Rustler
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I participate in Cowboy Action Shooting and have just come back from the Ambush at Mill Creek where I shoot myself in the face (well sort of)!
Not directly in my face but from a ricochet that came straight back at me and slammed into my upper lip. It felt like the size of a Boulder and had the force of a Mule Kick…
For those of you that don’t know - Cowboy Action is about the old west and the guns of that period such as single action revolvers, lever rifles, and double barrel shotguns. Targets (the bad guys) are solid and knockdown steal using lead bullets.
I was shooting my first pistol and first shoot – bang clang (good), next shoot, bang clang – what the hell just hit me in the face!! I’m stunned, dead stop (pistol still held in safe direction). I wonder how bad this is and reach up with one hand to my mouth and feel it is still there and so are my teeth! I kind of snapped out of the paralysis I was in and knew I had to finish the stage!!!
My hand comes away bloody but I was still alive and had a face and teeth – The rule in a big match is once the first round goes down range you are committed to the stage and you get any misses added to your score.
That was only my second shot out of 24 and I would have had to absorb 22 misses at 5 seconds each. No way!
Since I shoot one handed (Duelist style) I kept one hand on my mouth to hold the blood and continued to shoot that pistol, the next pistol, rifle, shotgun and finished the stage with no misses! I did leave a blood trail from the “bad guys” at the Ambush…
The timer operator said he say the round coming back - my friend, the guy I was sharing a room with did not jump in front of the round to save me!
I was lucky; but the most important thing I learned from this was --- do not shoot with your mouth open or you may “eat some lead”!
Sometimes you just need to Cowboy Up –
Not directly in my face but from a ricochet that came straight back at me and slammed into my upper lip. It felt like the size of a Boulder and had the force of a Mule Kick…
For those of you that don’t know - Cowboy Action is about the old west and the guns of that period such as single action revolvers, lever rifles, and double barrel shotguns. Targets (the bad guys) are solid and knockdown steal using lead bullets.
I was shooting my first pistol and first shoot – bang clang (good), next shoot, bang clang – what the hell just hit me in the face!! I’m stunned, dead stop (pistol still held in safe direction). I wonder how bad this is and reach up with one hand to my mouth and feel it is still there and so are my teeth! I kind of snapped out of the paralysis I was in and knew I had to finish the stage!!!
My hand comes away bloody but I was still alive and had a face and teeth – The rule in a big match is once the first round goes down range you are committed to the stage and you get any misses added to your score.
That was only my second shot out of 24 and I would have had to absorb 22 misses at 5 seconds each. No way!
Since I shoot one handed (Duelist style) I kept one hand on my mouth to hold the blood and continued to shoot that pistol, the next pistol, rifle, shotgun and finished the stage with no misses! I did leave a blood trail from the “bad guys” at the Ambush…
The timer operator said he say the round coming back - my friend, the guy I was sharing a room with did not jump in front of the round to save me!
I was lucky; but the most important thing I learned from this was --- do not shoot with your mouth open or you may “eat some lead”!
Sometimes you just need to Cowboy Up –
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To make matter more interesting he had to drive to Tractor Supply to buy a suture kit, and the only one he could find was for a cow.
