionally shove soap into my eye, but holy smokes did it feel good and work well!! Apparently Dawn is good for this, they advertise that they donate soap to help animals in oil spills...apparently it's gentle enough that it doesn't hurt wild animals, or your eyes much.
My eye was red for awhile, put some allergy eye drops in 10 minutes later, as all was well.
What I learned today? Pretty much every activity you do with a firearm should be done with safety glasses on. Even cleaning the bare reciever that isn't even in the same room as the barrel and slide. And always trust your mother, even when pure crazy is coming out of her mouth, lol.
Dustin
Port Washington, WI