Getting burned by hot brass?

[tyeo098]

Ex of mine came from a work interview and was dressed is a low cut blouse (she was.... well endowed).
By some miracle she didnt get any down her shirt (CZ75 or AR-15), and the RO even let me pick up brass from behind the line after they had closed.

Turns out the top button of her blouse had come undone, and he was probably enjoying the show!

 

[Darkbob]

When I was younger, my buddies and I would occasionally try hit each other with hot .22lr brass.

None of us got any permanent scars, but we all did the "Hot Brass" dance a few times.

We were idiots.

 

[RFMan]

I typically and wearing enough stuff to keep from getting brass burns...

That said, the only miss I had in the next-to-last M1 match happened when brass from the shooter to my left landed on top of my BOLT as I was squeezing the trigger in offhand Startled me a bit when my entire sight picture disappeared!

 

[chicharrones]

Man up and let it sizzle!

I got scars from doing that.

 

[Slamfire]

Back in the day, when Garands were the service rifle, I talked to a bud who went to Camp Perry in the early 60's. One of the first things he did was go to P. J. O'Hare's and buy a Campaign Hat.



If you have ever shot a Garand Match, the M1 rifle tosses brass in a 360 degree sphere. I got burns when hot cases got between my coat and neck. The big Campaign hat helped deflect brass and that was one reason people used them.

 

[dmurdach]

Hot brass?

Im not a big tough guy or anything, but in my misspent youth 2 guys would put their arms next to each other and drop a lit cigarette between them, the first to move lost.

So a piece of hot brass every now and then doesn't really bother me.

 

[Kynoch]

I just don't stand where the brass is falling, even when I RO. I did dump hot M60 blank brass down a guy's shirt one time. He danced funny...

Each gun is different though -- often even guns of the same make/model. I have let my guard down while RSOing only to be smacked in the face with brass (not really a big deal so long as the brass does not get hung up) by the next shooter.

 

[Kynoch]

Back in the day, when Garands were the service rifle, I talked to a bud who went to Camp Perry in the early 60's. One of the first things he did was go to P. J. O'Hare's and buy a Campaign Hat.



If you have ever shot a Garand Match, the M1 rifle tosses brass in a 360 degree sphere. I got burns when hot cases got between my coat and neck. The big Campaign hat helped deflect brass and that was one reason people used them.

Yeap, I have had brass deflected by large brimmed boonie hats.

 

[rogerstg]

Scarf like things. I forget the tacticool name for the things.

One brand is "Buff". We use them for fishing all the time. They could easily be used to protect collar openings from hot brass. Buff pictures

 

[CLP]

A 22lr shell that wedges itself at the elbow between your forearm and upper arm is about as bad as brushing the backside of your hand against a freshly ejected 120mm aft cap.

 

[royal barnes]

Our SWAT team was training with Marine Special Ops in 1983 and I was going through the combat course shooting an M-16. I had no experience with this rifle being in the army during the M-14 days. I was wearing a standard helmet and flak jacket over a t-shirt. About halfway through the course I felt something really hot on the right side of my neck. Two pieces of 5.56 brass had ricocheted off the helmet and wedged between my neck and the flak jacket. The corpsman peeled the two casings off my neck with a scalpel. I am left handed and I think this was before the built in deflectors on the black rifles. I have two scars about 2" long and the diameter of a shell casing.

 

[Lex Luthier]

It happens. It also makes an awesome story.

 

[akarguy]

I wore a boonie hat to Appleseed. When prone I was getting shelled by a left handed shooter on my right dumping 223/556 brass out of this AR. Never had an issue with his brass landing all over and around me. I wore long sleeves and the hat kept the brass from hitting my face and neck. ......and with my $115 Marlin 795 with $30 scope I out shot his AR. Rifleman- yeah!

 

[brickeyee]

Crew neck shirt.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Those little bottom eject Browning 22 rifles would send hot brass down your shirt sleeve if you weren't careful.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Wear shooting glasses that fit as closely to your forehead as possible, or for that matter, even safety goggles that completely seal it. Who cares what it looks like. This allows no space for a case to fall into and get wedged. Any pistol can toss the odd case back at your head, but if it does it consistently, it needs to be repaired.

 

[Randy in Arizona]

One time I got some brass brands I thought rather neat.
I was firing a friends M60 LMG left handed for S&G and ended up with a cluster of case mouth brands on my right forearm.
Didn't hurt, just sorta neat.


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[shuvelrider]

At a rifle qual range in the Army, one of our female soldiers got a hot piece of brass down her uniform blouse. It got hung up in her cleavage, jumped up and did the dance and shake. We as RSO's tried/wanted to help her , she eventually shook it down and out under her t-shirt. Was funny at the moment, she had a good laugh about it afterwards.

 

[TheVision]

M1 knee

Any tips, tricks, insights would be appreciated.

Don't wear shorts. During the 200 yard rapids:

I still won, but that story might be a better fit for the "Tall Tales" thread.

Greg

 

[chicharrones]

Geez, and I thought I was blind before.

Please, someone bleach my eyes.

 

[Cee Zee]

The worst for me is hot brass in my shoes. I wear my shoes loose fitting most of the time. It's a good idea to tighten them up before shooting or wear long pants at the least. But when sitting down sometimes long pants aren't enough.

 

[Warp]

All I do is wear pants, shoes or boots, a T-shirt, safety glasses/sunglasses, and (when outdoors) a baseball cap.

*knock on wood* I haven't had rifle brass go down my shirt yet, only pistol and .22lr.

Being cognizant of where brass is going or likely to go of course helps when you are RO or observing.

 

[samort457]

Its even worse when your a lefty shooting right handed guns

 

[StrutStopper]

Before my club improved its lane dividers, a really tall guy was shooting in the lane to my left and it was raining brass. I was catching a good amount in the hood of my hoodie that I was wearing, and I decided after a while that wearing the hood would prevent some of the hot brass issues I was experiencing. That's when a couple of us came to the conclusion that it was entirely possible that the whole gangsta hoodie thing might not be a fashion statement, but PPE for drive-bys to keep the brass outside of your clothes.