Hot brass burn - OUCH!

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The only gun that's ever spat brass in my face was the M16A1, even with that stupid snap-on brass deflector, it found a way. :cuss: (lefty)

I was there when Red Dragon got brassed in the face by the DE .50. Maybe they oughta adjust the ejector on that thing so it goes off to the side, instead of up and back. People's heads tend to be there.
 
The other unfortunate brass burn I got was back when I was in the Firing Squad in high school JROTC. we were doing a 21 gun salute for memorial day ceremonies held at the local cemetary and I was one of the shooters. at the second volley, the ejected brass from the kid next to me flew up and rested right on my collar. I figured it was best to maintain my professionalism and just deal with the pain until we were done. when I finally removed the brass, I had quite the nasty burn on my neck.
 
The first time i ever went shooting, i had the pleasure of shooting a Walther P88. I go through a few mags with no trouble, it sends the brass where they're supposed to. Now once we decide it's my brother's turn, i make the mistake of standing about where it's throwing them. First shot he fires, a hot 9mm straight down the front of my shirt. Thankfully, it was a pretty loose shirt and the brasss went right out the bottom. I don't like burns much.
 
one thing I enjoyed doing when I took my little stepbrother out shooting early this summer was catching the brass as they ejected and bagging them right away. I avoided burns by moving really really fast after I caught them.:D
 
Buddy of mine was shooting his Remington 7400 30-06. We are the only two guys at the range. I am sitting to his right, watching him shoot for a while. Lean back, prop my legs up on the shooting bench. Its Florida in the summer. I am wearing shorts.

30-06 casing sails from his rifle, 3 feet in a lofty arc and directly down my left pant-leg (short-leg?).

I do not think he will ever allow me to forget the louid scream and little jig I performed for about 30 seconds trying to wrestle that hot casing out of my shorts while my buddy is bowled over with laughter.
 
In addition to not wearing a low cut shirt, I do not advise wearing a bra at all while shooting. I have had hot brass get caught in my bra, was not able to remove it quick enough and have had nasty burns. But I hate wearing the stupid things anyway so it is just another excuse not to wear them :D
 
Nightcrawler
Heck that might get you a date! LMAO!

What is sexism is my company's dress code stating that it is required that women wear bras to work! :rolleyes:

I know that my "advice" regarding bra's and shooting may not work for every woman out there but if it prevents one other woman from going through what I went through, it's worth it! Because a burn there really hurts! :cuss:
 
Alright, Wendy, advice solidly taken then. I will not wear a bra to the range.

You hear that, High Road?? I'm not wearing a bra!

Hoo...this is so liberating...

But you want to talk about sexy? Cut myself shaving this morning, just a little nick under my right nostril. Well, seems there are a lot of capillaries in the nostril...sucker bled for over an hour.

So, there I was, walking to class, backpack fully laiden with $80.00 textbooks, a laptop computer, and my yuppie water bottle (suburban canteen), holding a wad of bloody toilet paper to my face.

"Hey...ladies...what's going on? Hey, how come no one's talkin' to me?"

:rolleyes: LOL
 
Nightcrawler
I am so proud of you for declaring that you are bra less! ;)

and OWWWWwwww that sounds painfull! :what:
 
Oh no! It didn't hurt! In fact, just when I thought it had stopped, due to the lack of pain, and put down my blood-stained cloth to type my notes, I'd feel a trickle going down my face. :rolleyes:

It's always the little ones that bleed like nuts.

I got it to stop within a couple hours. All I had to do was stick a little piece of tissue to the cut and go around with what for all the world looked like a cleaning patch stuck up my nose.

Like I said, sexy stuff. :D
 
I am not a big fan of the sight of blood :what:

that is why I try to prevent brass burns that could possibly lead to bleeding {like how I turned that back on topic? LOL ;) }
 
I am not a big fan of the sight of blood
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I ain't either; especially when it's mine.

like how I turned that back on topic? LOL
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Hmm...could this be a subtle hint to stop talking about my undergarments? ;)

ANYway...

Never had a brass burn that bled, though. My buddy Red Dragon did, though. Desert Eagle .50AE ejected the brass so that it flipped and the lip of the case cut his nose.

I was like, "Huh...never seen that happen before." Then I laughed and he hit me.
 
your damn right I hit you Nightcrawler. it hurt! it hurt like hell for such a small cut/burn/bruise, and the sadistic SOB that you are, you laughed at me. Yeah I hit you and if I could do it all over again I would dodge the brass and hit you anyway :neener:
 
ouch.

I was sporting one of those for the last two weeks from a .45 ACP casing that went behind my glasses and lodged between cheekbone and glasses frame.

I was proud of myself for calmly engaging safety, setting down gun, then yelping like a little girl and doing the "hot-brass dance"

:D
 
My range outfit goes something like this:

Hat

Safety glasses over regular specs

Tight, high-collared t-shirt, untucked

jeans, with snug belt

socks and sneaks

I had my shirt tucked in one day, and a fresh hot .45ACP empty went down the front. While doing the Hokey-Pokey and trying to remove said fresh empty, fell down inside pants........:uhoh:
 
my walther p22 likes to throw brass wherever i least expect it too. whats weird is occasionally it will eject it right onto my right arm, and it lays flat there, not bouncing off. but one day it tossed an empty up over my hatted head and down the back of my tucked in tshirt.
i calmly and coolly held the p22 in my right hand pointed downrange while doing the hot brass jiggle.

oh yeah, and wendy? this thread is worthless without pics! oh wait, i forgot, this is THR, not glocktalk......darnit!
:evil:
 
El Tejon and Aleko...

You got me beat. I got a .223 case behind my glasses over on Okinawa, but it didn't look particularly cool. However...one thing I learned after I started kickboxing is that chicks--ahem, women--in the office really dig a shiner. War face optional. :cool:
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Wendy :
In addition to not wearing a low cut shirt, I do not advise wearing a bra at all while shooting.
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Yeah, I had to stop wearing them altogether!

I think I still have a little scar on my side from when a .308 shell went down my shirt. That mother HUURRRRTTTT :eek:
 
With a M60A3 tank turret turned at an angle the M85 .50 cal machine will rain brass and links right down into the drivers compartment.
Trust me on this one.
 
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