Have you ever been injured while shooting?

[Benton]

On my first outing with my S&W 686, my first revolver ever, I took a bite that taught me something about all revolvers. It was 1985 when many were teaching to put the index finger of the supporting hand around the front of the triggerguard of your semi-auto. I'd taken to this unhelpful practice with my 1911, SIG-Sauer, and Beretta and reverted to it when I tried some quick shots with the .357 Magnum. Unused to the feel of the gun, I curled my finger around the front of the frame below the ejector rod housing and took a fierce cylinder gap blast. Nothing more serious than the scare, but that was 17 years ago and wee shavings of lead are still visible through the skin in the crook of my left index finger.

 

[Arcli9ht]

Red Ryder, lever open... twice... *hangs head in shame*

Also, a bud of mine from school shot a friend of his in the head with a bb gun, had to have surgery to remove it cause it penetrated the kid's temple. (Wasn't there, so its only a second-hand story)

/Arcli9ht

 

[P95Carry]

Great selection!!

Well ....... apart from the ubiquitous hot cases .........

Copper jacket fragment came back and bit me after shootin an ole factory .303 round into a scrap axle casing! I did stand a bit close!

Right hand web bloodied by careless single handed grip on Redhawk with very hot load.

Damn near fractured right cheek bone from using my Enfield 2 band musketoon (M/L) ..... damn thing requires real close contact between face and comb when sighting .... kicks like a mule too! use a pad now.

I too have received a ''bounce back'' lead bullet from target area ..... damn, those things are still travellin!

 

[blades67]

Other than a few minor burns from hot cases, I did get a hang nail once.

 

[PaP]

I used to take lessons in combat handling and tactics from a member of our local SWAT team. Once when firing from various versions of the prone position, I changed mags and when I fired again I had my thumb behind the slide on my Kimber Ultra Carry. The slide split my thumb and peeled it right down to the bone. A painful reminder that sometimes an extra half second before firing to be sure of everything such as hand position is not always a bad thing.

 

[standingbear]

yes.. a m11 pistol.i bought it "new" from a shotgunnews ad.the first shot blew the barrel apart(2nd round was live and shoved up in the chamber) and also the guts in the upper-luckily i wear glasses or maybe it could have blinded me,looking at the pieces,it looked like cheap pot metal parts(the hammer was in pieces),wounds not serious,just little cuts everywhere-what really hurt was the reply from the dist. that sold the gun,no warranty.told i was SOL..lastly,an old revolver,looked like an old nickled s&w, used to kill a train robber in 32 cal(as the story goes),was my uncles gun and given to me along with an old ballard singleshot 44 rimfire rifle.the revolver s cylinder became loose and sprayed my knuckles with lead.not bad but sure stung getting those tiny pieces out with tweezers and rubbing alcohol.

 

[JPM70535]

Running an IPSC type match on a 25 yd. indoor range shooting at a pepper popper, I got hit by a ricochet. the distance to the steel was approx. 10 yds. It broke tha skin and caused some minor bleeding. Glad it hit my leg instead of my eye.

Other than that, just the usual hot brass down the shirt, and oh yes, almost forgot the infamous M-1 thumb. I only did that one 1 time.

 

[Bonker]

I was hurt pretty bad in high school. My Marlin 22 Mag bolt action blew open and the casing split.
The magazine blew out and pulled one screw out of the stock. The screw was replaced and it's been shooting fine for about 15 years. I think I got some faulty ammo.

The resulting injury was a nice burn but the really bad injury was from unburned gunpowder getting under my skin in my face and hands.

It wasn't bad in my face but my hand was really messed up.

I spent 2 or 3 hours every night with a needle and tweezers getting each pellet out. It took about a month and was quite painful.

That's my only injury in probably a million rounds fired in my life.

 

[280PLUS]

web of hand sliced open by the slide on a baretta tomcat,

if you got a fat hand, don't buy one of those...

 

[Bonker]

I can't believe you wimps that consider it a real injury when you split the webbing in your hand!
If you don't have that happen once in a while then you aren't shooting the really fun guns!

My Anaconda will do that every time when loaded with my "special" handloads

You have to bleed a little to really feel alive!


I'd buy a 12 gauge derringer if they'd make one

 

[AK103K]

I'd buy a 12 gauge derringer if they'd make one

And I'll PAY to watch you shoot it!

 

[Stevie-Ray]

My Anaconda will do that every time when loaded with my "special" handloads. You have to bleed a little to really feel alive!
I'd buy a 12 gauge derringer if they'd make one

C'mon, tell us the truth. You're Ross Seyfried!

Come up to Michigan and you can fire my .45-70 Contender and try to keep the trigger guard from breaking your fingers.

 

[CWL]

Water blister under eyelid from hot brass landing between glasses & eyes. Blooded hand webbing from mil-spec M1911 hammer bite.

Took a shooter who "used to be in the Army" shooting long guns.
He didn't brace his shoulder on my .308 rifle and punched a 1/2 moon gouge into his eyebrow with the scope. I had to clean him and my scope up afterwards -

 

[Bonker]

"Come up to Michigan and you can fire my .45-70 Contender and try to keep the trigger guard from breaking your fingers."


Man I'd love to do that! The most painful handguns I've ever shot were a Taurus 454, my Anaconda with kamikaze handloads, and a thomson encore in both 308 and 30-06....OUCH!!!

I've shot a contender in 223 and it was a beast too.

 

[cratz2]

My Springfield Loaded Stainless Target that I love so dearly and gloat about to no end and praise every chance I get... well, it did have one little problem. I took it out several times, probably 8 or 10. Then I took a friend that's pretty bright guy. Doesn't really care a whole lot about shooting but was interested. He's a very vast learned so I was giving him advanced pointers at the same time I was showing him the basic stuff, just whenever it poped into my head. At one point, after shooting a couple rounds, I said, "And if the slide failed to return completely to battery, give it a little tap on the back like *this* '. Let me tell you something - the back of that little Springfield fake Bomar sight is one sharp thing! I had a little 3/4" cut across the bottom of my left palm with a little visible notch in it I kid you not!

So, a week or so later I had a local guy round down the front and rear sight just a bit and radius the trigger just a little bit. Now it's my favorite handgun.